![]() During his career he also received several awards for his music and became one of the most important artists of the Indian subcontinent. ![]() He is remembered for his notable range and versatility. Mohammed Rafi was born in Bombay, India back in 1924 and became an influential playback singer and musician. So listen to this orchestration and stuff, it’s just magnificent and the food was great,” Robert Plant said. “It just epitomizes the extravagance of color and goodness knows what else about this era of Indian Bollywood music. So I used to knock on their door, instead of the family’s door and bring me a bowl of ghee and I’d just sit and listen to this music.” They were busy cooking dhal and frying up onions and spices, listening to this music. There was a gujarati family who lived the other side of the doorway. “My wife’s family was in a little street in West Bromwich. Mohammed Rafi “Raha Gardishon Main Hardam” During the following decade, in the 60s, he recorded original Jamaican Ska material for many famous producers. ![]() So this was one of my ever time favorites,” Robert Plant said.īaba Brooks was born in Jamaica in 1935 and became a trumpet player who played Jazz in the 50s with the Eric Dean orchestra. At the end of it all I ended up in the Casa Bamboo in West Bromwich with a bunh of west indians and a lot of Jamaicans just listening to the most deep Ska. “I’ve put bitumen on West Bromwich high street, drived the dumper and stuff. She was from a great anglo-indian family, they gave me a home.” “There I was, far from home and I met this magnificent lady who would later become my wife. Plant explained that he first heard this track during the time before Led Zeppelin’s success when he worked as a laborer. Other famous songs released by Wolf are “Smokestack Lightnin'”, “Killing Floor” and “Spoonful”. It was also was successfully covered by Jeff Beck. Written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by the legendary Blues singer Howlin’ Wolf in 1961, “I Ain’t Superstitious” became one of the most famous Blues tracks of all time. So this a Howlin’ Wolf song called ‘I Ain’t Superstitious,'” Robert Plant said. He’s magnificent, strong, powerful and his lyrics, I think came a lot from Willie Dixon, make his songs absolutely otherworldly. So I’ve chose this record because Howlin’ Wolf to me he is like the century of all of it all. “Birmingham Town Hall had several years of these remarkable visitations from musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter. He died at the of 38 in 1959 victim of a heart attack. Some of the classic movies he was part of were: “The Midgnight Kiss” (1949), “The Great Caruso” (1951) and “Serenade” (1956). He was a popular Hollywood star especially in the 40 ands 50s. This was the first song that did that to me,” Robert Plant said.īorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States back in 1921, Mario Lanza became an actor and tenor. So it would be something that made me just stop and feel the goosebumps. “When I was invited to do this program I started looking at something that I would say ‘wouldn’t be ‘Nellie The Elephant’, wouldn’t be the ‘Runaway Train’. Also some of his most famous tracks are ” Twnty Flight Rock”, “Summertime Blues” and “C’mon Everybody”. Cochran was active in the music business from 1954 until his death in 1960. The American Rock musician Eddie Cochran died too soon at the age of 21 in a tragic accident in the United Kingdom as pointed by Robert Plant. So this one now is called ‘Ping Peg Slacks’ and I really wanted to know what the whole deal was around the corner and ‘can I have some? Pink Peg Slacks,'” Robert Plant said. He recorded loads and loads of really provocative, very well produced songs. That April Eddie Cochran was killed in a car wreck in Chippenham. “April 1960 I was 12, nearly 12 and already something was knocking on the door. ![]() The song was released as a single by the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in June, 1970, only one month after the tragic events. The track was written by Neil Young after he saw the photos of the incident in Life Magazine. So this is the song that was written which will remind us forever how it can go nastily badly wrong,” Robert Plant said.Īs Plant said, “Ohio” is a protest song inspired by the Kent State shootings of May, 4, 1970. “This is a song that was written at the time following an event at Kent State University, Ohio where four students were shot by the authorities. The 8 songs that Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant said he loves Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Ohio” In an interview with BBC Radio 4 in 2022 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage), Plant listed the 8 songs that he would take to a desert island and explained why they are so important to him. ![]()
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