Robert Plant said in a new interview with Mojo Magazine that “most people” miss the greatest songs Led Zeppelin made.
Speaking in a cover story published in Mojo’s October 2025 issue, Plant said that “most people have missed some of the best Zeppelin stuff.”
“‘For Your Life’, on Presence. ‘Achilles Last Stand!’ Fucking hell,” Plant continued. “Just extraordinary that three people and a singer can do that. Really, they were pulling so much stuff out of the unknown, Bonham and Jones together on ‘For Your Life’. It’s just insane. And Jimmy, just… (exhales).”
Mojo asked Plant whether he was ever content just to play Led Zeppelin’s hits in his solo career.
“What were the hits? How can they be related to now, where do they fit? They fit as a sort of memoir,” Plant replied. “When people say that I don’t like ‘Stairway To Heaven’, I just don’t like the idea of it. These iconic things – they’re just what they are.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Plant again expressed his support for Bruce Springsteen’s recent comments on US politics.
“There are people I know that say I should say what I think, but there’s so many strands to it,” Plant said. “It’s a slow death of everything we ever loved. From an American viewpoint, I could only add my support to Bruce Springsteen because he actually knows it, he lives in it.”
In May, Plant publicly expressed his support for Springsteen after he delivered a series of speeches opposing Donald Trump.
While introducing the song “Friends” during his performance with Saving Grace in Tampere, Finland on May 18, Plant said: “Right now in England, which is where we come from – not quite the land of the ice and snow, Bruce Springsteen is touring right now in the UK and he’s putting out some really serious stuff. So tune in to him. And let’s all hope that we can be…” The band then began performing “Friends”.
Plant’s comments were in reference to speeches Springsteen delivered during his European tour. In the tour’s opening show in Manchester in the UK on May 14, Springsteen said: “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”
Trump responded to Springsteen’s speeches in a post on the Truth Social website, calling him “highly overrated” and “dumb as a rock”.
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