ROBERT PLANT MOOD’S AND MOMENTS
Now a full five years removed from Led Zeppelin’s breakup following drummer John Bonham’s untimely death in 1980, Robert Plant, in 1985, is a singer feeling his oats.
September 1, 1985
On one level, it is a fairly accurate barometer of Robert Plant’s continuing status as one of rock ’n’ roll’s most popular lead singers that in 1984, when he put out The Honeydrippers, a record made up exclusively of cover versions of old blues, pop, and R&B classics, the thing not only zoomed to the top of the charts as the first-ever mini-LP to crack Billboard’s Top 10, but did so with nary a cover credit in sight—this on a disc featuring not only Plant, but former partner-in-stomp Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Nile Rodgers and a host of other certified heavies.