Roy Harper recalled watching from the wings as Led Zeppelin took the U.S. by storm in 1973, explaining how the band became a "monster" during the celebrated road trip.

Page and Plant needed only two takes to finish Led Zeppelin III closer “Hats off to Roy Harper.” That wasn’t out of the ordinary for the band.

“Hats Off to (Roy) Harper” might have been overlooked as Led Zeppelin III ’s final track. Still, it’s an underrated track that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant needed just two takes to create.

THE man who prompted the lads from Led Zeppelin to take off their hats (Hats Off to (Roy) Harper, Led Zeppelin III) is in fine fettle at 72 and is still protesting with characteristic eloquence.

Yet while Harper is a legend in Britain, he’s known in America primarily as the subject of Led Zeppelin’s “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper” and as the vocalist on Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar.” ...

You see, the last time Roy, to whom Jimmy Page dedicated Hats Off to (Roy) Harper on the album Led Zeppelin 111, stayed at the Europa it had just suffered an unhappy event.

The song Hats Off to (Roy) Harper was a tip of the cap from Led Zeppelin to their friend and peer of the same name. They'd have been better off just sending him some flowers in the post.

Recorded at his height for the EMI imprint Harvest Records Harper was a big fan of Led Zeppelin, and vice versa. Led Zep recorded the tribute Hats Off To (Roy) Harper on the 1970 album Led ...

D’oh! Thirty-five years on, I wasn’t going to miss out on possibly the next best thing when I heard tribute act, Hats Off To Led Zeppelin, were playing just down the road at York Barbican on ...