"I don't know that I feel anything like that really. You see, if you aim for the marketplace 100%, like Jimmy Page did, or Robert Plant particularly did, if you aim for the marketplace 100% and you don't get it, then that's a failure of intelligence because you've got, say with Plant, you've got a pop talent that's massive there, there's a massive talent. He knows how to take an old blues song that's been around for a hundred years, and turn it into something that's immediately AM radio for 18 year-olds. That's a huge pop talent. If you go for that and you fail, you fail because you haven't got it upstairs. That's to say, if you've got the amount of talent that he's got vocally, and as a stage performer. But mine... Jesus, I wouldn't think... you see, I'm such an oddball. The longer I live the more I know that I could never have got through, never... what did you say?" - Roy Harper.
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February 14, 1974 - Page, Plant and Bonham attend a Roy Harper concert
February 4, 1975 - Zeppelin perform a last minute show at Nassau Coliseum to accomodate fans after being banned in Boston
February 24, 1975 - Physical Graffiti finally issued worldwide to phenomenal sales
February 1976 - Media reports that Zeppelin are due to release an album entitled Obelisk
February 1977 - Robert contracts a bout of tonsillitis postponing the American tour
February 1978 - Robert Plant helps produce a record for punk band Dansette Damage
February 16, 1978 - The cases against Bonham, Cole & Grant stemming from the Oakland incident are heard and all receive suspended prison sentences and fines
February 1979 - Although absent from the US stage or market, Led Zeppelin rank best in many music magazine categories
February 1979 - Mixing sessions for ITTOD take place at Polar Studios. Rumors fly of a European tour
February 3, 1980 - Robert joins Dave Edmund's Rockpile at the Birmingham Top Rank
