Robert Plant recently discussed the Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers’ tradition of playing Led Zeppelin’s songs.
“I’m very proud of that, except they’ve edited the thing wrong – I need to get in there and cut it up,” he explained. “But it’s a fanfare just before Jeff Beck’s ‘Hi Ho Wolverhampton’ [‘Hi Ho Silver Lining’].”
The club regularly plays songs like ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ and ‘Whole Lotta Love,’ there is a certain song Jeff Beck hated that they play — ‘Kashmir.’
“I used to call him up when they played that and he used to hate it profusely… he hated that song,” Plant admitted.
‘Kashmir’ wasn’t Beck’s favorite song. However, it seems that Plant feels it’s one of the few songs he calls ‘perfect’ in the entire Led Zeppelin catalog.
“I wish we were remembered more for ‘Kashmir’ than ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ It’s so right,” he once told Q Magazine. The singer continued: “There’s nothing overblown, no vocal hysterics. Perfect Zeppelin.”
Plant has also showered praise on the track on several occasions, including a 2018 conversation with Dan Rather. “It was a great achievement to take such a monstrously dramatic musical piece and find a lyric that was ambiguous enough and a delivery that was not over-pumped.”
Robert Plant is currently on tour. The rocker is scheduled to play on November 5th at the Royal Hall in Harrogate, England. After his tour in England is finished, the singer will have another tour starting on May 3rd in Brussels, and ending on May 23rd in Vilnius, Lithuania.
