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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.

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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