[TalBlack]

I’d never heard he had the surgery. The results of such surgery can be hit or miss.

Some of the live recordings of Plant circa 68/69 are amazing. He had a sound like no one else.

[dfwgator]

Some of the live recordings of Plant circa 68/69 are amazing. He had a sound like no one else.

And I'm sure that's how Plant wants people to remember him, instead of a 60+ year old man singing "Squeeze my lemon until the juice runs down my leg."

[ifinnegan]

“He had a sound like no one else.”

Yeah. Like a hysterical shrew or a castrato.

[Olog-hai]

That’s true, although he had some close imitators, e.g. John Lawton (Lucifer’s Friend, Uriah Heep).