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From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Vita)
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Subject: Re: Roy Harper
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 15:27:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 15:27:39 1984
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> 
> Also, if you look at Led Zeppelin's third album (the one with the
> rotating cover), there is a song "Hat's Off to Harper".  I guess
> this song was written for Roy boy.  Anyway, he must be a cult hero
> in England.  Any comments from across the sea?
> 
 
    Actually, the name of the Zeppelin song is "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper".
I assume this is the same guy.  However, I have never been able to make
out the lyrics to this song, as they are intentionally distorted, so I
don't know what they had to say about the guy, if anything.
    Another kind of amusing/bizzare thing about the song--the song credit
is "Trad. Arr. Charles Obscure.".  Right under that is the statement
"All selections and arrangements of traditional songs published by 
Superhype Music, Inc., ASCAP."  I never quite figured out what the 
humor behind this was.
 
-- 

                                Mark Vita
                                Dartmouth College

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