{"id":797261,"date":"2019-07-01T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=854026"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:57:28","slug":"watch-robert-plant-sing-immigrant-song-for-first-time-since-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-robert-plant-sing-immigrant-song-for-first-time-since-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Robert Plant Sing \u2018Immigrant Song\u2019 for First Time Since 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/robert-plant-immigrant-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robert-plant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-plant\" data-tag=\"robert-plant\">Robert Plant<\/a> played Iceland\u2019s Summer Solstice Festival late last month, he wrapped up his set with a truncated rendition of \u201cImmigrant Song,\u201d marking the first time he played any version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/led-zeppelin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_led-zeppelin\" data-tag=\"led-zeppelin\">Led Zeppelin<\/a> classic since a 1996 Page and Plant concert. Plant often plays Zeppelin tunes at his solo shows in completely new arrangements, but as you can see from this fan-shot YouTube video, he sticks pretty close to the original even though he shaved off a few verses.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote \u201cImmigrant Song\u201d when Led Zeppelin first toured Iceland in the summer of 1970. \u201cWe went to Iceland, and it made you think of Vikings and big ships,\u201d Plant said in 1970. \u201cAnd bang, there it was \u2013\u2018 Immigrant Song!\u2019\u201d The song became the lead single from <em>Led Zeppelin III<\/em> and peaked at #16 on the Hot 100, making it their third biggest stateside hit after \u201cWhole Lotta\u201d and \u201cBlack Dog.\u201d It was a regular part of their live show for a couple of years, but they dropped it in January 1973 and never played it again as a band.<\/p>\n<p>Plant played it many times at his solo shows between 1988 and 1991 and occasionally on the road with Jimmy Page in 1995 and 1996, but it wasn\u2019t a part of Led Zeppelin\u2019s one-off reunion show at London\u2019s 02 Arena in 2007. Plant\u2019s ongoing solo tour is heavy on Zeppelin songs, including \u201cWhen the Levee Breaks,\u201d \u201cBlack Dog,\u201d \u201cGoing to California\u201d and Ramble On,\u201d but \u201cImmigrant Song\u201d vanished as soon as the tour left Iceland and probably won\u2019t return unless he comes back for another show in the \u201cland of the ice and snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-robert-plant-sing-immigrant-song-for-first-time-since-1996-854026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Robert Plant played Iceland\u2019s Summer Solstice Festival late last month, he wrapped up his set with a truncated rendition of \u201cImmigrant Song,\u201d marking the first time he played any version of the Led Zeppelin classic since a 1996 Page and Plant concert. Plant often plays Zeppelin tunes at his solo shows in completely new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 06:41:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}