📍Halesowen, West Midlands, UK
1948 – 1966“Robert Plant was born in West Bromwich in August 1948 and grew up in Hayley Green, on the leafy edge of Halesowen, where suburbia meets the North Worcestershire countryside in the shadow of the Clent Hills. His father was a civil engineer who had once played the violin, and his grandfather had led a brass band in the Black Country; Robert and his father shared a love of cycling and rode out together into the lanes around their home. Elvis Presley was the soundtrack of his 1950s childhood, and he has recalled hiding behind the curtains at home at Christmas, pretending to be Elvis. At King Edward VI Grammar School in Stourbridge he fell in love with the blues: Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf and the records he could find in local shops. He went to see local bands in Stourbridge and the Black Country towns around it, and by his mid-teens he was singing in blues groups in pubs and clubs across the Midlands. His father worried he was throwing away his future, and after two weeks training as a chartered accountant, Robert left home at sixteen to throw himself into the Midlands blues scene. In 1968 he joined Jimmy Page in the band that became Led Zeppelin, and his voice became one of the defining sounds of rock. He has never lost his love of the Black Country: he still lives in the region and is a devoted Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
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