Source: Blabbermouth.net

According to Classic Rock magazine, WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale wants to personally apologize to Robert Plant for the “ugly things” he said about the LED ZEPPELIN singer nearly two decades ago.

Plant and Coverdale famously traded verbal jabs after the former DEEP PURPLE vocalist teamed up with LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page for the short-lived 1993 COVERDALE-PAGE album and tour,

In interviews at the time, Plant openly expressed his disdain for the WHITESNAKE singer, referring to him as “David Cover-version.” Coverdale was equally vitriolic in his response, saying about the LED ZEPPELIN frontman, “There’s certainly no love lost between myself and Robert… I wouldn’t send him cat food if he was starving.”

During an interview set to be broadcast next Wednesday (June 19) on TeamRock Radio‘s “Classic Rock Magazine Show”, Coverdale offered an olive branch to Plant.

“My last words to Jimmy in London were: ‘I’d love to buy Robert a drink,'” Coverdale told “Classic Rock Magazine Show” host Nicky Horne. “I said, ‘When you speak to him, offer my sincere regrets for any negative things I’ve ever said, which were mostly defensive.'”

Coverdale continued: “I hold him [Plant] in the highest esteem as a human being, and as an artist, and I really would like to, you know, sit down, buy him a drink, shake hands and say: ‘I’m really sorry,” you know, “Can we be friends again?’

“[Out of] my love and respect for Jimmy, I know he’ll pass that on to Robert — and Robert might go and tell him to [expletive] himself, who knows, but I don’t hold any animosity, just disappointment in myself that I took the bait and ran with some ugly things. Because it’s not appropriate for somebody I respect so much.”

Listen to Coverdale‘s comments below.