Robert Plant instructs kids to share unreleased archive of music when he dies

Led Zeppelin rocker Robert Plant has instructed his children to unveil his archive of unreleased music once he passes.

During a recent episode of his Digging Deep podcast, Plant told co-host Matt Everitt that he spent his days in lockdown archiving unreleased material from his six-decade career. Plant revealed that the material spans from his pre-Zeppelin career in 1966, through to music he’s been working on today.

“All the adventures that I’ve ever had with music and tours, album releases, projects that didn’t actually get finished or whatever it is — I just put them, itemized them all, and put everything into some semblance of order,” said Plant via COS.

“I’ve told the kids when I kick the bucket, open it to the public free of charge — just to see how many silly things there were down the line from 1966 to now. It’s a journey.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Robert Plant recited a letter from his mother he unearthed whilst digging through his archive. The hilariously sweet letter saw Plant’s mother urge him to return home and get a proper job.

“[I] found a letter from my mom that said, ‘Look, you’ve been a very naughty boy, why don’t you come back?'” the rocker relayed. “‘And also, the accountancy job is still open in Stourport-on-Severn, and why don’t you just come back home and we’ll just pretend all this stuff didn’t happen?’ And I hadn’t opened the letter until about three months ago.”

Thank god he never opened that letter. You can listen to the episode in its entirety below.

Check out ‘Bluebirds Over The Mountain’, Digging Deep with Robert Plant

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