{"id":822637,"date":"2026-08-23T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822637\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:52:10","slug":"robert-plant-made-a-surprise-appearance-with-mike-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822637\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Plant made a surprise appearance with Mike Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"777\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sanchez-777x437.jpg\" class=\"attachment-content-single size-content-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mike Sanchez and Robert Plant\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Mike Sanchez (left) and Robert Plant (right) performing at Kidderminster Town Hall on August 21, 2026 (Kidderminster Town Hall)<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">\nPosted By: <a class=\"fn\" href=\"https:\/\/ledzepnews.com\/author\/ledzepnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ledzepnews<\/a><br \/>\n22nd August 2026\n<\/p>\n<p>Robert Plant joined Mike Sanchez on stage in Kidderminster on August 21, videos and photographs from the performance show.<\/p>\n<p>Plant made an unannounced surprise appearance at Sanchez\u2019s show at Kidderminster Town Hall, where he joined the band for eight songs lasting more than 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The below video shows Plant performing songs including Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cRock And Roll\u201d along with Howlin\u2019 Wolf\u2019s \u201cHow Many More Years\u201d, Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cA Big Hunk o\u2019 Love\u201d, \u201cA Mess of Blues\u201d, \u201cLittle Sister\u201d and \u201cOne Night\u201d along with Lowell Fulson\u2019s \u201cReconsider Baby\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank you, my dear nephew, for making me stay up so late,\u201d Plant said to Sanchez while on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Plant also mentioned while on stage that his daughter Carmen was in attendance at the show.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs posted online show Plant on stage during the performance:<\/p>\n<p>Plant and Sanchez have been friends for years. \u201cRobert Plant has remained a dear friend since around 1982 when we first made contact to the sounds of Johnny Burnette\u00b4s Rock n Roll Trio and Vince Taylor &amp; The Playboys,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNKx1rCI_7x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanchez wrote on Instagram last year<\/a>. \u201cI call Robert my uncle and he calls me his baby brother!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow Led Zeppelin News on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LedZepNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ledzepnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> to stay up to date on news as it happens. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/ledzepnews.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign up to our email<\/a> for a digest of the latest news sent to your inbox. LedZepNews uses paid Amazon referral links to earn commissions to cover its costs.\t&#13;<br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Mike Sanchez (left) and Robert Plant (right) performing at Kidderminster Town Hall on August 21, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-822637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}