![]() ![]() The Who's Roger Daltrey in 1969 Photo: Shutterstock Rather, he remembers them standing around his hotel room for hours, talking about music.Īs for whether Robert and Led Zeppelin ever hosted their own sumptuous fan meet-and-greets, Plant told Howard they were more likely to just avoid people altogether. It’s not sashay, it’s not slink … he just grooved his way through the people,” Robert said.ĭespite worshipping Elvis in his youth, Robert told Howard he wasn’t nervous on the night he met him. “When the room was suitably full … when the room was buzzing with anticipation, the door opened and this guy just, I don’t know what the word is. Robert can still recall how the room slowly but surely filled with female fans who all seemed to resemble the actress Sandra Dee. ![]() The band was invited to meet with Elvis at his Los Angeles hotel room - Presley was staying in the royal suite on the top floor. “He knew that we were selling tickets faster than him and he wanted to know what kind of phenomenon this was,” Robert told Howard. I just knew the voice … it just was celestial,” Robert said, explaining he had no access to video of Elvis’s moves - he could only hear his music on the radio.įast forward a few years to Led Zeppelin hitting it big and actually catching the King’s attention. “I didn’t know what he danced like, to be honest. All rights reserved.Music was an interest of Plant’s from a very early age and he recalled for Howard how he would pretend to be rock superstar Elvis Presley as a kid growing up in England. Land, American investor (born 1909, died this date in 1991).Ĭopyright 2019, The Associated Press. Thought for Today: “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” - Edwin H. Rock musician Sean Woolstenhulme (WOOL’-sten-hyoolm) is 38. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 46. Country singer Janis Gill (aka Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 65. Rock singer Mike D’Abo (Manfred Mann) is 75. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Robert Clary is 93. After Delta reacted to the Florida school massacre by announcing that it would no longer offer discount fares to NRA members, pro-gun Georgia lawmakers killed a proposed tax break on jet fuel that would have saved the airline millions of dollars. Kroger said it was raising the minimum age to buy guns at its Fred Meyer stores, becoming the third major retailer to place restrictions on gun sales that exceed those in federal law. would impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, escalating tensions with China and other trading partners and raising the prospect of higher prices for Americans stocks closed sharply lower on fears of a trade war, with the S&P 500 losing more than 1 percent for a third straight day. One year ago: President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. French filmmaker Alain Resnais, director of such art house classics as “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and “Last Year at Marienbad,” died in Paris at age 91. At a one-day summit in Brussels, European Union leaders flatly rejected a new multibillion euro bailout for eastern Europe.įive years ago: Russian troops took over Crimea as the parliament in Moscow gave President Vladimir Putin a green light to use the military to protect Russian interests in Ukraine. ![]() Ten years ago: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations concluded its 14th annual summit in Thailand by vowing to push ahead with plans to become a European Union-style economic community by 2015. In 1990, the controversial Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on line after two decades of protests and legal struggles. In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland he died 65 days later. 1975, although Mardian’s conviction was later reversed.) (These four defendants were convicted in Jan. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. In 1974, seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Capitol the radical group Weather Underground claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn blast. In 1971, a bomb went off inside a men’s room at the U.S. In 1966, the Soviet space probe Venera 3 impacted the surface of Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another planet however, Venera was unable to transmit any data, its communications system having failed. ![]()
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