TGP WilsonRobert Plant visited Spillers Records in Cardiff, the world's oldest record storeLed Zeppelin superstar Robert Plant left shoppers dazed and confused when he was spotted crate digging in the world's oldest record store.
The band, perhaps the biggest on the planet in the 1970s, have long held associations with Wales.
In 1970 they moved into Bron Yr Aur cottage, near Machynlleth, Powys, and three months later had written 'Led Zeppelin III'.
With Record Store Day on 18 April Plant has been named as this year's "record store legend".
The 77-year-old wanted his plaque recording the fact placed in Spillers Records, in Cardiff's Morgan Arcade.
Calling himself Record Store Day's "director of organisations and prosecutions", the singer dubbed Spillers an institution.
He said: "Quite a lot of my friends were based either around Rockfield Studios, up in Monmouth, or in this area.
"So there was always a meeting point. Why not pop in here? And then perhaps a pint of Brains, I don't know.
"The people who were looking after the stores were as keen as we were to dig in, get the groove of it all.
TGP WilsonPlant described Spillers as "hallowed territory" "And I never, very, very seldom, did I ever have any money to buy anything, but I listened to a lot of music, thanks to the people in the store."
He described it as "hallowed territory", adding: "It belonged to us as a youth culture then. It had its own language, it was a place to hang out. Meet girls!"
Spillers owner, Ashli Todd, said the universe already recognised Plant as a legend.
She said: "Record shops of the world will know first-hand that above all, Robert Plant is a connoisseur of his craft whose appetite for musical discoveries has not waned with the passage of time."
It was, she said, an honour to be the site of his record store legend plaque.
Robert Plant is marking Record Store Day 2026 with an exclusive four-track EP, called Saving Grace: All That Glitters.
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