{"id":63592,"date":"2025-08-13T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63592\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:38:07","slug":"robert-plant-on-turning-down-black-sabbaths-farewell-why-there-wont-be-another-led-zeppelin-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63592\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Plant on turning down Black Sabbath&#8217;s farewell, why there won\u2019t be another Led Zeppelin reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Robert Plant\u00a0reveals in a new interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojo4music.com\/articles\/stories\/robert-plant-to-do-it-for-the-sake-of-it-was-never-what-led-zeppelin-were-about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mojo<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Black Sabbath\u2018s\u00a0Tony Iommi\u00a0invited him to participate in\u00a0their Back to the Beginning farewell show, but declined the offer. The\u00a0concert, in Birmingham, England, turned out to be\u00a0Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s final performance before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI said, Tony, I\u2019d love to come, but I can\u2019t come. I just can\u2019t,\u201d the former\u00a0Led Zeppelin\u00a0frontman\u00a0says. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about what\u2019s going on in that world now, at all. I don\u2019t decry it, I\u2019ve got nothing against it. It\u2019s just I found these other places that are so rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Plant will release a new album with his acoustic band\u00a0Saving Grace\u00a0on Sept. 26, and they\u2019ll head out on a U.S tour on Oct. 30. While they\u2019ve been known to play Led Zeppelin tunes like \u201cThe Rain Song\u201d and \u201cFour Sticks\u201d\u00a0at their shows, Plant prefers to stay away from the bigger hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat\u00a0were\u00a0the hits? How can they be related to now, where do they fit? They fit as a sort of memoir,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen people say that I don\u2019t like \u2018Stairway To Heaven,\u2019 I just don\u2019t like the\u00a0idea\u00a0of it. These iconic things \u2013 they\u2019re just what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He adds, \u201cBut you know, most people have missed some of the best Zeppelin stuff. \u2018For Your Life,\u2019 on\u00a0Presence. \u2018Achilles Last Stand!\u2019 F***** hell. Just extraordinary that three people and a singer can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The last time the surviving members of Led Zeppelin performed together was in 2007 in London\u00a0at the tribute\u00a0concert for record exec\u00a0Ahmet Urtrgen. While Plant says that performance \u201ccame through,\u201d\u00a0he doesn\u2019t expect it will ever happen again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As for why, he says, \u201cI suppose, to do it for the sake of it was never what Zeppelin was about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. 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