The Song Robert Plant Wrote That Expressed The Broken Relationship With Led Zeppelin

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

John Bonham had convinced Robert Plant to get back to songwriting, but during their time at Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire, England, it was Plant and the band's bassist (and multi-instrumentalist), John Paul Jones, doing the heavy lifting, according to Far Out Magazine. During rehearsals, the band got work done on a song, "Carouselambra," that encapsulated the singer's feelings about his bandmates, lead guitarist Jimmy Page, and Bonham, whose hard-partying ways were causing a deep rift, per "From a Whisper to a Scream" and Far Out Magazine.

This would continue into the album's recording in November and December 1978 at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where the band split into two camps, with Plant and Jones arriving on time and working through the day and Page and Bonham rolling in late and recording their parts late into the night, per "Led Zeppelin: The Complete UK Vinyl Discography." Jones chalked this up to Page and Bonham dealing with drug and alcohol issues while he and Plant were in the "clean camp," according to the book.

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