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Robert Plant performs at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor on January 21, 2011

Robert Plant & the Band of Joy

Twilight of a god

by James Leonard

posted 1/8/2011

Once upon a time, Robert Plant was the living incarnation of great god Dionysus, and he and his fellow gods of the holy quartet Led Zeppelin delivered Bacchic revels and priapic ecstasies to their followers in the bleak epoch of the dark god Nixon. But when drummer John Bonham died of overindulgence, the spirit of Zeppelin died with him—and so did Plant’s career

 
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