If ever there was the embodiment of the term “front man”...our final two front men we’re celebrating this week are it.

Today, we have to put Robert Plant in his rightful place on the podium of Greatest Front Men of all time. Not only is he one of the vocal greats, and influenced countless singers and front men around the world, but his stage presence and performances are the stuff of legend.

He quit school at 16, after only 2 weeks of training to be an accountant, because he knew he had to follow his dream of being Elvis, and take the path the blues had laid for him. He was asked to join the band being revamped by Jimmy Page, to be called the “New Yardbirds”, that finally became Led Zeppelin. The rest is history!

While so many watched his performances to pick up ideas for their own shows, Robert Plant doesn’t take his stage persona too seriously, claiming he stole “a few moves from Elvis, and one or two from Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin’ Wolf and threw them all together”.

However he did it, he firmly solidified his spot in the rock pantheon as one of the Greatest Front Men of all time.

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