It's a sensitive delicatial dragging brand new songs out of the sky, trading ideas,

accepting some, storing others in the maybe later bag, moving on and along with hardly a plan.

During the Zep years, I never imagined a full-scale album project without the other guys and even less the idea of new writing partners.

But then, since 1981, I've enjoyed many amazing exciting musicians in the sharing, in the writing, in production and engineering.

Men and women who encouraged and enlightened, introducing me to crazy curves I could never have imagined.

For this podcast I'm going to be picking out some songs from here and there along the way,

mixing constant shifts and sound and

intention from across this long old time. There's a story in all of them.

I'm Robert Plant and this is Digging Deep.

Hello and welcome to episode 3 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

I'm Matt Everett and thank you very much for listening.

This week's choice of song is, well, it's a big one and it's probably going to be one

you're familiar with but maybe you don't know the real story behind the song itself. I'm going to see. This is Achilles' last stand taken from Led Zeppelin's album, Presence, from 1976. It was a little more when they don't this we should know.

As I turned to you, you smiled at me, I could be say no.

It's a monster of a prospect. Why is this song on the list then I guess is the first question. Well with all of these

pieces of music you can separate them you can you can kind of carve the songs up

into performance, imagination, and the kind of weave that holds it, that kind of pulls it together, which could be melody, a repeat of a lyrical line or a guitar line or any kind of

of musical reference that comes back and pulls you back into stuff, you know.

Even Coltrane does that, you know, on Love Supreme or Blue Train. But, so with

Achilles' last stand, the music, I was so fortunate to be around so many amazingly gifted players and if you think

about Led Zeppelin as being a trio really with a kind of wedding singer stuck up the front.

That's, I always saw the reality of what was going on

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