{"id":868518,"date":"2025-08-27T23:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/robert-plant-penned-this-led-zeppelin-deep-cut-to-out-do-young-punks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:15:55","slug":"robert-plant-penned-this-led-zeppelin-deep-cut-to-out-do-young-punks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/robert-plant-penned-this-led-zeppelin-deep-cut-to-out-do-young-punks\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Plant Penned This Led Zeppelin Deep Cut To Out-Do Young Punks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Led Zeppelin<\/strong> didn\u2019t sit back when the punk movement came along \u2013 the band decided to give as good as they got.<\/p>\n

In the late 70s, battle lines were being drawn \u2013 a new wave of groups were dismantling the largesse of the progressive era, taking rock back to small clubs in the process. Loud, raucous, and in your face, punk was designed as a Year Zero moment, demolishing all in front of it.<\/p>\n

Led Zeppelin, though, weren\u2019t to be swayed. When the band emerged in the late 60s they were the biggest, loudest, brashest phenomenon around, so singer Robert Plant opted to go toe-to-toe with punk groups in the volume stakes.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wearing And Tearing\u2019 was his riposte to the punk movement. Penned during sessions for the keyboard focussed album \u2018In Through The Out Door\u2019, it returned Led Zeppelin to their heavy roots, the crunching power chords from Jimmy Page riding one of John Bonham\u2019s most feral, animalistic drumming performances.<\/p>\n

Robert Plant loved the song<\/a><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 he wanted it released as a single ahead of their epochal 1979 show at Knebworth, but Jimmy Page wasn\u2019t so sure<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The frontman once said:<\/a><\/span><\/strong> \u201cI love \u2018Wearing and Tearing\u2019, which Page and I wrote together. We were so pissed off with the whole punk thing saying, \u2018What do those rich bastards know?\u2019 First of all, we knew that we didn\u2019t have\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>much dough. Secondly, we knew more about psychobilly than they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eventually released on the \u2018Coda\u2019 collection \u2013 released in the aftermath of Bonham\u2019s death, and the group\u2019s split \u2013 \u2018Wearing And Tearing\u2019 has come to be adored by Led Zeppelin fans.<\/p>\n

When Robert Plant and Jimmy Page performed at Knebworth in 1990, the singer finally got his way \u2013 \u2018Wearing And Tearing\u2019 was loud and proud on the set list.<\/p>\n

The first time \u2018Wearing And Tearing\u2019 was ever performed live, you can revisit that moment below.<\/p>\n

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