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 Zepiers, 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 on 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.

Okay, we've reached the end, my friend.

This is the final episode in this series of Digging Deep with Robert Plant, and as is traditional,

we end with a kind of special show, not just the song that we're discussing, which is

a brilliant tune, but also all the other stuff, as you might know, we don't always just

talk about music.

And each finale of every series feels like the kind of end of a chapter, and the start

of a new one, which, what with everything that's been going on in the world, does kind

of feel emotional this time.

The song, though, is a proper killer, better background.

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