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Stairway to Snowdonia: Rapping with Robert Plant

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2003

For Robert Plant, life after Led Zeppelin has been anything but predictable. Resisting attempts to coast on the Zep legend, Percy has trodden his own singular path through techno-rock, retro-folk and worldbeat eclecticism. Barney Hoskyns travelled to Wales to discuss jump-blues, Haight-Ashbury, Afro-Celts, and the singer’s forthcoming two-CD anthology, ’66 to Timbuktu.

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