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Robert Plant

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PICTURES AT ELEVEN, SHAKEN N STIRRED, MANIC NIRVANA,
FATE OF NATIONS and MIGHTY REARRANGER will be released in expanded
& re-mastered format on Tuesday, March 20th. THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS,
THE HONEYDRIPPERS, NOW & ZEN and DREAMLAND will be released on
Tuesday, April 3rd in expanded & re-mastered format as well.

Plant began his solo career in 1982 with PICTURES AT ELEVEN. Backed by a
group that included guitarist Robbie Blunt and drummer Phil Collins Plant
created an eclectic mix of soundscapes that openly eschewed rehashing Led
Zeppelin's hard rock legacy. Peaking at #5 on the Billboard Album chart,
Plant's debut featured the single "Burning Down One Side." Playing with new
musicians after 12 years with Led Zeppelin was hard at first, "but it
turned out to be a lot easier than I had envisioned," Plant explains in the
liner notes. "I found I wanted to pour out my soul once the door was open.
From then on I was ready to work with anybody." The expanded version
includes a pair of bonus songs: "Far Post" and a live version of the album
track "Like I've Never Been Gone," recorded in Houston in 1983.

THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS, Plants' sophomore solo album, refined the sound
of its predecessor and built on the group's songwriting chemistry to create
a personal and intense collection of songs. The single, "Big Log," cracked
Billboard's Top 20 and became Plant's first solo hit. The album also
featured the songs "In The Mood," "Other Arms" and "Horizontal Departure."
The expanded version includes live performances of "In The Mood" and "Thru'
With The Two Step," a cover of Bob Marley's "Lively Up Yourself" and the
previously unreleased track "Turnaround."

Plant changed pace completely in 1984 with THE HONEYDRIPPERS: VOLUME ONE,
an EP that celebrated Plant's first musical love with covers of rock from
of the '50s and '60s featuring guest appearances by Jeff Beck and Jimmy
Page. A tantalizingly small collection of gems, the album featured five
tracks including Ray Charles' "I Got A Woman," Roy Brown's "Rockin' At
Midnight" and a song that became an international hit for Plant, a cover of
"Sea Of Love." The expanded version includes a live version of "Rockin' At
Midnight."

Plant returned in 1985 with another sonic departure, SHAKEN 'N' STIRRED.
Joined by former Little Feat drummer Ritchie Hayward, Plant recorded an
album that was both musically innovative and yet of its time. "It was
important to get away from the standard idea of rock," Plant writes in the
liner notes. "It's the feel of the time, it's the adventure of music at the
time, and the adventure of the technology." The album, which reached
Billboard's Top 20, includes the hit singles "Little By Little" and "Sixes
And Sevens." The expanded version includes a remixed version of "Little By
Little."

NOW AND ZEN - Plant's 1988 album - marked a new beginning that saw him
embracing his musical past while moving forward. Inspired by his powerhouse
band - including keyboardist and songwriting partner Phil Johnstone,
drummer Chris Blackwell, bassist Phil Scragg and guitarist Doug Boyle -
Plant recorded a passionate album filled with attitude. Titled after a 1959
Wailers instrumental, the smash single "Tall Cool One" featured a cameo by
Zep guitarist Jimmy Page, whose dive-bombing guitar provided the song's
signature lick. Peaking at #6 on Billboard's Album chart, NOW AND ZEN also
features "Heaven Knows," "Dance On My Own," and the moody "Ship Of Fools."
The expanded version includes live versions of several album cuts.

MANIC NIRVANA, released in 1990, built on Plant's harder edge for much of
the album before giving way - on the second half - to a reflective,
symphonic sound. The album's stylistic dichotomy is embodied by the album
opener-the rocking "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes On You)"-and the album
closer "Watching You," which includes Moroccan chromatics and West African
drumming. The album also includes "Tie Dye On The Highway," "Big Love" and
"I Cried." The expanded version features "One Love" and "Don't Look Back"
as well as "Oompa (Watery Bint)," which was released as a promo single
B-side.

Released in 1993, FATE OF NATIONS marks another shift in Plant's musical
palette. For this album, Plant returned to the folk origins that ran
quietly beneath much of Led Zeppelin's music while incorporating the more
mystical roots of bands like Traffic, Fairport Convention and especially
Tim Hardin, who Plant covers with "If I Were A Carpenter." The result is a
collection of songs that mix acoustic and natural-sounding instruments to
create music that is epic, adventurous and deeply challenging. The album
features the songs "Calling To You," "29 Palms" and a pair of overtly
political tracks, "Network News" and "Great Spirit," an anthemic prayer
that calls out for healing. The expanded version includes "Dark Moon,"
"8:05," a demo version of "Rollercoaster" culled from Plant's archives, the
B-side version of "Great Spirit" and "Colours Of A Shade," a song
previously unreleased in the UK and Japan.

After collaborating with Jimmy Page on several projects, Plant returned in
2002 on Universal Records with the Grammy nominated DREAMLAND, a collection
of covers - plus two originals - that are as compelling as they are
idiosyncratic. For the first album with his new band Strange Sensation,
Plant brings together songs that inspired him over the years including Tim
Buckley's "Song To The Siren," bluesman Bukka White's "Funny In My Mind (I
Believe I'm Fixin' To Die)," "One More Cup Of Coffee" by Bob Dylan and
"Skip's Song" by Skip Spence, the enigmatic member of Moby Grape. The
expanded version includes a remix of the original track "Last Time I Saw
Her," and "Dirt In A Hole," a song previously only available in the UK,
Japan and Australia.

MIGHTY REARRANGER, this twice Grammy nominated album was released last year
on Sanctuary Records and is Plant's first album of original material with
Strange Sensation. The album represents a culmination of Plant's experience
and contains songs imbued with a quarter century of his musical vision. The
music is instantly infectious and dynamic with shimmering Indo-Arabic
accents. Cracking the Top 25 of Billboard's Album chart, the album featured
the hit single "Shine It All Around," the rockabilly-inflected "Freedom
Fries," and "Brother Ray," a bluesy piano tribute to Ray Charles. The
expanded version includes "Red, White And Blue," "All The Money In The
World," remixes of "Tin Pan Valley," "Shine It All Around," and "The
Enchanter" remixed by James Lavelle.


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Bio
Driven by an insatiable artistic curiosity, Robert Plant has spent his life as a singer and songwriter chasing new sounds, rediscovering ancient ones and bringing them both together to create something original. Throughout his career - first as a member of Led Zeppelin and then as a solo artist for the past 25 years Plant has tapped a multifarious array
of inspirations that span the globe and the ages including Celtic and English folk, American blues, early rock 'n' roll, psychedelic rock and jazz as well as Arabic, Moroccan, West African and Indian music. After nine acclaimed solo albums - seven with Atlantic Records - Plant remains a restless spirit destined to a life of musical wanderlust.

 

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