John Bonham Robert Plant TV Interview - BBC NationWide 

This interview is from the same year as the Beatle's break up. At the time, the Beatles were essentially finished in a technical sense.

Well, Sir Paul McCartney is, with the incredible career he has had/has. Paul is probably the single greatest musical artist in UK's history. Paul is the Greatest promoter of "The Beatles" then, and now. But once the personality is gone someday, as will be the personalities gone someday, from all of these famous 70's bands, it will be interesting to see what 70's recordings the teens of 25 years from now gravitate to on their own vs. what grandpa or great-grandpa would influence them with. I say that to say that the love for the music of Led Zeppelin is organic. And it doesn't require big media, or morning or evening talk shows to keep it alive. By word of mouth, now through the internet, what's really good gets passed around. So we'll see, when the power of the personalities of these bands have all gone on, and there's just the musical record left. And we'll see what the real Legacy of these superstars are.

It is awesome to hear him. And it dawns on me that some of him comes out to this day when Jimmy is speaking.

The Deep Purple....

The Beatles The Who The Rolling Stones The Deep Purple The Led Zeppelin Yeah, whatever!!!

You haven't listened to the drum isolated Tracks? Fool in the Rain intro and then Whole Lotta love outro after the solo. That's him "talking".

But it shows he was a hell of a smart guy at just 22, I'm impressed!

Maybe.

Given all the cover bands today they were THE Led Zeppelin. The one that drove Zeppelin's wife mad.

That old fart was still breathing in2015? Blimey! I reckon that's wot a Brit would express?

Yep it sure is! That's why he can still sing today in his late 60's (and is still fucking hot young women)! Have you seen the 08 Zep reunion concert? He sang for two+ hours! Plant is widely considered one of the best vocalists in the history of music and that really must kill all of you anti smoking Nazi's!

not really...his voice changed a lot over the years. smoke is not the right therapy.

i was being facetious......

Saw them at Earls Court in '75 and most of the songs were tuned down even then. Loved the band but Plant was a disappointment. Ian Gillan with Deep Purple was better live.

I apologize :) I did't catch the meaning of your sentence. ;)

I don't recall whistling any rock songs, whether by The Beatles or otherwise. I guess whistling is a British thing.

D Anton thank you for elaborating that very subject. Seemingly, this "image" concept has again come full circle. Not at ALL about the art, but again image. Society beckons as ever. Dictators of the industry infiltrate art and society. Also, this is the very first time I'd ever heard John speak. Such an eloquent gentile and gentle young man. But an artist of his ilk, not sure why I'm surprised, but I am. :) A great loss to music. Another day the music died. Thank you for posting this interview. And trolls, I expect you at some juncture. So, I say, billy be damned. Bring on the trolls and enjoy my post! :) Feel free to vex me. Dazzle me.

You obviously read the wrong sources.

Very interesting observations. Quite revealing, too.

You went to a Beatles concert in the 60's to experience "The Personalities" but you went to Zeppelin concert to experience "The Music."

Who? Stones? Floyd?

@@chaosh7040 who is really anything stunning, Rolling Stones wanted to be The Beatles and would probably be not as popular if they weren’t influenced by them. Pink Floyd maybe would’ve been popular, but probably not. The Beatles did more than people think they did.

@@alien6812 Floyd didn't need the Beatles at all...the were a completely different genra of rock whose influence "Revolution 9" wouldn't exist w/out. It wasn't the Beatles talent that kept them at #...it was radio censorship only allowing broken heart songs/love songs/happy bubblegum music (the latter 2 being the complete early years of the Beatles) on mainstream radio...which is why it was just them & the Beach Boys at #1 in US & only them in England...because of censorship. Floyd definitely had some over the top stuff w/Sid Barret but after Gilmore joined they were destined to be heard & the Beatles were more influenced by them (although not publicly acknowledged...just in musical switch) than vice verse. Kieth Moon was the original thrash drummer ("My Generation" outro & a few other examples) & Who (like Zep & Floyd) just needed to wait for "mainstream" to be uncensored enough to start letting real music be played. Granted...Beatles musical switch in the later years left the censors in a tough place..."We've declared them #1 all these years & now they go & switch there music style to the same as all those other bands we've been keeping off the top to keep them at #1...guess we gotta starts acknowledging some of those other bands now". Was never really big on the Stones (some stuff ok but generally not that big of a fan)...just put them in because...but Floyd/Who/Beatles/Stones in that order for actual music talent IMO...but I've never been a big fan of what was allowed on the radio as opposed to the actual good music on the albums that was never allowed to be played...until it finally reached the 25 year mark & got classified as "Classic Music"...& even today it's the same 25 songs on each classic station played over & over w/about 25 other songs randomly switched each few weeks & thrown in for filler for the same 25 songs.

No American Invasion of the UK by way of WWII service member's LPs and acts touring, and no British Invasion. And No Elvis, no Beatles. Yeah, Okay.

Note Robert's Van Dyke goatee& mustache.This is probably early '70 before ever going to Wales and getting ideas down for LZIII. For 1970 and most of '71 all four members wore facial hair. I think Robert shaved first...

Touring is part of being the Greatest. The Beatles failed on that Big Time, but Sir Paul McCartney has done his share of massive touring after The Beatles called it quits.

this sounds like something a grump old man would say. there are rappers like that, you just don't know enough about music

Yeah, imagine a rapper using words.

So as The Beatles.

LZ was Music-Music. The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones were "Personality-Music." Good music, but you see the difference.

They would've anyway thrown them off. They beat their attendance records in a heartbeat too.

That was because they had far better equipment by 1970. You need to remember that the Beatles stopped touring in 1965. A lot happened in those 5 years. There's no doubt that they'd be selling out stadiums if they had played them too. In fact, they were the first to ever play a staduim-like venue.

PlsDetox No Elvis played those before them. The Beatles would not have lived on in the problem ridden 70s, they were way too chirpy and they had a relatively weak command over strong sound production and they weren't heavy enough for the large arenas that drew the audiences in the 70s. As they were saying, the personality cult was dying out. As more and more youngsters were making bands, just being a band was not enough for the beatles. Musicality and ferocity became important and the youth wanted to hear music more than the musicians. People and teenage girls particularly came to see the Beatles in the 60s. That charm had died out after a few years. Zeppelin's stadiums were so large most people couldn't see the band and were that far away. The beatles would've surely sold out audiences, but to imagine them out-seliing Led Zeppelin in the 70s is unimaginable. It's a testament to the fact that people will always support new artists over the same stale music. It is impossible that the Beatles could've been mainstream in the 70s.

Some Teeny pop award is pretty irrelevant but Zeppelin won it anyway because of the first two albums. Either way the Beatles and Zeppelin can only be compared based on popularity and what they did for music but to compare their musical styles would be silly, try to imagine the Beatles playing Achilles Last Stand

+PlsDetox Some of The Beatles most popular songs came out between 1968-1970. To say they were on their way out was a bold statement. Led Zeppelin is much more talented then The Beatles. Led Zeppelin knocked them out when they were still big, The Beatles couldn't have survived the 70's as a top group.

A shilling was 5p (12 old pennies). There were 20 to the pound. Groats were long gone by 1970 but they had been worth 4d, that is 1 2/3 p. Shillings stopped being referred to in prices in early 1971 when we "decimalised" (as the US had done 180 years before). So, instead of referring to 3/6 (three shillings and sixpence), we said 17 1/2p. (The 1/2 p coin disappeared in 1983 or so). Instead of £1 10s (also called 30 shillings), we said £1.50, as we do today. However, the shilling coins continued to be worth 5p until 1990 when the original 5p coin (first brought out in 1968) and the shilling coin, which was the same size but of an earlier design, were replaced with a smaller single 5p coin.

'Old squares' always put THE in front of band names. THE Pink Floyd was another one. 'Can you hum the tune?' was another old fashioned question. Interesting that John Bonham doesn't seem to have a Birmingham area accent. Robert Plant still does. It's not so apparent here. Maybe they are trying to hide it. In a BBC interview with Jimmy Page when he was a teenager he had quite a posh accent. Now he has a more generic London one.

Helen Trope Hah, so true! I remember when one of my sisters thought “Led Zeppelin” was a person.

@@heliotropezzz333 BTW...which one's Led?

@@chaosh7040 Led should get together with Pink (Pink Floyd)

@@heliotropezzz333 The Deep Purple...

The twits were too used the Pop countdowns of bands like The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. Zeppelin broke the Pop naming mold, as did Pink Floyd.

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A longer interview would have been nice.

Yeah, but giving the Beatles as an example of this is the most retarded thing I’ve heard anyone say.

@@alien6812 Indeed.

Blame Jimmy Page when Ritchie Blackmore told John Bonham that their material was a copycat, Bonham was upset at Page. I believe Jimmy have done this behind Plant, Jones, and Bonham's backs.

HumanRiff69 I think the Beatles were being Out Rocked and they knew it. Zeppelin, theStones, Hendrix, Cream, they were all Blues Bands. TheBeatles followed Chuck Berry and Little Richard while other bands copied Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. George didn't go Rock, he went Revival.

Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed

How many Beatle songs are featured on Rock Star Video Games vs. other bands??