Record Store Day honors Plant
Record Store Day 2026 is set for Apr 18 and Robert Plant will be honored as this year’s “Record Store Legend,” with Plant, Saving Grace, and Suzi Dian also slated to release a four‑track EP called Saving Grace: All That Glitters this year. The event is being framed as the 19th annual celebration with limited releases, in‑store performances and special exclusives from artists like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen. ( )
Robert Plant is getting Record Store Day’s “Record Store Legend” honor just 10 days before the 2026 event, and the award is still rare enough that Record Store Day says Elton John was the first recipient in 2017 and Johnny Marr got it in 2025. (goldminemag.com) The date this year is Saturday, April 18, 2026, and Record Store Day says thousands of independent shops around the world will mark it with limited releases, store events, and live performances. (goldminemag.com) Plant is not just being used as a face on a poster. He also has a new 12-inch vinyl extended play record tied directly to the day, called *Saving Grace: All That Glitters... with Suzi Dian*, and Record Store Day lists it as an exclusive release limited to 3,500 copies. (recordstoreday.com) That record connects to the band Plant has been touring and recording with in recent years. Nonesuch says Saving Grace and singer Suzi Dian are part of the same lineup behind Plant’s recent *Saving Grace* album, built around musicians from the English countryside where he lives. (nonesuch.com) The four songs on the extended play record show what this version of Plant is doing now, which is less stadium rock and more folk and Americana. Record Store Day lists the tracks as “Blackest Crow,” “Poison,” “Orphan Girl,” and “She Cried,” all as new studio recordings. (recordstoreday.com) The wider release slate shows why Record Store Day still works like a treasure hunt instead of a normal release Friday. Uncut’s 2026 guide highlights special editions and exclusives from Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen, which means fans often line up for one artist and leave with three others. (uncut.co.uk) Record Store Day started in 2008, so calling 2026 the 19th annual edition sounds off by one until you remember there was no event in 2020 because of the pandemic shutdowns. The official count still lands on 19 celebrations by April 2026. (goldminemag.com) The Plant announcement also leans on record-store history, not just rock-star history. Billboard says he visited Spillers Records in Cardiff, which is widely billed as the world’s oldest record store, for the 2026 campaign. (billboard.com) That is the whole pitch of Record Store Day in one image: a 77-year-old singer from one of rock’s biggest bands being honored not for arena sales, but for showing up in the kind of shop that survives on one-day queues, small-batch vinyl, and customers who still want to flip through bins by hand. (yahoo.com)
