It's a sensitive delicate deal 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 Zephyers, 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 another episode in this series of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

My name is Matt Everett, I'm your host and I get the pleasure and honour of sitting down

with Robert Plant to talk about some of the music he's created in his career thus far.

From the very beginnings, so songs which pay tribute to his earliest influences to globe

struggling hits, underground gems, b-sides, a-sides, lost recordings and rarities, new songs

and collaborations, you know how this works now.

You've listened to a couple of episodes, if you haven't, you'll break it up pretty quickly.

This week we've got a collaboration, a collaboration that started, well it started in August 1968,

so this collaboration ended in 1980 with the end of Led Zeppelin.

In October 1994, Robert, a guitarist, Jimmy Page recorded a 90-minute show for MTV called Unledded.

It was recorded in Morocco and Wales and London and featured ZEP songs, but the approach

was more acoustic, more anchored in folk and blues and world music, kind of key parts of

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