Very Moving, Very Planty
Goodbye To A Rare Gem
Traditional it wasn’t. Any black clothing on view was largely accompanied, on request, by dashes or swathes of gold. There were no hymns and the only prayer was one written by his wife, Andrea, whose outfit of choice was a Wolves shirt from the Astropay era. The entrance music – a nod to the unrelated Robert Plant – was Stairway To Heaven. We exited to AC/DC’s Highway To Hell and, macabre though it may seem to those not in the loop, Living In A Box was played mid-way through. Steve Plant decided long ago that normal conventions weren’t for him.