{"id":29363,"date":"2024-04-25T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-coffee-table-book-explores-robert-plants-early-post-led-zeppelin-career\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:02:50","slug":"new-coffee-table-book-explores-robert-plants-early-post-led-zeppelin-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-coffee-table-book-explores-robert-plants-early-post-led-zeppelin-career\/","title":{"rendered":"New coffee table book explores Robert Plant\u2019s early post-Led Zeppelin career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-24\/Getty_RobertPlant_042423.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Lester Cohen\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Robert Plant<\/strong>\u2019s career following the breakup of <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> in 1980 will be explored in a new picture book coming later this year.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Portraits of Robert Plant,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> from Rufus Publications, is a 240-page coffee table book\u00a0featuring rare and\u00a0previously unseen photos from well-known rock photographers. It also includes an essay from music journalist <strong>Mark Blake<\/strong>, who delves into Plant\u2019s career through the decade.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The book will be released in two editions, both coming with a foldout poster. The main edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, comes in a black slipcase with gold foil logo. There\u2019s also a lager black leather and metal edition, limited to 50 copies, which comes in a hand welded aluminum metal slipcase with a screen printed logo and a unique lenticular print.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both copies will be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rufuspublications.com\/rufusbooks\/plant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0starting Friday, April 26, with shipping to start at the end of July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Led Zeppelin called it quits in 1980 following the death of their drummer, <strong>John Bonham<\/strong>. Plant released his first solo album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Pictures at Eleven<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, in 1982, releasing three other solo albums in the \u201880s: 1983\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Principle of Moments<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1985\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Shaken \u2018n\u2019 Stirred<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and 1988\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Now and Zen<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Plant also teamed up with his Led Zeppelin bandmate <strong>Jimmy Page<\/strong> and\u00a0guitarist <strong>Jeff Beck<\/strong> for\u00a0the side project\u00a0<strong>Honeydrippers<\/strong>, releasing the EP <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Honeydrippers: Volume One <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">in 1984. It\u00a0featured a remake of <strong>Phil Phillips<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cSea of Love,\u201d which hit #3 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 singles chart. In 1988 he reunited with his Led Zeppelin bandmates Page and <strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong>, along with Bonham\u2019s son <strong>Jason<\/strong>, to perform at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary celebration concert at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Cohen\/Getty Images Robert Plant\u2019s career following the breakup of Led Zeppelin in 1980 will be explored in a new picture book coming later this year.\u00a0 Portraits of Robert Plant, from Rufus Publications, is a 240-page coffee table book\u00a0featuring rare and\u00a0previously unseen photos from well-known rock photographers. It also includes<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-coffee-table-book-explores-robert-plants-early-post-led-zeppelin-career\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}