2018 Robert Plant Australian Tour Tee-shirt
The four symbols on the Led Zeppelin IV album were controversial at the time.
The band members themselves never came straight out and said what they meant.
Page once said: "We decided that on the fourth album, we would deliberately play down the group name, and there wouldn't be any information whatsoever on the outer jacket. Names, titles and things like that do not mean a thing. . . . I had to talk like hell to get that one done."
Adds Robert Plant: "Each of us decided to go away and choose a metaphysical type of symbol which somehow represented each of us individually--be it a state of mind, an opinion, or something we felt strongly about, or whatever. Then we were to come back together and present our symbols."
Robert Plant's Symbol (circle around a feather) features the feather of Ma'at, the Egyptian goddess of justice and fairness.
It is also the emblem of a writer.
Plant says the symbol he created was drawn from sacred symbols of the ancient Mu civilization, a fantastical place that supposedly existed until 14,000 years ago. The last remnants are said to be the primitive statues at Easter Island.
The back of the 2018 Robert Plant Australian Tour Tee-shirt features his feather symbol.
2018 Robert Plant Australian Tour Tee-shirt
The four symbols on the Led Zeppelin IV album were controversial at the time.
The band members themselves never came straight out and said what they meant.
Page once said: "We decided that on the fourth album, we would deliberately play down the group name, and there wouldn't be any information whatsoever on the outer jacket. Names, titles and things like that do not mean a thing. . . . I had to talk like hell to get that one done."
Adds Robert Plant: "Each of us decided to go away and choose a metaphysical type of symbol which somehow represented each of us individually--be it a state of mind, an opinion, or something we felt strongly about, or whatever. Then we were to come back together and present our symbols."
Robert Plant's Symbol (circle around a feather) features the feather of Ma'at, the Egyptian goddess of justice and fairness.
It is also the emblem of a writer.
Plant says the symbol he created was drawn from sacred symbols of the ancient Mu civilization, a fantastical place that supposedly existed until 14,000 years ago. The last remnants are said to be the primitive statues at Easter Island.
The back of the 2018 Robert Plant Australian Tour Tee-shirt features his feather symbol.