As the legendary frontman for Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant earned his reputation as rock and roll's "Golden God" decades ago. But the singer was blowing audiences away even before he joined the now-iconic band (although one future bandmate was already by his side even then).
Formed in England in 1966, Band of Joy featured a number of musicians who would go on to become famous; most notably, Plant and future Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. While the group didn't release their first official album until 1978, according to Classic Rock History — long after Plant and Bonham joined Zeppelin — during the late '60s, Band of Joy recorded two demos.
The demos consisted of two covers: "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield and "Hey Joe," most famously recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. While they weren't released at the time, the tracks later resurfaced on released on Plant's song compilation Sixty Six to Timbuktu. The "sixty six" in the title refers to the year his Band of Joy demos were recorded — and since Plant was born in 1948, that means he would have been just about 18 years old when he went into the studio.
Even though the recordings didn't directly lead to Plant and Bonham's success, by 1968, they were both members of Led Zeppelin and well on their way to superstardom. In a recent appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years with Vernon Kay, Plant opened up about what it was like singing covers as an aspiring rock star.
“When you’re singing stock tunes, you’re not expressing yourself as you might do later,” he said, adding, “You know, you’re just in it, and you’re singing somebody else’s songs in a room with 20 people watching.”
'Hey Joe' wasn't a Jimi Hendrix original
Though most people associate "Hey Joe" with Jimi Hendrix, it's actually a rock standard that had already been around for a few years by the time Hendrix recorded the song in 1966, according to American Songwriter.
As for who wrote the song originally, the answer to that question remains unclear to this day. It was copyrighted in the U.S. by Billy Roberts in 1962, but others consider Dino Valenti to be the author, and still others say it's a “traditional" song, crediting no specific writer.
However, due in part to the fact that "Hey Joe" was the tune Hendrix played to end his historic Woodstock set, it will surely live on forever as one of his best-known songs.
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