Fate of Nations is Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

 singer Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...

's sixth studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

. It was released in 1993 and re-released in a remaster

Remaster

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ed edition on March 20, 2007. It features former Cutting Crew

Cutting Crew

The Cutting Crew is a pop rock band formed in England in 1985, best known for their #1 hit, " Died in Your Arms".-Career:Vocalist Nick Van Eede founded the group along with Canadian guitarist Kevin MacMichael in 1985, and the two made demos that led to a recording contract, before bassist Colin...

 guitarist Kevin Scott MacMichael. The lead singer of Clannad, Máire Brennan is featured on the track "Come into my Life". The song "I Believe" is a tribute to his late son, Karac.

Plant explained his album in the following terms:
The album was Plant's last completely solo album until his comeback with his seventh studio album Dreamland

Dreamland (Robert Plant album)

Dreamland is singer Robert Plant's seventh solo album and the first with the band "Strange Sensation". The album was released in July 2002.Many of the songs are cover versions, mainly blues, but also some rock...

in 2002.

Track listing

1. "Calling to You" (Chris Blackwell, Robert Plant) – 5:48
2. "Down to the Sea" (Charlie Jones, Plant) – 4:00
3. "Come into my Life" (Blackwell, Doug Boyle, Kevin MacMichael, Plant) – 6:32
4. "I Believe"
   I Believe (Robert Plant song)
   "I Believe" is a song from Robert Plant's 1993 Fate of Nations LP. The song was written for and dedicated to Plant's late son, Karac....
   
    (Phil Johnstone, Plant) – 4:32
5. "29 Palms
   29 Palms (song)
   29 Palms is a song from Robert Plant's 1993 Fate of Nations LP. The song was written about the small town of 29 Palms in the Mojave desert, and is said to be based on Canadian singer Alannah Myles, with whom he was touring when he wrote the song....
   
   " (Blackwell, Boyle, Johnstone, Jones, Plant) – 4:51
6. "Memory Song (Hello Hello)" (Boyle, Jonstone, Jones, Plant) – 5:22
7. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin
   Tim Hardin
   James Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...
   
   ) – 3:45
8. "Colours of a Shade" (Plant, Johnstone, Blackwell, Allcock) - 4:43 (UK edition. Also bonus track on some editions)
9. "Promised Land" (Johnstone, Plant) – 4:59
10. "The Greatest Gift" (Blackwell, Jonstone, Jones, MacMichael, Plant) – 6:51
11. "Great Spirit" (Johnstone, MacMichael, Plant) – 5:27
12. "Network News" (Blackwell, Plant) – 6:40

2007 remaster bonus tracks

• "Colours of a Shade" – 4:45
• "Great Spirit" (acoustic mix) - 3:54
• "Rollercoaster" (demo) - 4:01
• "8:05" - 1:49
• "Dark Moon" (acoustic) - 4:57

Musicians

• Robert Plant
• Kevin Scott MacMichael - guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Oliver J. Woods - guitar
• Charlie Jones
  Charlie Jones (musician)
  Charlie Jones is a British bassist, songwriter and record producer. He has toured and recorded with Robert Plant, Page and Plant, The Strange Sensation, Goldfrapp and many others. He was married to Robert Plant's daughter Carmen Plant, they divorced in 2010....
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Chris Hughes - drums
  Drum kit
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• Pete Thompson
  Pete Thompson
  -Early life:Pete Thompson was born in Essex, England and started his life in Southend-on-Sea. He admits in his biography on his official website that when he was a child he, and quote, "was always tapping and singing and generally driving my teachers and parents mad." He got his first drum kit in...
  
   - drums
• Nigel Kennedy
  Nigel Kennedy
  Nigel Kennedy is a British born violinist and violist. He made his early career in the classical field, and he has performed and recorded most of the major violin concerti...
  
   - violin
  Violin
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• Richard Thompson - guitar
• Francis Dunnery
  Francis Dunnery
  Francis Dunnery is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner. He is best known as a solo performer , and for fronting the original lineup of the band It Bites between 1982 and 1990 .Dunnery served as a sideman and...
  
   - guitar
• Phil Johnstone
  Phil Johnstone
  Phil Johnstone is a songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist and record producer, best known for his work with singer Robert Plant. His songwriting credits include Plant's number-one Mainstream Rock hits "Heaven Knows", "Tall Cool One" and "Hurting Kind ".- Details :Johnstone first worked with Plant on...
  
   - harmonium
  Harmonium
  A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...
  
  
• Nigel Eaton
  Nigel Eaton
  Nigel Eaton is an English hurdy gurdy player. He originally played the piano and cello but switched to the hurdy gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began making them. He performed as part of the dance band Blowzabella from 1985 and recorded five albums with them before their split in...
  
   - hurdy gurdy
  Hurdy gurdy
  The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to a violin...
  
  
• Máire Brennan - backing vocals
• Michael Lee
  Michael Lee (musician)
  Michael Lee was an English drummer who toured and recorded with former Led Zeppelin musicians Robert Plant and Jimmy Page....
  
   - drums
• Maartin Allcock
  Maartin Allcock
  Maartin Allcock , also known as Martin Allcock, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer.-Biography:...
  
  - all instruments except drums and vocals on "Colours of a Shade"