The former Led Zeppelin leader referred to the emblematic farewell show and said it is like “making a football stadium with some old friends.”
Robert Plant revealed the reason why he rejected an invitation to the last live concert of Ozzy Osbournethe concert “Back to the Beginning” of Black Sabbath.
The heavy metal pioneer Ozzy died last month at age 76, shortly after taking the stage for his last live show in the great “Back To the Beginning” event in Birmingham on July 5, which was attended by a large number of rock royalty members.
Robert Plant’s reasons not to attend the Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath farewell concert
The former leader of Zeppelin LED He told Mojo magazine that, although Tony Iommi He extended an invitation, rejected it at that time, without specifying if they asked him to act at the concert, he only said that he was asked to “attend.”
Talking to the publication about his next album with Saving Gracethat the band will celebrate with a tour of Europe and North America this spring, and shed light on its intention to get away from large -scale places on the next tour.
“For me,” he explained, “because I have gone from a very questionable live aid to O2, to Obama, to the White House and all that, I felt beatified. I felt the need to do this: Saving Grace simply needed to ascend in glory, as Mavis would say [Staples]. We have to be very careful now to make sure it stays closer to Bert Jansch than of Axl Rose, ”he said.
He continued to highlight his feeling of greatest “freedom” to play in smaller rooms with Saving Grace, which could have influenced his decision to reject “Back to the Beginning.” The emblematic concert was seen by millions of people around the world and approximately 40,000 attendees were presented in Villa Park. Plant apparently referred to the performance as “an experience in the football stadium with old friends.”
“The concerts are small enough so that if nobody wants to go, it is not the end of the world. So, with that carefree, relaxed attitude, as it is called – Issuicide! -, instead of going to the football stadium with old friends, there it was: we were free. We could have fun.”
“I said: Tony, I would love to go, but I can’t”Said Plant. “I just can’t. I don’t say that I prefer to be with Peter Gabriel or Youssou N’Dour, but I don’t know anything about what is happening in that world right now, at all. I don’t report it, I have nothing against it.” “I found other places that are so rich.”
Saving Grace plans concerts in New York, Vancouver, Chicago, Los Angeles and other places at the end of this year, with four intimate concerts in London scheduled for next month.
Source: Ambito
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