Robert Plant talks Led Zeppelin’s break-up and the addiction which drives him, announces 2022 tour with Alison Krauss.

Robert Plant has announced a summer 2022 tour alongside Alison Krauss, and revealed that memories of suggestions that he might retire from the music business in 1980 after Led Zeppelin disbanded have served as a spur for him to keep “a foot on the pedal.”.

The singer talks of his desire to keep pushing forward in a new interview with UK newspaper The Telegraph.

Summing up his Zeppelin experience in just three short sentences in the article, Plant says: “We made great music.

As evidence of his desire to keep moving, the November 19 release of Raising The Roof, Plant’s second collaborative album with bluegrass legend Alison Krauss, has been accompanied by an announcement that the duo will play shows in the US and in Europe in summer 2022

On their first road-trip together in 13 years, Plant and Krauss will visit the following venues next summer:

Jul 16: Stuttgart JazzOpen Stuttgart 2022, GER

In his interview with The Telegraph’s Chief Music Critic Neil McCormick, Plant talks of his joy at discovering American blues artists as a teenager - “You want music that’ll blow the ducks out of the pond when you’re trying to get above the sound of adolescence” he notes - and insists that his appetite for making music remains as keen as ever, some 41 years after Led Zeppelin bowed out