The musician performs with his acoustic band Saving Grace in the ad Robert Plant has starred in an advert for a high-speed Italian trainline. READ MORE: Led Zeppelin – rank the albums The new ad, which you can watch below, was filmed for Italy’s Trenitalia rail service and its Frecciarossa high-speed trains. It features clips of the singer at a terminal in Rome, travelling on a train, and performing with his acoustic band, Saving Grace – whose cover of Low ‘s ‘Everybody’s Song’ soundtracks the ad.
The solo artist and former Led Zeppelin frontman is also seen having coffee with Saving Grace vocalist Suzy Dian at the first-class Freccia Lounge, and chatting to her in another moment while travelling in one of Frecciarossa’s Executive Class train cars. Earlier this year, Plant and Dian completed a UK headline tour , and performed as part of this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concert series at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March. Following the UK dates, Plant and Alison Krauss set off on a North American tour that wrapped in September, having last toured together in 2022 , which itself was their first complete tour in 12 years.
In June, they shared a new version of Led Zeppelin‘s classic track ‘When The Levee Breaks’, the duo’s first single since their second collaborative album ‘Raise The Roof’ was released in 2021. The latest version, which the pair had been performing on the North American tour, featured guitarist JD McPherson, drummer Jay Belleros.
