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Robert Plant spends his days trying to avoid what's expected of him. And it's resulted in his best work in 30 years, writes Grant Smithies.

Robert Plant knows as well as anyone that the ageing rock star can be a truly tragic figure. The ex-Led Zeppelin frontman even delivers a song about the fact on his new solo album, seemingly taking pot shots at old mates Rod Stewart and Sir Mick Jagger among others: "My peers may flirt with cabaret, some fake the rebel yell/Me - I'm moving up to higher ground, I must escape their hell." It's a great song, deftly capturing the lack of options retirement-age rockers face.

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