Page and Plant

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Page and Plant is the name that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured under in the mid-1990s. The initial plans for a reunion were made in 1993, with talk between the two of collaborating proceeding from casual small talk to an invitation to perform on MTV Unplugged. Music producer Bill Curbishley, who had been managing Plant since the 1980s and who assumed management of Page in 1994, was integral in the reuniting of Page and Plant. Curbishely persuaded the previously-reluctant Plant to work again with Page.

Led Zeppelin's main songwriters reformed on April 17, 1994 as a part of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton, England. On August 25 and August 26, they taped performances in London, Wales, and Morocco with Egyptian and Moroccan orchestration of several Led Zeppelin tunes along with four new songs. The performances aired on October 12, and were so successful commercially and artistically that the two coordinated a tour which kicked off in February 1995. The Unplugged performance was released as an album in November 1994 as No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded.

Their tour took them across the world with a lineup including Charlie Jones playing bass and percussion, Michael Lee on drums, Porl Thompson performing guitar and banjo, Najma Akhtar providing backup vocals, Jim Sutherland on mandolin and bodhrán, Nigel Eaton hurdy gurdy, and Ed Shearmur playing Hammond organ with orchestral arrangements. Afterwards, they entered the studio with legendary engineer Steve Albini to record Walking into Clarksdale, an album of entirely new material. This album was not as commercially successful as Unledded had been, and the Page/Plant reunion slowly dissolved, with both members going on to perform with other side projects. They reunited once more in July 2001 for the Montreux Jazz Festival.

1 Main staff
2 Discography

[edit] Main staff

Jimmy Page - Acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, producer
Robert Plant - Vocals, producer
Bill Curbishley - Manager
Charlie Jones - Bass guitar, percussion
Michael Lee - Drums and percussion
Ed Shearmur - Orchestral arrangements, organ
Porl Thompson - Banjo, guitar
Nigel Eaton - Hurdy gurdy
Joe Sutherland - Mandolin, bodhran

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Year	Name
1994	No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded
1998	Walking into Clarksdale

[edit] Singles

Year	Name
1994	The Battle of Evermore (promo)
1994	Four Sticks (promo)
1994	Gallows Pole
1994	Kashmir (promo)
1995	Thank You (promo)
1995	Wonderful One
1998	Most High
1998	Shining in the Light
1998	Sons of Freedom (promo)