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thank you, because...
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Rock giants who strode the world for ten years.
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...setting nights on fCBirSe.
There's a lady who's sure
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If the stores are all closed...
Masters-- one and all.
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Robert Plant...
I've...
...seduced like the Devil.
Been working from seven...
John Paul Jones made poetry out of every note.
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And a chapter of rock history had come to a close.
Now three, they followed separate paths.
Plant traveled from the sands of Marrakesh
to the bluegrass of Tennessee.
Jones put his talents to work behind the music,
producing and scoring.
And Page remains rock's premiere virtuoso.
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ANNOUNCER: The Kennedy Center Honors will return
with Lenny Kravitz.