Robert Plant honored
Record Store Day named Robert Plant its latest “Record Store Legend,” a formal honor that ties his career to independent record-store culture and timed RSD activity this spring. ( ) Plant is also linked to a new four-track EP — Saving Grace: All That Glitters — credited to him with Saving Grace and singer Suzi Dian, giving collectors a concrete release to hunt for around RSD. (everettpost.com)
Robert Plant is not just getting a plaque this spring. He is getting a new vinyl release attached to it, so the honor comes with something fans can actually line up to buy on Record Store Day on April 18, 2026. (recordstoreday.com) Record Store Day named Plant its latest “Record Store Legend” on April 8, 2026, and the award is a joint honor from the United States and United Kingdom branches of the event. (recordstoreday.co.uk) That matters in this corner of music because Record Store Day was built around independent shops, not streaming platforms. The event says it began in 2007 and held its first celebration on April 19, 2008, to spotlight nearly 1,400 independently owned stores in the United States and thousands more abroad. (recordstoreday.com) Plant fits that world better than a lot of legacy rock stars because the citation for the award is not only Led Zeppelin-sized fame. Record Store Day said the honor also recognizes his support for new artists, record shops, and the wider store community. (goldminemag.com) The ceremony was staged at Spillers Records in Cardiff, Wales, which is widely billed as the world’s oldest record store. Record Store Day’s United States site said Plant visited Spillers to oversee installation of the official plaque there. (recordstoreday.com, billboard.com) The release tied to the moment is a four-track vinyl extended play record called *Saving Grace: All That Glitters… with Suzi Dian*. Nonesuch said it arrives on Record Store Day, April 18, 2026, under the credit Robert Plant and Saving Grace. (nonesuch.com) Saving Grace is Plant’s current band project, and Suzi Dian is the singer who appears on both the recent *Saving Grace* album and this new extended play record. Record Store Day’s release page says the new set contains four studio recordings made especially for the event. (recordstoreday.com, nonesuch.com) The track list leans toward the kind of songs Plant has been chasing in recent years rather than hard-rock nostalgia. Record Store Day lists “Blackest Crow,” “Poison,” “Orphan Girl,” and “She Cried” on the extended play record. (recordstoreday.com) This award is also still a small club. Record Store Day says Elton John was the first “Record Store Legend” in 2017, and Johnny Marr received the honor in 2025 before Plant took it in 2026. (recordstoreday.co.uk) So the story is not just that Robert Plant was honored. It is that Record Store Day turned the tribute into a store-floor event: a plaque at Spillers, a limited new vinyl title on the official 2026 list, and one more reason collectors will be outside independent shops before opening time on April 18. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com)
