Plant’s second solo LP spawned the hit Big Log.
Robert Plant's second solo outing shares more than a few things with its predecessor. It was recorded at the famous Welsh studio Rockfield and featured most of the Pictures at Eleven band, including a moonlighting Phil Collins on drums. As with Pictures, its production was as polished and clinical as the early Led Zeppelin sound was primal and thunderous.
But this time Plant managed a big hit – with Big Log – and promoted it with a clip for the now-essential televisual shop window that was MTV. He even performed the song on Top of the Pops, that biggest of Led Zeppelin no-nos.
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