Like a confused and conflicted teenager, Robert Plant found the musical artists who helped him through those intense years, and one of them was rotating stone. The future lead singer of Led Zeppelin he was only 15 years old when he heard the debut single by Mick Jagger and co in 1963 and fell in love with the sound of the band with a version of “Come On”, an original song by the legendary Chuck Berry. Although the disguise was a minor success in England, Plant decided he would closely follow the career of the group that had blown his head.

Although it often happens, over time, some people forget the importance of some of the songs that marked his youth, Robert doesn’t seem to stop loving the Stones song, quite the opposite. During an interview on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks Of My Years (via Far Out Magazine), Plant included that version of “Come On” among his favorite songs. In this regard, he explains: “Perhaps you have realized that in my history as a singer and artist, and the adventures I have had in the musical game, I’m interested and obsessed with Chicago and Mississippi music and Delta blues“.

Later, the veteran rocker added: “I think in the British music scene, one of the pioneers and major providers of music that brought it to us when we were teenagers was the Rolling Stones”. He immediately defined “Come on” as “the start of his extraordinary career, promoting and perhaps inspiring us to country blues music and the blue of North America.”

There is no doubt that this interpretation of Jagger and his people was one of the kicks for Robert to start dreaming of founding his own band and exploring sounds so far removed from the European culture of his time, and more related to the history of music. African American community.