The lead singer of English rock band Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, has revealed that visiting Morocco and indulging in its music and culture had greatly inspired him to write his song “Embrace Another Fall,” one of the English singer’s most successful hits.

Led Zeppelin’s Lead Singer Says Morocco Inspired His ‘Most Powerful’ Song

Rabat – The lead singer of English rock band Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, has revealed that visiting Morocco and indulging in its music and culture had greatly inspired him to write his song “Embrace Another Fall,” one of the English singer’s most successful hits.

In an interview with Vulture Magazine, Plant highlighted his adventures in southern Morocco in 1971 and 1972, saying: “I brought the whole thing home with ‘Embrace Another Fall,’ because I’ve taken elements of everything that I loved and that trip.”

Plant added: “I’ve always spent time in North Africa. I’ll sit somewhere out of the way in the shade and listen to life go by. I listen to the musicians moving around the cafés. The suburban players who play a sort of inverted cymbal that they bounce on their knees and play with the fretboard facing the onlooker.”

“It’s another way of doing everything,” the 74-year-old singer stressed, adding that he became “more and more engrossed” in Morocco’s way of life, culture, landscapes, music, and rhythms.

“I have a romance with Morocco — southern Morocco, specifically,” he emphasized.

For Plant, “Embrace Another Fall” was the “most powerful” song he performed live. He explained, “This song and the projection of it into a crowd was a meld of everything I hold close to me musically.”

Led Zeppelin’s lead singer detailed that the “tension and release” of the Embrace Another Fall song has been a “major moment” for him in his life.

Talking about his love for travel, Plant highlighted that embracing adventures and traveling to different parts of the world, including Southern Morocco, Texas, Oregon, and Montana, inspired his music career.

“I’ve always been as into the world as possible … It seems to me that it’s all about this great vastness of the expanse where there are so few people,” noted the English song writer.

He explained that experiencing the beauty and tranquility of these places served as meanginful experience that significantly influenced his art.