With his mane of golden hair, bare chest and one-of-a-kind swagger, Robert Plant helped to define rock star style during the height of Led Zeppelin's fame (and he's still blowing audiences away onstage today). But when Plant looks back on his younger days, he doesn't necessarily see a "golden god" — in fact, he once compared himself to a rather unlikely animal.
In a 1988 interview with Q magazine (shared on the fan site Robert Planted), Plant reflected on his looks and moves back when Zeppelin first skyrocketed to fame.
“I don’t know where it came from, my style," he admitted. "I must have been pretty insecure when Zeppelin started to want to run around puffing my chest out and pursing my lips and throwing my hair back like some West Midlands giraffe."
As Plant went on to explain, old habits apparently really do die hard.
"But I did it again last night," he said. "And when I did it, I laughed so much. It was like self-parody; I was wiggling around like some ageing big girl’s blouse and I realize how stupid it all looks. I mean, last night while I was crouching and leaping up in the air and doing a spiral as I came down again, I thought ‘I wonder if David Coverdale does that yet?’ But that’s what I’m good at. That’s what I know. What else am I going to do? Sleep with the board of directors of Coca Cola and make an ad? I don’t know. I don’t want to end up playing in the back room of some pub in Wolverhampton waiting for the night match at Molyneux to end. It’s a bit of a naff old game, life.”
Robert PlantPhoto by Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Robert Plant says he was having a 'very good time' in the '70s
It seems in the years since that interview, Plant has developed a more compassionate attitude towards his younger self. During a recent chat with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Plant reflected on whether or not he helped to create the “God of rock and roll or rock god archetype."
“Well, I can’t remember what it must have been like,” he joked, adding, “I’ve seen some photographs. I had some lovely jewelry.”
“I look back at it as part of the development of a guy who just avoided maintaining and actually getting my articles as a chartered accountant,” he continued. “So I look back, and I admire that kid.”
“There was no conception of there being a future to look back at things,” Plant admitted, adding, “You know, I couldn’t have imagined my existence beyond that very week that I was in…and never mind being 25, you know. So I think that whoever that kid was, he was definitely doing something special. And he was having a very good time.”
Giraffe or not, it's safe to say everybody watching Plant was having a very good time, too.
Related: Teenaged Robert Plant Covered a Rock n' Roll Classic Long Before Led Zeppelin
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