Robert Plant has carried out the Led Zeppelin traditional ‘Stairway To Heaven’ dwell for the primary time since 2007. Discover footage of the second beneath.
The solo artist and former Led Zeppelin frontman revisited the enduring 1971 monitor – taken from the band’s ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ album – throughout a charity live performance on Saturday evening (October 21).
Held for The Most cancers Platform, the dwell present was developed by the Most cancers Consciousness Belief and organised by former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor. It came about at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire and featured appearances from different well-known faces together with Ella Henderson, Andrew Ridgeley of Wham!, former Pink Floyd bassist Man Pratt, comic Katherine Ryan and famend drummer David Palmer.
One of many foremost highlights of the evening – dubbed An Night With Andy Taylor And Particular Company – arose with a efficiency from Plant, who broke out Led Zeppelin tracks ‘Thank You’, ‘Black Canine’ and ‘Stairway To Heaven’. The latter marked his first time singing the monitor in 16 years.
The final time he sang the world-famous tune in public was again in 2007 at London’s O2 Enviornment, later launched because the Celebration Day live performance movie. Try footage of the second beneath.
The gig in Oxfordshire over the weekend wasn’t the primary charity live performance to be held in assist of Most cancers Consciousness Belief. Again in August, the Duran Duran additionally held a one-off present on the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, California to boost funds for the charity.
Held in honour of Taylor – who left the band in 2006 and revealed his personal prognosis of prostate most cancers final yr – the gig raised cash to combat in opposition to most cancers and assist develop particular therapies that enable sufferers to increase their lives.
Earlier this yr, Taylor revealed that he’s now hoping to bear ‘nuclear remedy’ – a more recent sort of remedy that has solely not too long ago arrived within the UK.
“Primarily it’s a nuclear drugs. It’s put into your physique and it detects the most cancers on the surface of the cells and it solely hits most cancers cells in your bones, which is especially the place it’s with me, and zaps them. But when there’s a wholesome cell subsequent to it, it doesn’t contact it,” he defined on the time (by way of Each day Mail).
“So it’s not healing, however it may well knock out after which it’s bought to begin once more and from what was sort of – I’ll not even say the time period they used to have on the factor – however I can get again [to] full health. I’ll be fantastic for 5 years.”
In different Robert Plant information, in the beginning of the yr the singer revealed that it was the “constructive power” he noticed in Phil Collins that was the “driving power” to get his solo profession off the bottom.
“After John [Bonham, Led Zeppelin drummer] handed away and there was no Led Zeppelin, there needed to be a option to go. I floundered round quite a bit as a result of till I used to be 32, I used to be in some sort of wild and absurd journey,” he stated.
“Phil Collins particularly was a driving power and had constructive power with the primary file… Then he got here on tour with me and mainly stated, ‘Robert, the man that sat behind you for all these years was my hero’. That was it. He stated, ‘Something I can do that can assist you to get again into combating form once more, I’m right here.’”
