Robert Anthony Plant was born on 20 August 1948, in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England
Robert Plant, center row, middle
He grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age.
Robert Plant and his baby sister Allison, 1962
When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten-year-old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old… I think! And I always wanted to be a curtain, a bit similar to that
Robert Plant and his baby sister Allison, 1959.
I suppose I was quite interested in my stamp collection and Romano-British history. I was a little grammar school boy and I could hear this kind of calling through the airwaves
He left King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys in Stourbridge in his mid-teens and developed a strong passion for the blues,
He abandoned training as a chartered accountant after only two weeks to attend college in an effort to gain more GCE passes (General Certificates of Education) and to become part of the English Midlands blues scene
“I left home at 16“, he said, “and I started my real education musically, moving from group to group, furthering my knowledge of the blues and of other music which had weight and was worth listening to”
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin with his baby sister Allison, 1959
Robert Plant (center, in white), with Roger Beamer, John
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