Robert Plant has joked that if his musical career ever reaches a dead end, he will happily fall back on his Elvis Presley impression.
Speaking to Mojo magazine, the Led Zeppelin legend reflected on life after the band’s 1980 split and the unexpected turns that have shaped his career.
“Well, at the end of my first formative period, I was in what you’d loosely call the biggest band in the world,” Plant said. “Because of its terrible finales, I got suddenly launched into that post-Zeppelin thing where I went, I’m never gonna play any Zeppelin stuff again.
But I was on my own, and Atlantic, Ahmet (Ertegun) and people like that were saying, ‘Why don’t you put the band back together?’ I said, ‘Look, I’ve made a record called Shaken ’n’ Stirred. Nobody likes it, but I like it. Nobody liked Zeppelin, but we liked it.’
And if it ever gets to another point where it’s not like that in my quantifying of it, then I’m lost. I’ll just be an Elvis impersonator. I’m really good at doing Elvis.”
