Hats off To (Roy) Harper - Remaster

Roy Harper is a folk singer from England whom Jimmy Page met at the Bath Festival in 1970. He became friends with Page and Robert Plant, who used him as the opening act on some Zeppelin tours. The song is a tribute to him. In 1971, Page played on Harper's album Stormcock, appearing in the credits as "S. Flavius Mercurius." In 1985, Page recorded an album with Harper called Whatever Happened To Jugula.

Explaining this track to Melody Maker before the album was released, Jimmy Page said: "This came about from a jam Robert and I had one night. There is a whole tape of us bashing different blues things. Robert had been playing harmonica through the amp, then he used it to sing through. It's supposed to be a sincere hats off to Roy because he's really a talented bloke, who's had a lot of problems."

Harper didn't know that Zeppelin made the song until he picked up an advanced copy of the album from Zeppelin's office. Jimmy Page had to tell Harper to look at the track list three times before Harper finally noticed the song with his name in the title.