Robert Plant honored ahead of RSD
Record Store Day 2026 is set for Saturday April 18, and Robert Plant was named a Record Store Legend with a commemorative plaque placed at Spillers Records in Cardiff — the shop billed as the world’s oldest record store ( ). Plant also has a release angle this season: he, Saving Grace and singer Suzi Dian are listed as releasing a four‑track EP titled Saving Grace: All That Glitters (everettpost.com).
Robert Plant just got a new kind of rock-star plaque: not for a stadium or a hall of fame, but for a record shop in Cardiff called Spillers Records, where Record Store Day 2026 named him a “Record Store Legend” ahead of the April 18 event. (recordstoreday.co.uk) The ceremony happened at Spillers because the shop says it has been selling records since 1894, and Wales.com describes it as the world’s oldest record store in Cardiff’s Morgan Arcade. (wales.com) That detail matters to the story because Record Store Day was built around independent shops, not streaming apps or arena tours, and its official 2026 site lists Saturday, April 18, as this year’s celebration. (recordstoreday.com) Plant fits that shop-first image better than most classic-rock stars because Record Store Day’s UK announcement described him as a lifelong record-store regular whose interest in finding music never faded. (recordstoreday.co.uk) The award also landed in Wales for a reason beyond shop history: Official Charts said the plaque at Spillers recognized Plant’s connection to the store and to a country that has long fed into his songwriting. (officialcharts.com) This is not only a nostalgia lap for a 1970s singer, because Plant also has a new Record Store Day release tied directly to the same season. Nonesuch said Robert Plant and Saving Grace will release a vinyl extended play record called *Saving Grace: All That Glitters...* on April 18, 2026. (nonesuch.com) Saving Grace is Plant’s current band, and Nonesuch says the project also features singer Suzi Dian and musicians from the English countryside where Plant lives. (nonesuch.com) The new record is a four-track release, and the official Record Store Day listing says the songs are “Blackest Crow,” “Poison,” “Orphan Girl,” and “She Cried.” (recordstoreday.com) Those songs point away from hard rock and toward folk and Americana, because the United Kingdom Record Store Day listing says the extended play record mixes traditional material with songs linked to Bert Jansch and Gillian Welch. (recordstoreday.co.uk) So the picture here is unusually neat: Record Store Day picked a singer whose career started in giant bands, honored him in a shop founded in 1894, and tied the tribute to a new vinyl release that only exists because independent record stores still have a holiday of their own. (recordstoreday.co.uk, wales.com, recordstoreday.com)
