At the age of thirteen Plant started to get into rock'n'roll and he started skipping class and joinging pop groups. His parents weren't very enthusiastic about his new rebellious ways but they didn't go out of their way to discourage him. In fact his father took him down to clubs to sees blues singers.

   Plant really liked the blues. The person who really got him into the blues was a blues singer and guitarist by the name of Terry Foster. Plant, Foster and another guy named Chris Wood would play at a club name the Seven Stars Blues Club. They would play stuff like 'Got My Mojo Working'. They called themselves the Delta Blues Band.

   When they weren't together Plant and a guitarist would go aroung playing 'Corinna Corinna' and other vulgar blues songs.

   After leaving home Plant joined a group called the Crawling King Snakes. The band however wasn't what he was looking for and they didn't really make actually music.

   After leaving the band he was interested in finding out about the blues and its origins. He also wanted to see not so well known black blues players that made their way to england. One of his favorite black blues players was Sonny Boy.

   Another influence on Plant's developing style was Tommy McClellan and Robert Johnson. He loved how they expressed themselves. But Plant's biggest influence was B.B. King.

   When Plant first started singing he wanted to do very mellow singing. But when he heard a singer named Stevie Winwood cry his heart out he wondered if thats what he wanted to do.

   When Plant formed the band, Band of Joy, he finnally figured out what he was doing. First it started as a mixture of blues and soul but then it shifted into pure blues which was really what he wanted.

   The band's manager however didn't like how Plant sang so he kicked him out of the band. So Plant formed another Band of Joy. This band didn't go well for Plant either. The band almost always scared their audiences away because of the way they acted.

   Plant formed one more Band of Joy and with the formation of this band Plant and the drummer John Bonham were united. It was untill then Plant discovered new American West Coast rock. Plant and Bonham loved it, they loved how you could bounce around to it or you can just sit down and listen to it. Plant didn't want to play any more blues after he heard this new music. Because of this musci Plant and Bonham formed a special bond.

   Plant and Bonham realeased three singles together. They also played some gigs but they weren't getting much money. It turned out that people just didn't want to listen to that type of music. So they broke up and they went their seperate ways.

   For a long time Plant was out of work and he had to live off of Maureen. He later became a road consturctor and got horrible money for it.

   After a while Plant met up with a guitarist named Alexis Korner. They started an album but they never got to finish it. Plant however didn't want to reform a band at that time.

   Plant showed a demo disc that he had made with the Band of Joy to Tony Secunda and he really liked it. Secunda then showed to a friend of his that was producer, Denny Cordell. He was busy at the moment so they sent to London to make an audition tape at the Marquee Studios. But however they lost the tape. 

   When Plant finally met Denny Cordell he was a little excited and made Cordell pass out. Cordell said that was Plant was to wild for him and he was trying to hold up another band and couldn't handle him at that moment. 

   Really before the joining of Led Zeppelin Plant was still trying to find out what he wanted to do.