My Robert Plant photo backstage at the smelly old Starwood in ‘77. Read the story behind the photo on my Factory 77! (Taken with Instagram)
My friend and mentor, photographer RIchard Creamer, made Robert Plant this cool t shirt that says “The Runaways”- “Robert Loves Kim!” Plant adored Richard and the t shirt. That’s MICHAEL DES BARRES, the legendary pop star next to Plant!
Rock god Robert Plant told a teenage me that I could not take a photo kicking a soccer ball in his underwear at my own park in Encino back in 1978. Yeah, sure pal. He never looked better!
In 1978 Robert Plant went fucking ape shit on me as I photographed him at my local Encino park playing soccer. I had a tip that he was there and it was all legal for me to take his photo, but he would have none of it. He surrounded me with all of his roadie-bodyguards and demanded my business card. He gave the the usual shit that I would never work in this town ( L.A.) ever again. Yeah, but I was a teenage kid and it was my fucking park so I just stood my ground and got the hell out of there. I already had my photos and you could not beat what I had already captured, a rock god with kicking a soccer ball in a skimpy speedo. I really hope that I can meet Robert for a drink one day and have a laugh about that afternoon.
Did someone ask for a Led Zeppelin photos this morning? I think so and here is one of Jimmy Page at an amazing party for The Faces at The Green House in Beverly Hills. Every star in town was there.
Zeppelin was a band that you did not want to mess with. They had surly people around them and they meant business.
