Grief doesn’t always scream—it sometimes sings. “All My Love” isn’t just a Led Zeppelin ballad. It’s a father breaking in real time. When Robert Plant lost his 5-year-old son, Karac, to a sudden illness, it shattered him. And instead of hiding, he put that pain into a song—not for charts, not for fame—but for the little boy who never got to grow up. Onstage in 1980, during Zeppelin’s final tour, Plant didn’t perform that song. He survived it. You could see it in his trembling voice, in the way he’d close his eyes, in the silence that wrapped around the crowd like a shared ache. In those minutes, he wasn’t a rock legend. He was just a dad, grieving out loud in front of strangers who suddenly didn’t feel like strangers at all. “All of my love… to you.” It wasn’t a lyric. It was a prayer. A goodbye. A forever. And maybe that’s the most powerful thing about music—it lets us turn our wounds into something that keeps breathing long after we can’t. Watch in the first comment below
“I still hear his adorable laugh in the quiet moments… and some days, that’s what gets me through.” Grief doesn’t always scream—it sometimes sings. “All […]
