Legendary Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant was bestowed one of Britain’s highest royal honors last week, receiving the rank of Commander of the British Empire from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace last Friday.
Plants honor puts him one up on his equally infamous bandmate, Jimmy Page, who received an Order of the British Empire honor from Queen Elizabeth back in 2005 for his charity work on behalf of poor Brazilian children through Task Brazil and the ABC Trust charity organizations. Plant’s rank is one higher than Page’s.
“If we can remember each other's phone number at this time in life it's a miracle,” Plant told the Associated Press. “We're still good friends, we both enjoy a rather dark sense of humor that comes, I think, from being from rather the wrong side of the tracks for all those wild years.”
Plant is currently at work with bluegrass legend Alison Krauss on the followup to the duo’s smash hit, Raising Sand, which garnered five Grammy Awards last year.