Robert Plant has admitted that fronting Led Zeppelin was "really nerve-wracking".
Plant discussed his time with the band in an interview with English radio presenter Mark Radcliffe on a recent episode of The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 2.
"I’d been what I call at the sharp end in these power trios with somebody glued on the front, which is how I quite often saw Zeppelin," Plant reminisced. "My contribution was what it was. [If] you think about it, the first songs that we wrote, John Bonham and I, we were 20 years old when Good Times, Bad Times was conceived. So you go back then and being the lone guy at the front and trying to get in amongst all that was a huge challenge and it was really nerve-wracking."
Plant also admitted that, while there's a great mythology around Led Zeppelin as one of the greatest rock bands ever to take the stage, not every gig the band played was "magnificent".
"Sometimes, as you quite rightly say, it was very, very tight and it was magnificent," he acknowledged to Radcliffe. "Sometimes it was quite the opposite because that was the great thing about that group, it was like the weather. It could be extraordinarily good or on the other hand perhaps not quite so magnificent. It wasn’t sent down from the gods every day, every week."
Last week, Plant's solo band Saving Grace feat. Suzi Dian released Chevrolet, the opening track on their forthcoming self-titled debut album.
The song is their take on Donovan’s 1965 Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness), originally released as the B-side to Turquoise in October 1965. That song was itself an adaptation of Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy’s 1930 Delta blues classic, Can I Do It for You.
