Robert Plant and Cozy Powell on Tiswas (1981)

[@1e0s]

This really was absolute chaos. I loved it. What a time t be alive as a kid

[@joethelion6016]

Totally agree. I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's and turned 20 in the early 80's 🎉🥳🍾🎈👯

[@somebody4244]

No matter where you see Robert or in what capacity, it’s always clear that he is a kind and down to earth person.

[@garypeacock5919]

I was lucky enough to meet him at radio clyde studios in Glasgow about 8 months after this when he was promoting 'pictures at 11', he couldn't have been nicer, signing autographs and posing for photos.

[@bigtwit799]

Really? I like him though!

[@JJONNYREPP]

Robert Plant and Cozy Powell on Tiswas (1981) 2359pm 18.9.22 sadly varter would not let me watch tiswas. so i have no concept of tiswas, your mind set or birmingham. and the automotive society is a no-no. frank carson was rubbish... as was you ama so said the why dont you... norn kid who couldn't comprehend why i wouldn't watch why dont you eire...

[@graemegoodaker8960]

He used to go in The Mitre in Stourbridge. He knocked my pint over once! Couldn't have been more appologetic and bought me another one straight away!

[@joethelion6016]

and the best British rock singer that ever was

[@SilverLine269]

A show with no ego's. Loved these times

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

Cozy Powell a superb underappreciated drummer. RIP.

[@OlafProt]

Huh?! If there’s one thing Cozy Powell was not, it’s under appreciated…

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

@@OlafProt Ian Paice??

[@RoyPage1970]

Good but no bonzo​@@jamsheadaziz3999

[@Trookieness]

Cozy Powell and Robert Plant are such good sports - and utter sweethearts!

[@mikehumble1120]

I'm 43 years old and still LOVE this show!

[@parkviewmo]

This is amazing! Cozy Powell, Robert Plant and pies! What could be better!

[@michaelstephen819]

Gives a new meaning to Custard Pie, eh?

[@metalwolf1978]

Could be better - Cozy with Robert on stage, but its impossible.

[@mariadanielaoliveracalvo7040]

@@michaelstephen819 "I just want a piece of your custard pie." -Led Zeppelin.

[@robicenco1]

Gillan, The Cure, Robert Plant and Cozy Powell on Saturday morning kids' tv... I was born ten years too late.

[@lukessummerguitar]

Den Hegarty from Darts at 9:48 as well!

[@oddities-whatnot]

Total chaos. Completely disorganised and absolutely bloody brilliant. Sally James was the reason so many adult men watched this im sure !

[@mikewa2]

And so many stars agreed to join in on the madness

[@lescorlett4133]

For a teenage lad in the late 70's Sally James was it, absolutely stunning. Loved the show to bits and always did the 'Dying Fly'. Great times.

[@ThaiThom]

Two of the greatest of all time getting pies thrown in their faces! Priceless!

[@theflyingdonkeypunch]

It's amazing seeing Robert here. Not that long before he was this golden God who was almost mythical. He aged a lot after Zeppelin broke up but it's nice seeing the more human side of him. As if the last 12 years were a dream

[@keira1989]

This is sooo adorable. Robert and Cozy!!!

[@campfreddy3547]

beyond epic Robert Plant and Cosy Powell can't get better.

[@trxxxtr]

kids had no idea how lucky they were on this day to be there with Robert and cozy.....wow

[@timdogdawg4099]

Aww man, i just smiled with joy all the way through this!Tiswas was probably one of the greatest tv shows ever made! Many thanks to you uploader 👍

[@rockpig63]

Wow,musicians with style ,charisma,intelligence and charm. Where did they go????

[@amk8411]

Bloodclarts outbred them

[@VonDrumhamma]

Noooooooooooooo fcukin way! This is HILARIOUS. And UNBELIEVABLE!! Plant & Cozy on a kids show called Tiswas!! No fcuking waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! LoL

[@cricketbat09]

Kids who liked rock music used to watch Tiswas. Disco lovers watched Swapshop.

[@mattspires6326]

This is from my recording I made off air at the time. I'm the blond kid at 11:18 who announces the Tweetie Pie cartoon!

[@parkviewmo]

Thank you! What a great thing to have to remember!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

haha great stuff

[@EllPhillip]

you had a VCR back in 1981 ? Wow , probably cost 10 G's back then.

[@mattspires6326]

I have a vague memory that my dad was able to hire one from Radio Rentals - or an equivalent - just for the weekend. I certainly remember having the tape and being incredibly frustrated that I couldn't actually watch the thing for some considerable time afterwards ...

[@RocksteadyRuth]

You lucky kid...any memorabilia from it? Signed records, posters or scrap book autograph? Wow, what a memory....gotta love it

[@ladytron9188]

Started of as children’s program and ended up being watched by more adults on a Saturday morning.😂😂😂😂

[@RocksteadyRuth]

So true, yep, thanks to my previous husband, we often sat down in front of this show. How life changed.

[@SophieW-z9r]

Red eyed still stoned from the night before adults at that! Lol

[@spmoran4703]

Some of the jokes were adult to.

[@anthonycarty9433]

Can't think why . ( Sally James )

[@Baltihunter]

And there was the short lived night time version

[@VashTheStampede4K]

Beautiful old and happy times... early '80s. I love Robert Plant's first two solo albums (Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments), great music.

[@jeffbogue3718]

That is awesome to see Robert Plant and cozy Powell on Saturday morning kids show from England . I saw cozy Powell with rainbow in 1978 but I didn't see Robert Plant and tell the page plant tour in 1998. Both Masters at their craft and cool people

[@blackers0665]

Someone noticed Robert's kiss to the little girl on her cheek at 6:05 ? THAT WAS SO FUCKING CUTE I CAN'T HANDLE IT

[@mariadanielaoliveracalvo7040]

Yes, so cute.

[@robertcarli1969]

​@@mariadanielaoliveracalvo7040pedophile😢

[@sodapopinski690]

Plant's first 2 solo albums were fantastic. Love this period of his music, he had a chance to expand on the Zep sound and took advantage. Phil Collins played on a few tracks as well. The songs still hold up.

[@brianlobo7163]

Yeah Cozy should have played more on Plant's first album...

[@rokker101]

One of THE best kids shows ever! .. although I think that just as many adults watched it too lol

[@countchocula776]

Finally.. Robert Plant and Cozy Powell on the same stage.. I always hoped that Cozy would join Zeppelin after the death of Bonzo

[@saralemirande3504]

The timing was right BUT I think Led Zepplin was a blood oath, either Jimmy, Robert, Bonzo and John Paul wers Led Zepplin or there was no Led Zepplin

[@kingbolo4579]

@@saralemirande3504 I heard they considered Barriemore Barlow.

[@petervanrhein699]

That would have been EPIC! My two all time heroes (being a drummer)

[@Drumming-Life]

This was recorded on my 11th birthday. How cool.

[@naysayer1238]

3 days after mine! haha Cheers.

[@petemarr824]

The good old days where they would read out your complete address to millions!

[@matskieden511]

Crazy!

[@anthonyJameszxu]

Robert was like a different person during this era specially the early 80's. His personality here is so down to earth.

[@jada840]

I'm American and I never even thought about what British kids used to watch and watch now I just assumed we all watched the same thing this is wild😂

[@john111257]

fantastic days..robert plant and cozy on primetime kids tv

[@BlackOfJuly]

I had such a mad crush on Cozy when I was 10 :-D Couldn't get enough of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

[@ohsweetladyjane]

11:11- his smile makes me dream with love❤...

[@arthurdduda8233]

If i ever meet Robert Plant I now know what to ask him about !

[@lidijatravina7438]

Весело у вас было в 1981. У нас в СССР тоже : я ждала рождения дочки на Севере , там было холодно и родила дочку в Риге.

[@jacnah63]

sally James...an entire generation of men thinking exactly the same thing right now! :-)

[@knoxyish]

oh yes!! i was 25/6 at this time sally was the sexiest lady ever in that ringmasters outfit!!!!!!!oohhhh yeah!

[@WarrenCromartie2]

I loved this show :-) I remember this episode with Plant and Powell, great fun. I remember Phil and Mike from Genesis on there too, being flanned!

[@andrewstafford3618]

To get to the point this is how good kids tv was before the Internet, mobile phones and political correctness. Oh and Sally James wasn't covered in fake tan with drawn on eyebrows.

[@Nick68S]

Robert Plant wearing a Cozy Powell t-shirt.

[@jimlamanna9712]

Nick Simpson Actually sad to see him like that only 1 year after LZ split up

[@EdwardHester3615]

Cozy and plant! 2 legends relaxed and having fun. Gotta make ya smile

[@josenanettesousa4195]

Robert Plant é tão lindo, fofo e simpático!

[@JJONNYREPP]

allen walker replied: "Draw a hexagon. The cosine is square root of .75. Add one (the opposite arc) and look up the speed of light in miles persecond."

[@robertcarli1969]

@@JJONNYREPP cozy more handsome

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@robertcarli1969 Robert Plant and Cozy Powell on Tiswas (1981) 0247am 2.11.22 at least they got the stars on that tawdry and ad hoc show. even if it was too bloody early for most of 'em to comprehend what was going on...i wasn't particularly allowed to watch this tiswas thing. no idea why. and it shows!! you can tell those who weren't tiswas aficionados - they sit in corners in pubs and grimace at folk or try to get jobs with the civil service even though they're well past that level of spite, they lifeless sporrans of cynicism and have no time for the joys of others. they harbour grudges like fleas. they stink!!! they just end up becoming would-be sophisticates... the only thing i will say, in a tiswas-less life's favour - is that they, the absentee-ists, never suffered from acne as youths. noel edmonds has something about him which has the child shun spots and worries about gurls or homework... it is to my life's detriment that i never saw this show, tiswas, in it's entirety. just as i allus fell asleep before the porno based animation was aired via O.T.T (the adult version of tiswas)... how one gets to see aspects of O.T.T and then is forced to forgo tiswas as a youth - who knows... safe to say if yer watched m.o.t.d then yer were safe - as that cancelled out most aspects of televisual woes. as for the beauties of cozy and plant - no comment. the wonders of the band member passed me by. i am not one for mooning over pop or rock stars. they may as well have paper bags on their heads for all i care about their comeliness. 1981? i would have been 9 years of age - it was my tiser and crisps stage of life. p.s are folk still allowed to perv over sally james? p.p.s the sooty and sweepshow also managed to get strange, incongruous stars to enter the fray... light entertainment is and odd cove. pity they've nigh-on killed it.

[@josephgurzynski1053]

We lost cozy Powell way too early. Perfect balance of power and finesse behind the kit.

[@winstoncat6785]

From today's viewpoint, this is pure surrealism.

[@davidpollard3298]

Sally James brings back a few pleasant memories.

[@brendanewland6636]

Robert and Cozy are great!!

[@sanctiabluebird2711]

What the fuck... but I have to say Robert's a sweetheart when it comes to kids

[@saralemirande3504]

He us a dad and knows the pain of losing a child

[@geofflee3154]

Bring back Tiswas, if only to see how many of today's prima donna rock legends would be willing to get pied on live TV. Tiswas knew what they were doing when they booked Robert and Cozy, the kids in the studio wouldn't have a clue who they were but all the dads watching at home sure did.

[@Stu-SB]

Haha that girl squeeling with excitement at the pie thing with Plant 😂

[@sillysod33]

Sally James… Sigh… Still… After all these years…❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍

[@moletown8585]

Legendary telly! the cheapness! the reading-out-of-entire-addresses-ness! the impromptu-ness! the underlying Pythonesque-ness! the general atmosphere of baffledness! Sal's legs! the idiot Carson! the flans! the disobeying-of-the-'Never-Work-With-Children' showbiz motto! Thanks for uploading!

[@katyalacrua6793]

Cozy such a handsome at his 33 there!))

[@robertcarli1969]

Cozy😍

[@captpicard100]

Tiswas was always way cooler than Swap Shop

[@DrSoWhat]

5:45 that's the music kids grewn up with :')

[@Simpleburger1968]

Oh my gosh....it took me few moments to get that gag about the dad owning his own newspaper and it costing him 20 p.....D'oh !!!!

[@DennysFrancisco]

Cozy Powell in Led Zeppelin would be marvelous

[@michaelstephen819]

He almost was - he took some time out from Splinter Group in 98 to rehearse with Page and Plant...

[@stephaneherringtoniowritin9180]

Unfortunately,Cozy was killed in a car accident. I saw him with Black Sabbath in 1990,and he played a amazing drum solo!... Real rock star's!

[@zoso1980]

@Greg Hubbard Jason can't really even do it. Don't be silly. Jason only gives the impression he can because he tries to meticulously study his father. Jason doesn't swing like a bastard in his natural state though. Plus, Jason's fills generally are generic.

[@michaelrandle8316]

Robert Plant and Cozy Powell on a 1981 TV show. This is interesting and as a fan of both of these men's contributions to music, seeing this for the first time is weird, but appropriately English.

[@anthonynavarro6074]

I love Robert plant

[@bobosyd]

What fun! Lucky girl, to get a kiss from Robert Plant (6:05)!

[@MoveOnSoulClub]

Whhy would Robert Plant and Cozy Powell appear on Tiswaz?.... Sally James!

[@HrhFish]

It also helped to sell a few albums as well me muka!!I used to have a Chopper bike.

[@simonsedwards1513]

Mmmmmmmmm DEFINETLEY

[@LeeMcDaidDonegal]

Amazing to think that "The New Yardbirds" had existed only a short 12 years before this programme was filmed.. 43 years ago!!!! Incoming existential crisis!!!

[@kaylaschulz8919]

The first time I've ever seen this

[@matunahuel95]

I noticed that Robert is wearing a Cozy Powell t-shirt.♥

[@radiomindchatter7994]

Robert cracking up when Cozy got the pie lol

[@dadadruma]

Good to see Bob smiling at this point in time for Obvious reasons

[@aidanlynn]

Those kids have no idea they’re sitting with greatness.

[@MarkBrydondrums85]

cozy r.i.p such a shame ur gone :(

[@kingkillah101]

This show unfortunately would never air today

[@ingenious4t]

Loved Den Hegarty doing the incomprehensible Hells Angel complete with helmet & halo 😇

[@craftymulligar]

All those kids are around 50 years old now probably. I was close to those kids ages.

[@simonmillard8931]

Sally James - This Is What We Want! - nuff said

[@jasonlee8497]

Love English humor. Dry and sarcastic.

[@euanelliott3613]

Such a pity the weather isn't dry and sarcastic with it...

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Flipping eck! Sally James!

[@stephentresca3536]

Cozy played on Robert Plant's solo album.

[@TheSheikhmihand]

Best show on TV ever. Should be bought back if new presenters, of the same calibre, can be found.

[@SophieW-z9r]

Before he'd said a word & taken the bucket off his head..I KNEW that was Frank Carson😂.The squat dumpy little bkdy & weird walk gave it away! This show really had it all & lets face ut ,ut mainky had Chris & Sally's mates on it..wbat a great world ut was having Motorhead play The Ace Of Spades to a studio audience of leaping 8 yr olds or Robert Plant acting as dinner lady giving all the kids orange squash to drink :) happier times yet Britain was in Thatcher hell ! ..we're in Boris Tory hell now 😢but when this show was on tv life was fucking tough for many of us growing up with nothing & this show was like sunshine on a saturday morning :)

[@carlosnavarro1091]

So nice to see kids with no bloody smartphones.

[@cloudsparrow7729]

If the world was going end in 10 minutes and Frank Carson read out the announcement, I'd still laugh My God Sally James tho

[@euanelliott3613]

Proof positive that neither Cozy or Robert take themselves too seriously. Sally James was gorgeous. And yes, I know Cozy is no longer with us worse luck.

[@jerrymuzak4534]

Rest in peace, Cozy.

[@emilyjohnson8808]

I love this!!!

[@nikolausbuchholz2404]

Yeaaaaaaaaah! how fuckin great is thaaaaat? Luwwwit!

[@TheLegallygorgeous]

This is so weird and yet wonderful

[@strings53notlob50]

How many people can say they threw a pie at Robert Plant and Cozy Powell?

[@suec6311]

What a sport.❤😮

[@mrrolandlawrence]

thats some happy kids there :)

[@TR6Telos]

Robert Plant , Robert Plant . Robert Plant, Cozy , Cozy , Cozy.

[@Ed9870]

British television is so bizarre.

[@euanelliott3613]

So is the licence fee.

[@euanelliott3613]

@H Kay Yes, you're quite right. I was making a comment about awful television and the fee we have to pay for it. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

You haven't seen Japanese TV then?

[@ohsweetladyjane]

American television is so bizarre.

[@Ed9870]

@@ohsweetladyjane The Network News is even worse.

[@realman450]

Fantastic!

[@Nelg230]

Penelope Rudd who pied Cozy and Robert, where are you now? This was the last series with Gordon Astley as a presenter after Tarrant left to start OTT. More than 40 years on and I still laugh at the craziness of it.

[@paullancaster7066]

Gordon Astley was superb as a breakfast time host on our local radio in the Midlands in the late 70's-early 80's.

[@markprice6471]

Does anyone have a link to this full episode?

[@TheWrinkleNostalgic]

i love robert plants crooked mouth

[@lobbyspurpleaztecs]

plant,powell & gillan. good start to the weekend

[@catherinethompson2525]

Yes he is kind and funny and likes to have fun!!

[@TonyEnglandUK]

THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!

[@adyrandom]

he was one of the lead singers for Darts.

[@stingray4real]

RIP Frank Carson and Cozy Powell !

[@Yehbytheway]

While watching Sally James I knew I was hetrosexual from a very young age.

[@z1inspector]

nice to see plant under a dif light, cozy r.i.p. DIO r.i.p.

[@doningles1771]

It's the way I tell em!