Robert Plant Says He Sometimes ‘Missed the Mark’ in Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant Says He Sometimes ‘Missed the Mark’ in Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant reflected on how he sometimes “missed the mark” with his written material for Led Zeppelin.

In a new interview with Planet Rock magazine, Plant admitted that he felt like he moved in a different direction from other writers at the time.

“My peer group were writing substantial pieces of social commentary, and I was willowing along the Welsh borders thinking about Gollum,” he said. “I liked what I did, but now I look at it and go, ‘Wooh, that was a bit iffy.’ But I do like ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ I can look at it objectively. I can’t always get my head around it, but it does do something substantial.”

Read the full story on Ultimate Classic Rock.

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