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Robert Plant
Arts, Music & MediaWho is Robert Plant in the Agency editorial?
Robert Plant is an English singer and songwriter, known as the lead singer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Issue.14, the edition about music, names him in its section on Led Zeppelin as the author of the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven and comments on the song's final verse.
In short
Robert Plant is an English singer and songwriter, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin. In the Agency editorial he appears only in Issue.14, in the section on Led Zeppelin. The edition says that in 1970, sitting by a fire in a cottage in the English countryside, he wrote in a single afternoon the lyrics for a riff that Jimmy Page had composed, and that he reported being inspired by the nature around him and by Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Reading the final verse of Stairway to Heaven, the author writes "Robert Plant broke the matrix" and says the true message of the song was unity.
Key facts
- Who is Robert Plant?
- An English singer and songwriter, known as the lead singer of the rock band Led Zeppelin and as the author of the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Robert Plant?
- Only in Issue.14, the edition about music, in the author's prose of the section on Led Zeppelin. The author also addresses him as "Mr. Plant".
- What does Issue.14 say about him?
- That he wrote the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven in a single afternoon in 1970, inspired by nature and by Tolkien, and that his true message in the song was unity.
Who is Robert Plant?
Robert Plant is an English singer and songwriter, born in 1948. He is known as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, the rock band in which Jimmy Page played guitar, and as the author of the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven. These facts come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does Robert Plant appear in Issue.14?
In the section on Led Zeppelin, Issue.14 says that in 1970 Robert Plant was sitting by a fire in a cottage in the English countryside and wrote, in a single afternoon, the lyrics for a riff that Jimmy Page had composed some time before. It adds that, in an interview for the book "Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored", by Richard Cole, he reported being inspired by the natural beauty around him and by the mythology of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
The author then highlights the final verse of the song and its line "to be a rock and not to roll", which the edition reads as a pun on rock and roll. He writes "Robert Plant broke the matrix" and says that Plant's true message in the band's most famous song was only one, unity. The passage closes by addressing him directly as "Mr. Plant".
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