Robert Plant admits he didn’t want to make a new album: “No more records”
Robert Plant, former lead singer of Led Zeppelin, has admitted that he thought it was the end of the road for his album-making career before the release of his 2025 LP, Saving Grace.
Chatting on the Rockonteurs podcast on the release day of his latest studio project, Plant admitted he felt “so much better” with the album out in the world.
Plant described the making of the album as a “surgical situation”, and admitted that “this day was never going to come because, originally, it wasn’t going to come.”
He elaborated, “No more records, that’s it! Just go to Camarthan, play the town hall. Go to Rhyl, play the old theatre there. Go where you want to go. Go to Hastings. Stay in that dodgy place up the road there, the hotel from hell…”
After they joked about juxtaposing this was the more “lavish” life on the road, Plant insisted, “Anyway, bottom line is, I never thought this was ever as a starter in my being. I just didn’t want to make… It wasn’t the end, it’s just like, that’s enough. I liked the idea of just willy-nilly playing, and I could play anywhere.”
In December, Plant will play ten UK shows in support of the release. He will begin in Portsmouth on December 8th, and make his way across South England, stopping at London’s Royal Festival Hall before zooming up to Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Middlesbrough, and Newcastle before finishing things off in York on December 23rd.
Far Out gave Saving Grace a four-star review, observing, “If you want tunes that are more in line with Led, feel free to pick up one of the copycats, but for me, Plant will always be better when he’s following his muse. Anyone can have nostalgic memories of tunes like ‘Tangerine’ or ‘The Battle of Evermore’ listening to this kind of album, but it’s always better to have the Neil Young approach and give the people what they didn’t realise they needed.”
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