It nearly didn’t happen – but it’s hats off to Harper once again ... d been trying to get his American friends to record a Roy Harper song and make a tribute record in California.

Where once he was embraced by the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin - he sang "Have A Cigar" for the former and had "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" written about him by the latter - he now counts ...

The rest of the '70s were hit and miss for the solo Harper as he also appeared as the subject of a tribute at the end of Led Zeppelin III (“Hats Off (to Roy Harper)”), and as a lead vocalist ...

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. "I arrived at the hotel ...