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Do you know if it's true if Robert Plant had drug issues? A friend of mine said he was the only one in the bad who did

He certainly was NOT the only one in the band with drug issues, however, if you were to ring Jimmy about it, you'd hear the phone slam.Robert seemed to be mostly a pot smoking hippie type, while Jimmy had cocaine, heroin, pot, alcohol, etc. Obviously, Bonzo's alcoholism butchered him in the end. Robert is very open about how much fun he had in his heyday, and who's to say that quaaludes and various other '70s drugs didn't make their way into his dressing room?-JayCee

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Prince - Whole Lotta Love (Cover)

As this blog’s tribute to Prince, here he is adding his own funky groove and incredible guitar skills to a classic Led Zeppelin song!

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Do you have the gifs of Robert Plant where dance with a girl on stage and she kiss him?

It’s here. And the original video is here. 

~ Ree

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Jimmy is epitomized in that scene in the ‘It Might Get Loud’ documentary where he’s listening to Link Wray’s “Rumble”, and he’s a child, and he’s so excited and enthralled by the magic of that record.

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John Bonham used to do a lot of, sort of, rap stuff. He would just get drunk and start singing things like what you hear in the beginning of ‘The Ocean’. He would stomp his feet, and his fingers would get going. I think he originally had some lyrics about drinking pints of bitter, you know: Now I’m feeling better because I’m out on the tiles.

Robert Plant, on how “Out On The Tiles” was written. (via fuckyeahzeppelin)

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In those days, we traveled in a station wagon on the first or second tour of America. That’s the best way to travel and also you could communicate. It got a little harder later. We were in San Francisco looking for the Fillmore. We were down somewhere by Fisherman’s Wharf in the fog in this Oldsmobile cruiser. Me and Bonham fooling around in the back and Jimmy saying, ‘Close the window. My hair, my hair!’ [laughs]

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I know you guys haven't been around for a while, but you do/have done a great job, don't put yourself down!!! xo

Haha that’s very sweet of you to say, what I mean is with being away from this blog, Tumblr and indeed Zeppelin altogether from the best part of two years means I have to rely on my shaky memory to answer things, but the blog does let me throw the question out to the far more knowledgeable and on the ball people who can help out!! 

Cheers,

~ Ree

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do you happen to know when Jimmy Page started smoking?

The earliest picture I’ve seen of him with a cigarette is this (there is another from the same series but I’ll just post the one), taken by Pennie Smith on Wandsworth Common in September 1974:

I haven’t seen any pictures of him smoking prior to this (there are quite a few band photos where the other members are holding cigarettes and he isn’t) however I don’t know whether or not he smoked in private. Interestingly I’ve not seen any pictures in 1975 of him smoking…they emerge from 1976 onwards.

As I keep saying nowadays every time I get an ask, I’ve been out of the Zep loop for a while so my memory isn’t what it was…if anybody has any better info please let me know!

~ Ree

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ETA: Please see this very helpful info from a kind anon who should clearly be running this blog instead of me! 

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I think he smoked privately before. There’s this quote by Dibgy Smith (Island Studios tape operator) “…big orange Lockwood cabinets on wheels, as big as Page was - and he was leaning on one of them with a cigarette in his mouth. …” This was during the recording of Stairway to Heaven which was in Dec 1970. Also, one of the groupies said that he wasn’t seen smoking PUBLICLY in the early days. And there’s the story where he apparently started chain-smoking on a flight to annoy a stewardess in 76/77

That’s really helpful, thanks very much for this. I was fairly sure he’d have smoked at some point (weed if not anything else) but had no concrete evidence. 

~ Ree

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do you happen to know when Jimmy Page started smoking?

The earliest picture I’ve seen of him with a cigarette is this (there is another from the same series but I’ll just post the one), taken by Pennie Smith on Wandsworth Common in September 1974:

I haven’t seen any pictures of him smoking prior to this (there are quite a few band photos where the other members are holding cigarettes and he isn’t) however I don’t know whether or not he smoked in private. Interestingly I’ve not seen any pictures in 1975 of him smoking…they emerge from 1976 onwards.

As I keep saying nowadays every time I get an ask, I’ve been out of the Zep loop for a while so my memory isn’t what it was...if anybody has any better info please let me know!

~ Ree

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Then, those transvestite have nothing to do with Robert?

As far as I know the "well known" transvestite story is that one surrounding Jonesy which I addressed in my previous answer, but if you or anyone has heard differently/has more info let me know!- Ree

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Can you tell me the story of transvestite written in the book of Stephen Daves?

John Paul Jones has explained it in his own words, and I think that’s far more worth reading, here.

The relevant quote:

“SPS: Oh, maybe a song named after the Royal Orleans hotel …JPJ: Oh, that was Robert in his usual homophobic manner. I don’t know what … You see, the only trouble with that book [Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis], that stupid book was that it got all its facts wrong. It got all the stories the wrong way around. Part of that, it wasn’t funny. I mean, some of the stories were actually hilarious, but the way the book reads is, “What a bunch of miserable bastards we are!” But no, I mean, everybody knew who those people were. They were friends of Richard [Cole]’s. And yes, we knew they were transvestites. We were friends. Her name was … Her name was … Stephanie! We’d see her every time we’d go to New Orleans. But Robert was a bit provincial. They weren’t like big city boys. They don’t like all that sort of thing. Richard and Jimmy and I … They were friends of the band, for God’s sake, you know. And then this idiot, Steve Davis, gets it all mixed up. I mean, OK, so we were in our room, drinking, and probably fell asleep, and I[clears his throat] found the room full of firemen!”

Cheers,

 - Ree

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