Robert Plant                                                Robert Anthony Plant   CBE  (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the English  rock  band  Led Zeppelin  for all of its existence from 1968 up until 1980.                                Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin from the late 1960s to the end of the 1970s. He developed a compelling image as the  charismatic  rock-and-roll front man, similar to those of contemporaries such as  Mick Jagger  of  the Rolling Stones ,  Roger Daltrey  of  the Who ,  Jim Morrison  of  the Doors , and  Freddie Mercury  of  Queen .           ...