Sunday, October 9, 2011

Robert Plant’s Blue Note

We all know he was the lead singer for one of the most popular and influential rock bands of all time, but as this fascinating documentary proves, there’s more to Robert Plant than his past with Led Zeppelin. A lot more. The movie spends a surprisingly small amount of time, in fact, covering Plant’s Zeppelin career, instead concentrating on the music he made before he met Jimmy Page, and the sounds he searched for once Zeppelin ceased to be. It’s a fantastic journey, even when it stumbles along through Plant’s misplaced musical experimentation with his solo career in the 1980s, because Plant’s pursuit for the music that feeds his soul is pure. His determination — and talent — to share it with others is just as impressive.

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