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6 May, 2015

‘The voice of my coming of age’

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Plant pays tribute to King.

His was the voice of my coming of age – dramatic, imploring, pained [and] spectacular…I learned his every nuance. I lived in grief and joy in his songs and, crazily much later in time, we became friends.