A small moment can mean a lot.

As Robert Plant and his band Saving Grace performed in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 22, one of the sweetest unspoken messages came when the Led Zeppelin singer was mostly silent on stage.

It was when singer Suzi Dian, who shared vocal duties with Plant throughout the night, stepped into the spotlight for a cover of the Gillian Welch song “Orphan Girl”: The most famous man in the United Theater on Broadway perched on a stool in the shadows upstage, adding harmonies on the choruses and nothing more.

The point, made time and again throughout the show, is that Plant considers himself just another player in the band, no more or less important than Dian or the other four musicians in Saving Grace. The recent self-titled album, which consists of mostly acoustic

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