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Keyboardist Phil Johnstone co-produced and co-wrote most of the material with Plant. Johnstone was part of a whole new band that Plant employed for this album after pretty much using the same personnel on all of his first three albums. Plant discovered Johnstone and engineer Dave Barrett after hearing a demo tape by the pair.

The resulting sound is a stylistic fusion that seamlessly combines hard rock and guitar blues with the synth-driven pop of the eighties and the then-new computer synchronization techniques. Now and Zen is also a vocal masterpiece for Plant who strikes his “mature” voice better than on any other of his eighties material. Lyrically, Plant’s songs have substance, intelligence and taste, making this a solo career high point in that area as well.

“Heaven Knows” rolls in like a fast moving storm and immediately establishes the underlying groove of Now and Zen . The song is synth heavy, but not to the point of being ludicrous like on Shaken n’ Stirred , but does contain the first appearance by Page with a dramatic guitar solo. The song topped mainstream rock charts. “Dance On My Own” starts with slight background whistling and breaks into a call-and return verse between Plant and guitarist Doug Boyle which is almost like a cheerleading chant. Overall, this song draws from good elements of all three of Plant’s previous solo albums; interesting modern guitar riffs, unique “Zeppelin-light” lead vocals, and a pleasant female backing vocal chorus.

A sterile piano guides the sound collage-ridden “Tall Cool One”, which became the top pop hit off the album. The song was Plant and Page’s response to the Beastie Boys’ unauthorized sampling of Led Zeppelin material, by sampling their own music from Zeppelin tracks “Whole Lotta Love”, “The Ocean”, “Black Dog”, “Custard Pie”, and “When the Levee Breaks”. Aside from the group’s short reunion at Live Aid in 1985, this was the first time in Plant’s solo career that he openly embraced his former band. Otherwise, “Tall Cool One” is a rather typical pop song with some really corny moments when Johnstone does the bridge rap. “The Way I Feel” completes side one as the moodiest song on the side with great atmosphere by Boyle and Johnstone beneath Plant’s soaring vocals and a fretless bass by Phil Scragg .

Early on the second side of Now and Zen is really where Plant has his musical renaissance. “Helen of Troy” comes in like a near heavy-metal tune with layered guitars above a strong bass before breaking into more pop elements during the rest of the song. A funky, syncopated rhythm persists throughout the song under all those great guitars, the first of two most guitar-centric songs on the album. “Billy’s Revenge” follows with a do-wop intro and pure rock song afterwards. Aside from a couple of short but great synth organ sections by Johnstone, this song is otherwise dominated by Boyle’s guitar while Plant’s vocals reach their highest register on the album. The frantic song comes to a crashing end, leading into the third of three great songs.

“Ship of Fools” is one of Plant’s all time classics and a true testament to his best eighties style. It is the high water mark of the album in mood, vocals, lyrics and Boyle’s guitars are at their finest, probably an all-time career highlight for him. A slight synth percussion works best on the mood of this song and the subtle instrumental outro is done with great taste, leaving the listener yearning for more.

Unfortunately, the remainder of the album does not come close to the quality of these past three songs. “Why” was co-written by engineer Robert Crash , who programmed a cheesy synth riff that prevents the song from be taken seriously. The closer “White, Clean and Neat” brings the album’s quality up slightly as an original with almost beat-like poetry with good, measured guitar lines. But the corny bridge section with spoken lines that eerily echoes the worst of Shakin’ and Stirred , leaving the overall album just shy of great.

With the critical and commercial success of Now and Zen , Robert Plant was at a high point of his solo career. Also, he further embraced his Zeppelin past by performing songs from the band on his 1988 and subsequent tours, bring his live career a balance which it had lacked for years.

Part of Classic Rock Review’s celebration of 1988 albums.

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This record is some kind of stylistic event: a seamless pop fusion of hard guitar rock, gorgeous computerization and sharp, startling songcraft. Now and Zen , Robert Plant ‘s fourth solo album, is so rich in conceptual invention that you barely notice that Plant sings better on it — with more tone, control and rhythmic acuity — than he has in the seven years since Led Zeppelin imploded. Better, in some ways, than ever.

The punning title is apt. The nine tracks on Now and Zen don’t simply sound contemporary; they point to new ways to transmute roots-rock verities of swing and harmony amid the technological conventions of late-Eighties pop. At the same time the songs show Plant humanizing and enlivening the cool synthetic sound of such Euro-synth units as Kraftwerk and D.A.F. In addition, there is a certain pop-Zen aspect to such songs as “The Way I Feel,” in which Plant sings, “The future rides beside me/Tomorrow in his hand/The stranger turns to greet me/Take me by the hand” — one of the wittier lyrical loops since Lou Reed walked hand in hand with himself through the vinyl grooves of Loaded.

Plant does have some major help on Now and Zen. It’s a tribute to his taste that after listening to the demo of “Heaven Knows” (now the album’s first single), he hired its creators, the song-writing-production team of Phil Johnstone and Dave Barrett. Johnstone and Barrett are young, hungry and gifted, and Johnstone, in particular, is invaluable — as co-writer (with Plant, on most of the tracks), coproducer (with Plant and Tim Palmer), computer programmer (with Barrett, who also helped engineer the LP) and keyboardist. There’s a freshness and excitement to the sound of this album that’s rare today — that harks back, in fact, to the sonic audacity of Zeppelin’s sainted predecessors, the Yardbirds. Even Jimmy Page, who is a guest guitarist on two of the tracks, flourishes in this hot new context.

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Now and Zen lifts off with a synthesized whoosh and remains airborne throughout. “Heaven Knows,” the lead track, is graced with a soaring, up-above-the-clouds solo by Page — but there the Zeppelin connection ends. With its clamorous hammer-and-anvil percussion and its jaded take on the new mating game (“Nothing will show as we’re shedding our clothes”), this is exactly the kind of electromantic fusion that Bryan Ferry has sought in vain for years.

The protagonist of “Heaven Knows” is distanced to the point of disconnection. Plant’s own persona, however, especially in the songs he had a hand in writing, is engagingly humane. He gently deflates his old Zep sex-stallion image (in “Dance on My Own” — a metaphor for masturbation — and in the spectacular “Tall Cool One,” which contains the curious come-on “With my one hand loose I aim to satisfy”). Instead he offers himself as is: a rocker turning forty, with deep roots in the music’s past but a lively interest in its present — and future — as well.

This is a stance that allows for both historical resonance and up-to-the-minute instrumental crunch. “Tall Cool One,” for instance, takes its title from a 1959 Wailers instrumental, its motivating stomp from a 1962 Routers hit and its underpinning riff from the Yard-birds’ own cover of the Elvis-era bopcat classic “The Train Kept A-Rollin’.” Yet, with its expertly deployed monster electronics, the song might easily be mistaken for an anthem from Kraftwerk’s computer land. “Tall Cool One” is a walloping rockabilly track that cleverly avoids all retro pretensions. (It also further bends history with another Page guitar solo, as well as computer-sampled snatches of “Whole Lotta Love” and “Black Dog,” among other Zeppelin oldies.)

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Even more complexly affecting is “White, Clean and Neat,” an extraordinary evocation of teen life in the mid-Fifties, when the arrival of rock & roll divided families and whole generations. The singer recalls the white-bread pop music that his parents loved — the songs of Pat Boone and Johnnie Ray that rock would soon displace — and his own youthful-rocker’s contempt for that music’s emotional fraudulence. (As a smarmy announcer imparts background gossip about the singer-starlet Debbie Reynolds and her then husband, Eddie Fisher — “They’re married to stay!” — Plant sings, “Beneath her skirts, between clean white sheets/It’s such a long way from the streets.”) But his youthful intolerance has clearly been tempered by the years, and his reminiscence takes on a bittersweet tone that says more about what was won and lost in that time than many a more windy critique.

It is exhilarating to discover such lyrical substance in music already so technically arresting. Plant’s young band performs with ferocious expertise (particularly amid the breathtaking roll-and-tumble rhythms of “Helen of Troy” and on the Jeff Beck-like “Billy’s Revenge”). But the central revelation here is Plant himself, whose taste and intelligence appear to have informed every stage in the making of this record. It would be unfair to call him a headbanger with brains — the lamented Zeps were much more than riff-mongering metalists. But with Now and Zen , Robert Plant does prove himself a hard rocker with a whole lotta heart.

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‘Now And Zen’: How Robert Plant’s Fourth Solo Album Made Peace With His Past

With a little help from Jimmy Page, Robert Plant returned to hard rock for the ‘Now And Zen’ album, without losing his contemporary edge.

Robert Plant ’s initial trio of solo albums proved that he could survive – and even thrive – outside of Led Zeppelin . Yet while Pictures At Eleven (1982), The Principle Of Moments (1983) and Shaken ’n’ Stirred (1985) were all well received and made the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, Plant insisted their new wave stylings should bear little resemblance to the music he’d made with his former band – a stance the vocalist felt he could relax a little when he prepared his fourth solo album, 1988’s Now And Zen .

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The backstory: “when i got back into the old shoes again, they fit real good”.

Plant’s change of heart was primarily induced by some fresh musical collaborators – not least his new keyboardist, Phil Johnstone, whose approach would also go on to influence the harder, rock-influenced records Plant created during the early 90s, such as Manic Nirvana and Fate Of Nations .

“Working with these new people brought about a different perspective of my work up until now,” Plant confessed in an interview with the Chicago Tribune in 1988. “Just sitting down and talking with Phil for several nights, really getting loose about my whole analytical process.

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“His input was great,” Plant furthered of his new collaborator, “because he comes from the punk era, and yet he has a great love of classic pop music. So as a musical entity, he is very strong, and yet a little aggressive and crazy, which is what I desperately need.”

Johnstone also encouraged Plant to make peace with his illustrious past while working on the songs for Now And Zen . Sequenced as the album’s final track, the intriguing White, Clean And Neat proved to be something of a catalyst in this process.

“We were working on White, Clean And Neat, and I had this neat riff to go with it,” Johnstone told Rolling Stone . “He said, ‘But, aw, man, but that’s bluesy .’ And I said to him, ‘But that’s what you are. You’re a blues singer.’ He’d denied that he was a blues singer for so long.”

Plant also came to acknowledge a new-found acceptance of his back catalogue: “All of a sudden I was surrounded by young guys like Phil who were saying to me, ‘Come on, that was what you did really well.’” he told the Chicago Tribune .

“And when I got back into the old shoes again, they fit real good. So I figured, why not take a look back and see the whole thing and take everything for what it was without spending so much time trying to put a value on it in contemporary terms.”

The recording: “All he had to do was play, which he did, admirably”

To the great delight of the faithful, Plant’s fresh perspective even led to him inviting his former Led Zeppelin colleague Jimmy Page to contribute to two of the stand-out tracks on Now And Zen . While Page added suitably dynamic guitar solos to the album’s bombastic opening track, Heaven Knows, and the ballsy Tall Cool One, Plant used the latter to confirm he’d not lost his contemporary edge, sampling guitar riffs from several of the best Led Zeppelin songs , among them Black Dog, Dazed And Confused and Whole Lotta Love.

“I just asked him if he would like to play on the tracks, which were already constructed before he came along,” Plant told the Chicago Tribune . “All he had to do was play, which he did, admirably.”

With production overseen by Plant, Johnstone and Tim Palmer (who later helmed the first Tin Machine album for David Bowie ), Now And Zen also leant towards the harder rock end of the spectrum on arena-sized anthems such as The Way I Feel and the roaring Helen Of Troy. However, the album’s keyboard- and sample-driven tracks (Why?; the Billy Idol-esque Dance On My Own) sounded like logical successors to the best tracks on Plant’s previous solo set, Shaken ’n’ Stirred . Elsewhere, Now And Zen came into its own on bold, genre-defying tracks such as White, Clean And Neat and the effervescent rockabilly/doo wop mash-up Billy’s Revenge, while Plant revealed he was still in exemplary vocal form on the widescreen ballad Ship Of Fools – a track that immediately established itself as one of the best Robert Plant solo songs .

The release: “Some kind of stylistic event: a seamless pop fusion”

Taken as a whole, Now And Zen made for an invigorating listen – and it still stands among the best Robert Plant albums . Originally released on 29 February 1988, its arrival was accompanied by a heartfelt Rolling Stone feature, in which the singer admitted, “I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance,” and it was hailed by a string of four- and five-star reviews, among them a Rolling Stone rave which declared the album “some kind of stylistic event: a seamless pop fusion of hard guitar rock, gorgeous computerization and sharp, startling songcraft”.

The legacy: “It is, to me, what Led Zeppelin should have been by now”

Now And Zen ’s commercial fortunes also revealed that Plant’s fanbase was more than satisfied with his new music. Going Top 10 in both the UK and the US, the album would go on to receive a triple-platinum certification stateside, becoming Plant’s biggest-selling solo release in the country – a statistic which still stands despite stiff competition from Now And Zen ’s immediate follow-up, the visceral Manic Nirvana .

Indeed, Now And Zen opened up a whole new chapter for Robert Plant. Following its release, he continued to embrace his back catalogue by performing selected Led Zeppelin songs, along with tracks from his new album, at his solo shows, and he maintained his contact with Jimmy Page, with whom he again collaborated on The Only One, for Page’s 1988 solo set, Outrider , before reuniting with his old bandmate again in the 90s, first for the live project No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded , and then again for the full studio album Walking Into Clarksdale .

“To me, this record is a very healthy, exciting, musical departure, and it runs in its own pasture,” Plant enthused to the Chicago Tribune . “It isn’t a part of the Led Zeppelin revival, and yet it is, to me, what Led Zeppelin should have been by now.”

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The ‘Now and Zen’ Song Robert Plant Took a Whole Day to Write

Robert Plant  was determined to start a new chapter after Led Zeppelin . "I wanted to establish an identity that was far removed from the howling and the mud sharks of the '70s," he told Rolling Stone in 1988.

A large part of this involved not only distancing himself from his former bandmates and other collaborators, but also pushing for a sound that could never be mistaken for his previous work. Commercial success would be welcomed, but it wasn't necessary.

"I want to cut through radio with a hot knife, this idea where they say, 'We're only gonna play stuff guaranteed on being a big hit.' I wanna stretch it out some," Plant told  Creem  in 1988. "People like Tom Verlaine [of Television] and Husker Du are making quite important music right now, and people aren't hearing it because it never gets played."

As with a number of other rock acts who found epic fame in the '70s, a new decade provided Plant with an opportunity to follow other paths with updated technologies and different collaborators.

"There were new musicians; there were new thought processes – and there was a new way of dealing with relationships," Plant told Spin in 2020. "We had to keep pushing to the left and to the right of a common language for a certain kind of eloquence or a certain skill."

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One of those new musicians was Phil Johnstone, a Led Zeppelin fan himself who was eager to help Plant both honor his illustrious past and shift away from it.

Johnstone came on board as a co-producer for 1988's  Now and Zen , and found co-writing to be decidedly easy. "We're very like-minded," Johnstone  said in 1988 , "more instinctive and immediate than calculated."

That didn't mean they weren't being diligent about their work. "It's not as if we sit down and go, 'Right, we're gonna write this song 'cause it goes like this,'" he added. "Sometimes we waffle away on our backsides, but mostly we work quite hard at the songs. 'Ship of Fools' took a whole day to write."

Lyrically, the track was Zeppelin-esque with its imagery of ocean swells and stormy seas, but it also demonstrated Plant's ability to perform a more tender, subdued vocal. Released in August 1988 as the third single from Now and Zen , "Ship of Fools" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, marking Plant's 10th trip to that list's Top 10.

Plant's continued interest in doing things differently had paid off, even if he was only changing for his own artistic satisfaction. "The more open you become as a sort of contributor, the windows swing open and fresh air comes in," he told Spin . "The color of the whole thing will change constantly, and it has done for me."

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• Other Arms Play Video
• Heaven Knows Play Video
• In the Mood Play Video
• Black Country Woman ( Led Zeppelin  song) Play Video
• Ship of Fools Play Video
• Little by Little Play Video
• Dimples ( John Lee Hooker  cover) Play Video
• Trampled Under Foot ( Led Zeppelin  song) Play Video
• Billy's Revenge Play Video
• Misty Mountain Hop ( Led Zeppelin  song) Play Video
• Tall Cool One Play Video
• Big Log Play Video
• Break On Through (to the Other Side) ( The Doors  cover) Play Video

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8 activities (last edit by ExecutiveChimp , 14 Nov 2013, 02:21 Etc/UTC )

Songs on Albums

• Black Country Woman by Led Zeppelin
• Break On Through (to the Other Side) by The Doors
• Dimples by John Lee Hooker
• In the Evening by Led Zeppelin
• Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zeppelin
• Trampled Under Foot by Led Zeppelin
• Billy's Revenge
• Heaven Knows
• Helen of Troy
• Ship of Fools
• Tall Cool One
• In the Mood
• Little by Little

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