It’s one of the perennial mysteries associated with – why did never headline the festival? The Somerset event has taken on legendary status in British cultural life, but – for some reason – Led Zeppelin never played Glastonbury.
It’s a curious historical double-take. Led Zeppelin headlined another Somerset festival – – in 1970, well on their way to global fame.
Yet the group never quite made it to Glastonbury. In a radio interview founder Michael Eavis gave the surviving members of the band – Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones – an open invitation to headline, should they wish to.
, Eavis said it “will happen one day – I’m sure of it. They will do it.”
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He could have a point – Robert Plant and Jimmy Page played Glastonbury together in 1995, and the vocalist has returned to the farm .
In 2022, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss played Glastonbury together, and the roar of the crowd brought Robert Plant to tears.
The two performed their version of ‘When The Levee Breaks’, and the cracks in Robert Plant’s voice began to show from the sheer emotion in the performance. With the crowd chanting his name, it proved to be too much for the rock legend, who let his emotions pour out onstage.
Revisit that performance below.
