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Plant Back In The Day

E! Online reported:

Are you ready for sex & drugs & rock ‘n’ roll & pomp & circumstance? Well, you better be, because Led Zeppelin screamer Robert Plant has something new to shriek about: He’s been made a Commander of the British Empire by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, according to reports.

The “Whole Lotta Love” singer follows in the well-worn rock star path of Paul McCartney,Mikc Jagger and Elton John that leads from trashing hotel rooms to playing nice at the Palace for an honorary knighthood for “services to popular music.”

Kudos to Sir Bob. Still, while we hesitate to suggest that he’s buying a “Stairway to Heaven,” it should be noted that the taxes paid on Led Zeppelin’s 200 million albums sold probably helped grease the wheels. 

Curiously, as a CBE, Plant now outranks his Led Zep bandmate Jimmy Page, who earned his one-notch-down OBE four years ago.

We wonder whether Plant will lord it over Page if Zeppelin reunites as rumored to fill some London dates on what would have been the Michael Jackson tour. Could be a riff-tastic rivalry. Plus, a couple of Rock ‘n’ Roll Knights filling in for the King of Pop? It works for us.

Page and Plant Rocking Out

Plant now outranks fellow Zepplin member Jimmy Page.
Well Plant actually kidded about the whole thing and being a step above Jimmy Page:

“If we can remember each other’s phone number at this time in life it’s a miracle,” he joked. “We’re still good friends, we both enjoy a rather dark sense of humor that comes, I think, from being from rather the wrong side of the tracks for all those wild years.”

I had to find out what the honor of CBE was all about. After I read the first paragraph, yawning ensued and I started thinking of what to cook for dinner. But in case you are interested, click here and read all about it at Wikipedia.  But in short, it is a British honor of chivalry and presented to someone for national order of merit. I guess Plant’s days of throwing TV’s out of hotel windows are now OFFICALLY over. *snicker* 
John Lennon had an interesting view about the MBE award, (different from Plant’s CBE):

 ”Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people”. He continued: “We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more”
As always, John was never afraid to speak his mind.

Led Zeppelin was a big part of my music collection back in the day and still is. My sister had Robert Plant’s name spray painted on her bedroom ceiling, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Sadly, I never got the chance to see Led Zeppelin. They are still doing shows today, but Plant did not participate in the reunion tour last year. Rumor has it that he was working with American Bluegrass singer Alison Krauss instead. Bluegrass and Robert Plant? Well he did do Sea of Love with the Honey Drippers way back when,which was a 50’s classic and far from the norm of rocking songs we were used to hearing from Plant.
To me, I will take Robert Plant belting out Dazed and Confused any day. Although I think the Lemon Song might be a bit of a stretch for Plant these days. (sorry Robert!) 
Plant is Commander of the British Empire now and still one of the best rockers in the universe. As always and forever, I still Got A Whole Lotta Love for Sir Robert Plant.

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