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Robert Plant: Still on the stairway It's been a long time since Led Zeppelin, but Robert Plant tells James McNair that he's as uncompromising as ever.
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Belfast Telegraph
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April 15, 2005
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In spring 1970, on the completion of Led Zeppelin's fifth US tour,
Robert Plant retreated to Bron-Yr-Aur, a derelict 18th-century
cottage near Machynlleth, Gwynedd. With him was his then wife
Maureen, their 18-month-old daughter Carmen, and an Old English
sheepdog named Strider. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and his then
girlfriend, Charlotte Martin, were also aboard Plant's big yellow
Jeep, and when the party decamped at Bron-Yr-Aur, Page and Plant
wrote parts of Led Zeppelin III in front of an open-hearth fire."A
few years back", says Plant today, "I had a letter from the owner of
the cottage saying: 'Thanks to you, we can't have an afternoon in the
garden without someone turning up to ask ...
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