Neil Young's Ditch Trilogy -- consisting of "Time Fades Away", "Tonight’s the Night" & "On the Beach" -- is well documented as containing the "missing link" to the Rosetta Stone of understanding his entire body of work over the decades.From The Beautiful, Enduring Gloom of Neil Young's Ditch Trilogy | Pandora Music by Eric Shea: Over four decades later, Young’s darkest and most emotional work still connects.In 1975, Plant and his wife Maureen (now divorced) were seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece.This significantly affected the production of Led Zeppelin's seventh album Presence for a few months while he recovered, and forced the band to cancel the remaining tour dates for the year.Plant: I was appearing at this college when Peter and Jimmy turned up and asked me if I'd like to join the Yardbirds.I knew the Yardbirds had done a lot of work in America – which to me meant audiences who would want to know what I might have to offer – so naturally I was very interested.Page: When I auditioned him and heard him sing, I immediately thought there must be something wrong with him personality-wise or that he had to be impossible to work with, because I just could not understand why, after he told me he'd been singing for a few years already, he hadn't become a big name yet.So I had him down to my place for a little while, just to sort of check him out, and we got along great. With a shared passion for music, Plant and Page immediately developed a strong relationship, and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs.
He grew up close to the Welsh border and would often take summer trips to Snowdonia.In 2006, Heavy Metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time".Robert Anthony Plant was born on 20 August 1948, in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, to Robert C.Give this doomed triptych a spin, and it becomes understandable why the palpable emotion and raw desperation running through these three albums remain hauntingly relevant.Young recorded On the Beach in 1973, but listen for the title track’s most timeless lyric: “All my pictures are falling from the wall where I placed them yesterday / The world is turning / I hope it don’t turn away.”Full article @ The Beautiful, Enduring Gloom of Neil Young's Ditch Trilogy | Pandora Music by Eric Shea.