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Background information
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, 1998
Origin	London, England
Genres	Hard rock, folk rock, symphonic rock, world music, blues rock
Years active	1994–1998, 2001
Labels	Atlantic, Fontana, Mercury
Associated acts	Led Zeppelin, Coverdale•Page, Strange Sensation
Past members	Jimmy Page Robert Plant

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Walking into Clarksdale is the only studio album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 21 April 1998. Walking into Clarksdale took 35 days to record. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Walking into Clarksdale - Page & Plant, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant on AllMusic - 1998 - For all of the acclaim it received, there's no.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of the English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the title Page and Plant. The pair re-united in 1994 and, after recording a highly successful live acoustic album, they embarked on a world tour. They then recorded a second full studio album of original songs, followed by another world tour, before disbanding at the end of 1998. They later briefly reunited in 2001.

History[edit]

The initial plans for a reunion were made in 1993, with discussions between the two of collaborating emerging from casual small talk and then an invitation to perform on MTV Unplugged. Music producer Bill Curbishley, who had been managing Plant since the 1980s and who assumed management of Page in 1994, was integral in the reuniting of Page and Plant. Despite failed attempts by others to reunite the pair, Curbishley was able to persuade the previously reluctant Plant into working with Page again.^[1] In an interview he gave in 2004, Page recounted the background:

I was going to play in Japan with David [Coverdale], the only time we played live, and I had a call from Robert's management to pop in and see Robert in Boston on the way to LA to rehearse. Robert said, 'I've been approached by MTV to do an Unplugged and I'd really like to do it with you,' so I said, 'Okay.' It gave us a chance to revisit some numbers and use that same picture with a very, very different frame.^[2]

Plant's recollection of the reunion was as follows:

By that time I didn't feel like I was even a rock singer anymore .. Then I was approached by MTV to do an Unplugged session. But I knew that I couldn't be seen to be holding the flag for the Zeppelin legacy on TV. Then mysteriously Jimmy turned up at a gig I was playing in Boston and it was like those difficult last days of Led Zep had vanished. We had this understanding again without doing or saying anything. We talked about the MTV thing and decided to see where we could take it.^[3]

Led Zeppelin's main songwriters reformed on April 17, 1994 as a part of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton, England. On August 25 and 26, they taped performances in London, Wales, and Morocco with Egyptian and Moroccan orchestration of several Led Zeppelin tunes along with four new songs. The performances aired on October 12, and were so successful commercially and artistically that the two coordinated a tour which kicked off in February 1995. The Unplugged performance was released as an album in November 1994 as No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded.

Page and Plant toured the world with a line-up including Charlie Jones playing bass and percussion, Michael Lee on drums, Porl Thompson (of The Cure fame) performing guitar and banjo, Najma Akhtar providing backup vocals, Jim Sutherland on mandolin and bodhrán, Nigel Eaton playing hurdy-gurdy, and Ed Shearmur adding Hammond organ with orchestral arrangements. Page:

It was heroic to take something like that around the world, because it was using two orchestras: one Western, one Arab orchestra, with a hurdy-gurdy. Install windows on mac. It was great going around the world to turn people on to sounds they hadn't heard. It wasn't an easy thing to do, but it was worth it.^[2]

Afterwards, the two artists entered the studio with engineerSteve Albini to record Walking into Clarksdale, an album composed of entirely new material with more traditional rock enterprises. The album was not as commercially successful as Unledded had been, and after a supporting tour, the Page/Plant reunion slowly dissolved, with both members going on to perform with other side projects. As Page explained:

There could have been a follow-up [to Walking into Clarksdale]. I certainly had about a dozen numbers written for a third album. Robert heard them and said that some were really good, but he just wanted to go in another direction. That's fair enough.^[4]

In an interview he gave to Uncut magazine in 2005 Plant recounted:

We had some good songs [on Walking into Clarksdale], but I wasn't sure about the production. I felt kind of marooned. We were still surrounded by the protective shield of who we were, and it meant we were playing big arenas around the world. And I realised once again there had to be another way.. I knew I had to get back to playing clubs and remember what pulse was all about. To say goodbye to those large arenas that I played with Jimmy was a very purposeful move.^[3]

They reunited once more in July 2001 for the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Members[edit]

Jimmy Page — acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, producer
Robert Plant — vocals, producer

Additional musicians

Porl Thompson — guitar, banjo
Nigel Eaton — hurdy-gurdy
Charlie Jones — bass, percussion
Michael Lee — drums, percussion
Ed Shearmur — orchestral arrangements, organ
Jim Sutherland — mandolin, bodhran

Martin Meissonnier Preproduction^[5]^[6]

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Discography[edit]

Albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Album details	US ^[7]	AUS ^[8]	AUT ^[9]	FRA ^[10]	NLD ^[11]	NZL ^[12]	NOR ^[13]	SWE ^[14]	SWI ^[15]	UK ^[16]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1994	No Quarter Released: 14 October 1994 Label: Atlantic/Fontana Format: CD	4	2	27	—	33	13	—	10	16	7	US: Platinum^[17] CAN 2× Platinum^[18] UK: Gold^[19]
1998	Walking into Clarksdale Released: 21 April 1998 Label: Atlantic/Mercury Format: CD	8	16	33	5	56	11	13	17	31	3	US: Gold^[20]
'—' denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

Contributions to compilations

Year	Name
1997	The Inner Flame: Rainer Ptacek Tribute (collaboration)
2001	Good Rockin' Tonight - The Legacy Of Sun Records (Song: My Bucket's Got a Hole in It)

Singles

Year	Name
1994	'The Battle of Evermore' (promo)
1994	'Four Sticks' (promo)
1994	'Gallows Pole'
1994	'Kashmir' (promo)
1995	'Thank You' (promo)
1995	'Wonderful One'
1998	'Most High'
1998	'Shining in the Light'
1998	'Sons of Freedom' (promo)

Videos

Year	Name
2004	No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded

References[edit]

^Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN0-7119-5307-4.
^ ^a^bCharles Shaar Murray, 'The Guv'nors', Mojo, August 2004, p. 75.
^ ^a^bNigel Williamson, 'Good Times..Bad Times', Uncut, May 2005, p. 64.
^'I first met Jimmy on Tolworth Broadway, holding a bag of exotic fish..', Uncut, January 2009, p. 48.
^http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhere/1939/robert-plant-and-jimmy-page-interviewed-1994-only-the-song-remains/
^https://books.google.com/books?id=p3eGtD1fIh8C&pg=PA312
^'Allmusic -> Jimmy Page -> Charts & Awards'. Billboard. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Australian Chart'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Austrian Chart'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'French Chart'. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Dutch Album Chart'. GFK. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'New Zealand Chart'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Norwegian Chart'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Swedish Chart'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Swiss Chart'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'Artist Chart History - Jimmy Page'. OCC. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^'RIAA No Quarter - 4 December 1994'. RIAA. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
^'CRIA No Quarter - 4 December 1994'. CRIA. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^'BPI No Quarter certification - 1 February 1995'. The BPI. Retrieved 19 January 2009.^{[dead link]}
^'RIAA Walking Into Clarksdale - 21 April 1998'. RIAA. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

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In 1968, a naïve young singer from the Black Country hills in England named Robert Plant was discovered wailing the blues by veteran session guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones. When Plant recommended his friend John Bonham as the drummer, one of the most successful bands in rock history was born: Led Zeppelin. . But the group that started with such force also ended in flames after 12 years, as Bonham’s death from alcohol poisoning in 1980 split the band after nine albums. The remaining members went their separate ways, but Bonham’s death hit Plant particularly hard. Starting his solo career in 1982 with his Zeppelin-like Pictures at Eleven album, Plant would use a slew of great drummers over the next few years, including Phil Collins, Cozy Powell, Barriemore Barlow, and Richie Hayward. Collins appeared on the 1983 follow-up, The Principle of Moments, and Plant achieved a lighter touch somewhere between Genesis and Zeppelin’s quieter side with tracks like “In the Mood” and “Big Log.” But the singer would feed his Elvis Presley infatuation on 1984’s The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1, teaming with Page and other guests on influential roots rock material. ― Allmusic

1. STUDIO:

1982. Pictures At Eleven (1986, Warner-Pioneer, 32XD-392, Japan)
1982. Pictures At Eleven (1990, Swan Song, 7567-90340-2, 259 418, Germany)
1982. Pictures At Eleven (1990, Swan Song, CD 8512, Canada)
1982. Pictures At Eleven (1990, Swan Song, SS 8512-2, Germany)
1982. Pictures At Eleven (1994, Swan Song, 7567-90340-2, Germany)

1983. The Principle Of Moments (1983, Es Paranza, 790 101-2, W.Germany, Target CD)
1983. The Principle Of Moments (1988, Warner-Pioneer, 32XD-935, Japan)
1983. The Principle Of Moments (1994, Es Paranza, 7567-90101-2, Germany)

1985. Shaken ‘N’ Stirred (1985, Warner-Pioneer, 32XD-310, Japan)
1985. Shaken ‘N’ Stirred (1989, Es Paranza, A2-90265, USA)
1985. Shaken ‘N’ Stirred (1994, Es Paranza, 7567-90265-2, Germany)

1988. Now And Zen (1988, Es Paranza, A2 90863, USA)
1988. Now And Zen (1988, Warner-Pioneer, 32XD-945, Japan)
1988. Now And Zen (1990, Es Paranza, 7567-90863-2, Germany)

1990. Manic Nirvana (1990, East West, AMCY-2743, Japan)
1990. Manic Nirvana (1990, Es Paranza, 7 91336-2, USA)
1990. Manic Nirvana (1990, MMG Inc., AMCY-29, Japan)
1990. Manic Nirvana (1994, Es Paranza, 7567-91336-2, Germany)

1993. Fate Of Nations (1993, Fontana, 514 867-2, Germany)
1993. Fate Of Nations (1993, Nippon Phonogram, PHCR-1200, Japan)
1993. Fate Of Nations (1994, Fontana, 514 867-2, France)
1993. Fate Of Nations (2000, PolyGram K.K., PHCR-4406, Japan)

No Quarter

2002. Dreamland (2002, Universal, 314 586 962-2, USA)

2005. Mighty Rearranger (2005, BMG Funhouse, BVCM-41034, Japan)
2005. Mighty Rearranger (2005, Sanctuary, SANDP356, EU)

2010. Band Of Joy (2010, Es Paranza-Decca, 2742241, EU)

2014. Lullaby And …The Ceaseless Roar (2014, Nonesuch 7559-79537-3, EU)

2. COMPILATION:

2003. Sixty Six To Timbuktu (2003, Mercury, 981 319-9, EU, 2CD)

3. BOX SET:

2006. Nine Lives(2006, Swan Song-Rhino, 8122 78778-2, EU, 9CD+DVD)