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"Ship of Fools" was also featured on the final two-hour episode of Miami Vice, "Freefall".Plant performed " Ship of Fools", "Tall Cool One" and "Heaven Knows" at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in 1988.

"Walking Towards Paradise" ( Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:40 (CD edition bonus track)."The Way I Feel" (Plant, Johnstone, Doug Boyle) – 5:40."Dance on My Own" (Plant, Johnstone, Robert Crash) – 4:30." Heaven Knows" (Johnstone, David Barratt) – 4:06.But if I listen to it now, I can hear that a lot of the songs got lost in the technology of the time." Track listing Īll tracks written by Robert Plant and Phil Johnstone, except where noted. It was a Top 10 album on both sides of the Atlantic. In an interview he gave to Uncut magazine in 2005, Plant commented that "by the time Now and Zen came out in '88, it looked like I was big again. Overall effect is a cross between his former band and the Cars." In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder hailed Now and Zen as "some kind of stylistic event: a seamless pop fusion of hard guitar rock, gorgeous computerization and sharp, startling songcraft." Robert Christgau found it superior to his previous two attractive but forgettable solo albums, writing in The Village Voice that "at its best, it's far from forgettable.
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Now and Zen was received positively by both Plant's fans and professional music critics. Rhino Entertainment released a remastered edition of the album, with bonus tracks, on 3 April 2007. "Walking Towards Paradise" was originally as a bonus track available only on CD versions of the album and as the B-side of the single "Heaven Knows". This mini-flag is also a rare collector's item.

This is a tribute to his favorite association football team, the Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves by fans). The original released copies of the CD and Album version contained a wolf motif mini-flag in satin red. Release and reception Professional ratings Review scores (On the liner notes, Page's participation on the songs is noted with a Zoso symbol.) In response to the Beastie Boys' unauthorized sampling of some Led Zeppelin songs on their 1986 album Licensed to Ill, Plant also used samples from Led Zeppelin songs (" Whole Lotta Love", " Dazed and Confused", " Black Dog", " Custard Pie", and " The Ocean") on "Tall Cool One", additionally singing words from " When the Levee Breaks". The tracks "Heaven Knows" and " Tall Cool One" feature Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. This is a direction that he would eventually follow in the 1990s with Page and Plant. A prominent guitar sound and an exotic feel to the recordings also marked another change in direction for the artist, who now added Middle Eastern tones in songs like " Heaven Knows". Although Plant continued to utilize computerized audio technology in a similar fashion to his previous solo albums, for this album Plant integrated the blues that had all but been abandoned on his most recent album Shaken 'n' Stirred (1985).

With a new band and a new perspective on his music, Plant returned in late 1987 with more of the sound that had previously defined him in Led Zeppelin.
