{"id":510675,"date":"2025-10-19T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510675\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:30:16","slug":"the-surreal-elvis-moment-robert-plant-will-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510675\/","title":{"rendered":"The surreal Elvis moment Robert Plant will never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robert<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Heinrich Klaffs \/ Ollie Atkins)<\/p>\n

Sat 18 October 2025 22:15, UK <\/p>\n

If there was one god to the 1960s music scene, it was Elvis Presley. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough to find a band from the countercultural sphere that doesn\u2019t have some Elvis-based story about how The King inspired them, or even let them down. But surely Robert Plant<\/a> wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BBC wasn\u2019t very kind to youth culture in those days, but every now and then on Two Way Family Favourites on a Sunday lunchtime, some servicemen would send messages back to Mom and Dad and request a song,\u201d Plant recalled of his youth spent listening to boring music. Then everything changed; \u201cIt was \u2018Hound Dog\u2019, Elvis.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Led Zeppelin frontman said, \u201cThat was the kind of lock-in. <\/a>It was an opiate. Something happened when I heard the sound of that record. It certainly made me put my stamp collection to one side for a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

That story is a familiar one. Paul McCartney has a similar one, as does John Lennon, about the moment they first heard Elvis, and it suddenly felt like the world was in technicolour. All of them talk about the King as if his music was something they\u2019d never heard before, or could have even dreamed up. But for young kids in Britain, it was as Presley broke through the doors of the mainstream to deliver them rock and roll where it wouldn\u2019t typically reach.<\/p>\n

However, eventually, The Beatles would end up feeling let down by their old hero. \u201cThe Beatles had been a real force for anti-American spirit,\u201d Presley was rumoured to have said to President Nixon behind closed doors as he seemed to turn on the band and rock and roll. <\/p>\n

So naturally, when the group met the singer, they all felt a little weird. \u201cHe was just surrounded by these sycophants,\u201d Ringo Starr said of the encounter, \u201cYou know, it was just so strange,<\/a> and I was just so angry because he wasn\u2019t making any music. He wasn\u2019t doing what he should have been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Robert Plant and his hero, Elvis Presley. (Credit: Dina Regine\/White House)<\/p>\n

But Plant\u2019s experience wasn\u2019t anything like that. Instead, he was golden as he seemed to get a chance to meet Elvis as both the man he was, and the hero Plant worshipped.<\/p>\n

They met a few times in the end as The King and Led Zeppelin seemed to fall into an accidental kinship, but out of them all, Plant recalled one truly wild memory of a night he described as \u201cmost illuminating and funny\u201d.<\/p>\n

After another classic time with Elvis and his entire entourage, desperately trying to impress him but also desperately wanting to just know him, Plant was leaving when suddenly, he heard the voice that had changed everything back in the day.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cI was walking down the corridor,\u201d Plant remembered, \u201cHe swung \u2019round the door frame, looking quite pleased with himself, and started singing that song: \u2018Treat me like a fool\u2026\u2019\u201d Suddenly, not only was Plant in the presence of his hero, but he was getting a private song, hearing Elvis simply singing to himself in his own house as a real pinch-me moment that surely felt like a dream. <\/p>\n

Plant saw it as his chance, though. While most likely would have stayed silent, not daring to interrupt the King\u2019s song, Plant joined in. \u201cI turned around and did Elvis right back at him,\u201d he said, recalling how he put on his best crooner voice to sing \u2018Love Me\u2019 with him. \u201cWe stood there, singing to each other,\u201d he said, still baffled by the happening years later, knowing he\u2019ll cherish the memory forever.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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