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Robert Plant<\/a> has always been used to making songs that were much more concerned with something greater than rock and roll. <\/p>\n Sure, Led Zeppelin was always going to have a core piece of rock and roll history to them thanks to Jimmy Page, but when you look through the kinds of tunes that they were working on at the time, there was still that same mystical quality that you wouldn\u2019t have found in their music were it not for Plant singing everything. He was a child of the hippie movement, and he didn\u2019t suddenly forget those ideals once the amps started getting bigger.<\/p>\n If anything, he was going to turn that style up every now and again. The biggest tunes that the band ever made were all about music that was greater than themselves, and even though they were doing everything they could to push themselves, there were still instances where they couldn\u2019t really work on one song that only had to do with the typical angles of sex, drugs and rock and roll.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the reason why \u2018Living Loving Maid\u2019 never landed in Plant\u2019s mind, and some of the best tunes that he would go on to make got even more esoteric. He wanted to make tunes that people would remember forever, and even though \u2018Stairway to Heaven\u2019 was something that he never fully connected with, there was a lot more going on for him when he started working on tunes like \u2018Kashmir\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n That was the kind of symphonic epic that he felt they should be making as rock and roll legends, but there was always room for more downtempo affairs as well. Page still loved his acoustic guitar better than most, and while Plant tried his best to make a bunch of tunes that managed to leave a hole in people\u2019s hearts on tracks like \u2018Going to California\u2019<\/a>, it was nowhere near the kind of range that he heard out of Tim Buckley.<\/p>\n While everyone can remember his son that outshone him in the 1990s, Tim was one of the finest folk singers on the circuit, and \u2018Song to A Siren\u2019 was the kind of song that Plant couldn\u2019t get away from. He could recognise that kind of song whenever he perked up his ears, and there\u2019s nothing in the world that could make him resist that voice whenever Tim reached into his upper register.<\/p>\n
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