Re: Plant given a CBE

[Steve Thomson <zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eddie Lombardi wrote:
> Plant is heavily involved in his local community up in the midlands.
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Yep, the local vintners are happy that he keeps buying up all that wine 
Mick Wall claims he sits home drinking while watching Frasier. :)
> The public and the government make the nominations so I guess someone must 
> think he is doing something worthy.
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Of course he`s done something worthy. He sang for the world`s most 
popular rock group. To the public he's the voice of Led Zeppelin; to the 
government, he's a source of considerable revenue.
> Eddie
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> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:35:07 -0500
> > From: zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Plant given a CBE
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> > Nech wrote:
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> > > OK so someone needs to answer me this... Robert apparently seems to
> > > have gotten a higher honor... but for what ? At least with Jimmy we
> > > know it was for all of his work with ABC Casa Jimmy etc etc...
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> > Maybe Lizzy likes gold ol' down home hoedown fiddle music and liked
> > Raising Sand. ;-)
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> > Seriously, the only charity work I`ve ever heard of Plant doing was
> > something last year. I can`t recall the charity but there was a photo op
> > with Percy driving a tractor of something. Then there was the work he
> > did with Jimmy raising funds for Second Harvest during the `95 tour. I
> > assume Plant was also involved although Jimmy was the one who showed up
> > with the T-shirt for encores.
> >
> > But the ultimate line from QEII would be if she looked at him and asked,
> > "Oh yes, and when ARE your going on tour with the other fellow again?"
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