Robert Plant Reveals What A-List Murderer Did To Him

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Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant discussed working with music industry legend and convicted second degree murderer Phil Spector on a new ‘Digging Deep’ podcast. Alternative Nation transcribed his comments. Jimmy Page recently revealed how he was savagely disrespected at a Robert Plant show.

Co-Host: The wrap on [Phil] Spector is that he’s an unpredictable gentleman, did you know that to be the case?

Plant: Well I didn’t live with him, I just spent time around him and Ahmet [Ertegun] and I guess it was, kind of, because we knew our stuff. So there was no gamesmanship or nothing like that, we were just kicking back and thinking about what Gene Pitney would have done next.

He also said:

Plant: Well, the whole concept of the Honeydrippers, it’s a very charming story. When Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler signed with Herb Abramson in 1968, they did a deal with Peter Grant and Led Zeppelin signed with Atlantic Records. The relationship, the thrill with that, if you like, of that coming together for all of us for our generation was to be somewhere near people who worked with Ray Charles, Aretha [Franklin], The Clovers, The Robins [who became the Coasters], Ben E. King, Clyde Mcphatter who was with Billy Ward and the Dominos and moved over to the Drifters for a while.

So, we were going into the “Hall of the Mountain Kings”, really. As the years sort of cascaded and flipped down through time, we really, really melded with Ahmet. I don’t really know if he did us any favors, I don’t really think he did at the time if I think about how the structure was in the game then, in the Sixties and the Seventies.

Robert Plant also discussed partying with some big names and a famous female singer on ‘Digging Deep.’