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Robert Plant: I just sang “Stairway to Heaven” for the last time

Plant and Krauss are playing more U.S. dates this year — in their only interview, they tell us us about the future of their collaboration

And I don’t know if you think this, Alison, but when we doing some TV clips [early on] with Duane Eddy and James Burton and stuff, how are we to know from that kind of formal delivery, very neatly done, that we would end up as a particularly far-out, loose band, quite funky and extending all our songs? So regal and beautiful … For me, it’s like Asbury Park, like a fairground ride at times, just to try and remember harmony positions, which I was not born into, because I was a rock & roll singer, trying to be Dion, all those years ago. That’s an amazing piece of music, “That Black Snake Moan.” Many mornings I play that when I start my day, just to remember how incredibly, remarkably talented [Blind] Lemon Jefferson was and how funny his lyrics are.

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