Interview of Robert Plant (1990)

1990: between Led Zeppelin and Manic Nirvana

The 1990 conversation with Robert Plant places him between Led Zeppelin’s reputation and Manic Nirvana, the solo album he had released that spring. He laughs in the interview and still refuses the easy myth of the golden god. He keeps coming back to craft: rooms, habits, the work of a voice that still has to hold up on playback once the legend is set aside. The old band stays present as history, not as a script he is willing to read.