Led Zeppelin and Oasis both developed a reputation for taking rock n roll excess to it’s extremes at the height of their careers, but when the two worlds collided in 2007, Robert Plant was eager to avoid a heavy night’s drinking with the Gallagher brothers.
The legendary frontman told Mojo magazine he was approached by Liam and Noel Gallagher following his band’s brilliant reunion show at London’s 02 Arena in the December of 2007 as part of a tribute concert for music executive Ahmet Ertegün, but was quick to pour cold water on any chance of a long night. “Twenty minutes after we finished, the Gallagher brothers were leaning on the door of my dressing room and one of them said, ‘You’re the real fucking thing, you are’,” he revealed. “I said, ‘I’ve known that all down the line – but I think you need to go a little further round the corridor, next door on the left.’ And I went.
I ended up in the Marathon pub, drank four bottles of lager and half a bottle of vodka then went to bed. Because I had to get away from it. I’d done it. Had to go. It was too heavy.”
Robert Plant will release the album ‘Band Of Joy‘ with his band of the same name on September 13th.
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