Peter Grant

Like, there are yet to be any documentaries on Netflix about famous agents.

Yes, you haven't got your equivalents of, like, your Peter Grant or your Don Arden or someone like that.

Exactly.

Whereas there are Supermenches and all that kind of stuff.

I love that.

I love Peter Grant's like, "I want to shoot a werewolf." [laughs] Okay.

John, what's yours? "I want to drive to the pub." [laughs] Um, yeah, c- I imagine Plant was first, wasn't he? Like, "I wanna be a whimsical, uh, fantastic folk hero in Wales fighting magic and dragons." Okay.

Uh, Jimmy, what's yours? [laughs] "I want to be a school master- Mm ...

I just thought-

Yeah

... oh my God, Giant Haystacks would've been brilliant for a Peter Grant biography movie.

That's...

That's what happened.

And it was self-produced because we couldn't get Peter Grant from Zeppelin or Mutt Lange from, you know, AC to, to produce us.

There's no way.

You know, uh, one, they would've laughed at us, and two, you ain't got enough money to get those guys anyway.

Her credits include On the Waterfront and North by Northwest.

A rare Led Zeppelin pressing of a Whole Lotta Love single, one, one of the only 500 copies ordered to be recalled and destroyed by manager Peter Grant has surfaced on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

They wanted all their music on albums.

Yes.

Led Zeppelin also used Headley Grange to record.

Both bands were managed by Peter Grant and recorded on the Swan Song record label.

The album was released in May 1974 and went to number one on the Billboard two hundred albums chart.

It has been certified five X platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Two singles were released from the LP.

Bad Company was an English rock band formed in London in 1973 by vocalist Paul Rodgers, Free; drummer Simon Kirke, Free; guitarist Mick Ralphs, Mott the Hoople; and bassist Boz Burrell, King Crimson.

They were managed by Led Zeppelin's manager, Peter Grant.

They released twelve studio albums, five live albums, and twenty-nine singles.

Alistair, anything to say?

Um, interesting with the, uh, role model, uh, Peter Grant, um, who was saying for like the managerial kind of thing.

Yeah.

'Cause, uh, you know, which famous Zep manager, uh, Spinal Tap manager who was kind of based on him as well.

All right.

After the song.

Oh, the song by The Fall? That does make sense, doesn't it? [laughs] Um, I like the Peter Grant kind of thing.

It gives some perspective.

He's like, oh.

So a week after that, he signed and gets to have a meeting with Peter Grant.

I'm sure that was lovely.

Yeah, that was wonderful.

They were on the same label.

You know, it's funny because that was the last thing on their mind to do that.

But Peter Grant, who Edmonds said, surprise, was very hands-on in the early part of Swan Song, tells them he wants them to go to America and open for bad company to promote that album, get it.

And so they make their U.S. debut.

Remember him? Of course, yeah.

He ran Led Zeppelin, and he was saying about, what is that, Peter Grant, their manager.

Peter Grant was famous for saying, I've never seen a manager that can draw a crowd.

The right band that can draw a crowd, then you just manage the things.

Yeah, well, he's probably one person who could have drawn a crowd.