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

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 welcome come in to sit down. This is episode 12 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

This is the last episode in this season.

As you probably know in this podcast Robert chooses a song,

one of his or a collaboration he's worked on or a track from one of his bands

and tells the story of that song's creation.

It's that simple.

So we've tackled some big songs in this series, Bones of Saints, like I've never been gone, Ohio,

Achilles' Last Stand, all of which can be heard now if you go back to previous

episodes.

But Robert has been waiting to talk about the song in this episode, and I think you might have

been waiting for him to talk about it as well. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, This episode concerns a song that looms large in your legend shall we say what are we choosing?

Well I don't know about looming large in my legend it sounds like alliterations

artful aid but I think I'd like to just

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