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'''Jimmy Page and Robert Plant''', both formerly of England|English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the title '''Jimmy Page & Robert Plant'''. The pair re-united in 1994 and, after recording a highly successful first album, they embarked on a world tour. They then recorded a second album before disbanding shortly after. | '''Jimmy Page and Robert Plant''', both formerly of [[England|English]] rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the title '''Jimmy Page & Robert Plant'''. The pair re-united in 1994 and, after recording a highly successful first album, they embarked on a world tour. They then recorded a second album before disbanding shortly after. | ||
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the title Jimmy Page & Robert Plant. The pair re-united in 1994 and, after recording a highly successful first album, they embarked on a world tour. They then recorded a second album before disbanding shortly after. OverviewAfter years of persistent rumours, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant finally reunited. In 1994 MTV approached Plant with proposals for an acoustic show in the Unplugged series. Earlier there had been initial plans for a reunion which made in 1993, with talk between the two of collaboration|collaborating emerging from casual small talk and then an invitation to perform on MTV Unplugged. Music producer Bill Curbishley, who had been managing Plant since the 1980s and who assumed management of Page in 1994, was integral in the reuniting of Page and Plant. Despite failed attempts by others to reunite the pair, Curbishley was able to persuade the previously reluctant Plant into working with Page again.[1] Accounts vary as to whether John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones was not invited or not interested, but Page and Plant started to develop a partnership of their own. In an interview he gave in 2004, Page recounted the background:
Plant's recollection of the reunion was:
UnleddedLed Zeppelin's main songwriters reformed on 17 April 1994, as a part of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton, England. On 25 and 26 August, they taped performances in London, Wales, and Morocco with Music of Egypt|Egyptian and Music of Morocco|Moroccan orchestration of several Led Zeppelin tunes along with four new songs. The performances aired on October 12, and were so successful commercially and artistically that the two coordinated a Concert tour|tour which kicked off in February 1995. The Unplugged performance was released as an album in November 1994 as No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded. Their tour took them across the world with a lineup including Charlie Jones (musician)|Charlie Jones playing bass guitar|bass and Percussion instrument|percussion, Michael Lee (musician)|Michael Lee on Drum kit|drums, Porl Thompson temporarily performing guitar and banjo, Najma Akhtar providing backup vocals, Jim Sutherland on mandolin and bodhrán, Nigel Eaton hurdy gurdy, and Ed Shearmur playing Hammond organ with orchestral arrangements. Page:
Page and Plant were on tour more or less continuously for a year from February 1995, taking in the US, Europe, America again, Japan and Australia. As the tour progressed, they included more and more Led Zeppelin songs in their stage set. Walking Into ClarksdaleIn 1997, they hired indie rock producer Steve Albini to work on their collection of new original songs. It was the first time Page chose to work with an outside producer. Page and Plant with their core touring band entered the studio to record Walking into Clarksdale, an album of updated AOR rock. Despite excellent reviews, this album was not as commercially successful as Unledded had been, and the Page and Plant reunion slowly dissolved, with both members going on to perform with other side projects. Their final tour concert was at the Concert for Amnesty International on 10 December 1998, Paris, France. In an interview he gave to Uncut (magazine)|Uncut magazine in 2005 Plant recounted:
Page and Michael Lee tried to interest Plant into continuing with the partnership, by going into the recording studio for much of early 1999 with new material recorded. As Page explained:
They briefly reunited once more in July 2001 for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Notes
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