The 1960s band Robert Plant “followed” around before forming Led Zeppelin and ripping them offIt was a rare sunny day in Birmingham, and puzzled old folks in flat caps looked on at a hippie being paraded through the streets like counterculture’s inverse Christ. Pickets were held aloft, saying, “Legalise pot”, and “Robert Plant must go free”. “I loved it, Muddy Waters recorded it but I couldn’t sing like Muddy Waters so it wasn’t that much of a nick.” Plant was often among them, as the singer recalled, “That’s where Jimmy Page and Robert Plant heard it. Robert Plant used to follow us around.