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Robert Plant
The voice and resident sex symbol of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant has enjoyed the most consistently successful solo career of any of the band's three surviving members. Born on August 20, 1948 in West Bromwich, England, Plant was raised on American rockabilly and R&B, and has injected liberal doses of both (along with elements of folk, world music, and even hip-hop) into his post-Zep endeavors. In the 1980s, he cracked the US Top Ten with 1982's Pctures at Eleven, 1983's The Principle Of Moments, and 1988's Now And Zen; Volume 1, a rockabilly and doo-wop EP recorded with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, also made it to #4 in 1984. 1990's Manic Nirvana and 1993's folk-influenced Fate Of Nations proved a harder sell, however, as Plant's aging fan base became more interested in buying remastered Led Zep CDs than in following the singer's latest musical adventures. That changed in 1994, when Plant and Page hooked up to record No Quarter, an album of acoustic Zeppelin songs with a few new Middle Eastern-influenced songs thrown in for good measure. A studio collaboration, the Steve Albini-produced No Quarter, followed in 1998, but little has been heard from Plant since then. |