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As the charismatic frontman of 70’s band Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant achieved legendary status as one of the original rock-gods.

He is still enjoying huge success as a solo artist 44 years after making his first recordings. His last album, with bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, won six Grammy awards.

He has now formed a new band and recorded an album, Band of Joy, named after his first teenage group. [Read more]

If only more musicians would grow old like Robert Plant. Acknowledging that heavy rock is best left to the kids­ (regardless of how brilliant that Led Zeppelin  reunion was), the 62-year-old has retired the leather trousers, buttoned up the shirt and embraced the more stately environs of country-rock.

His collaboration with Alison Krauss on 2007’s Raising Sands earned him six Grammy Awards and his re-formation of Band of Joy is a similar triumph. [Read more]

(Bloomberg) — Robert Plant is back. The Led Zeppelin star is reviving the ghost of his old group and paying homage to Americana in one of 2010’s must-see shows. Plant, 62, still comes on with hair flowing and unbuttoned black shirt. It’s back to the 1970s when he rips through “Rock and Roll” and back to the 1890s with some of the traditional gospel and blues numbers.

Last night Plant started the European leg of his world tour in London. Backed by the Band of Joy, he plays songs from his new CD plus ‘‘Houses of the Holy” and other Zeppelin classics. [Read more]

SINCE Led Zeppelin split in 1980, Robert Plant’s road has constantly been the one less travelled. Not for him the cash cow tours of Rod Stewart or Elton John.

Rather, the golden-locked rock god, below, has attempted to maintain contemporary relevance by his forays into everything from world music to synth pop.  Such excursions haven’t always been successful, but it doesn’t take a great leap of faith to declare that Band Of Joy (which reprises the name of his first pre-Led Zep band) is some of his best work since his Seventies heyday. [Read more]