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very definition of 'for completists only.' ... [It] demonstrates Zeppelin at their most bloated, sloppily fumbling through rhythmic cues and extending tracks to their breaking point". Taken from the sleeve notes. Led Zeppelin Other musician Other personnel Notes Citations Sources Led Zeppelin (album) Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. The album was recorded in September and October 1968 at Olympic Studios, London, shortly after the band's formation. It contains a mix
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Led Zeppelin (album) Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. The album was recorded in September and October 1968 at Olympic Studios, London, shortly after the band's formation. It contains a mix of original material worked out in the first rehearsals, and covers and rearrangements of contemporary blues and folk songs. The sessions took place before the group had secured a recording contract and were paid for directly, and took 36 hours
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very definition of 'for completists only.' ... [It] demonstrates Zeppelin at their most bloated, sloppily fumbling through rhythmic cues and extending tracks to their breaking point". Taken from the sleeve notes. Led Zeppelin Other musician Other personnel Notes Citations Sources Led Zeppelin (album) Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. The album was recorded in September and October 1968 at Olympic Studios, London, shortly after the band's formation. It contains a mix
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Come On Home" and "Sugar Mama" were left off the album. They were released on the 2015 reissue of the retrospective album "Coda". "Led Zeppelin"s front cover, which was chosen by Page, features a black-and-white image of the burning "Hindenburg" airship, photographed by Sam Shere in May 1937. The image refers to the origin of the band's name itself: When Page, Beck and The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle were discussing the idea of forming a group, Moon joked, "It would probably go over like a lead balloon", and Entwistle reportedly replied, "a lead zeppelin!" The back cover features
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home in the Midlands and for months afterwards he questioned his future. Karac's death later inspired him to write several songs in tribute: "All My Love" featured on Led Zeppelin's final studio album, 1979's "In Through the Out Door", while "Blue Train" featured on Page and Plant's second and final (studio) album, 1998's "Walking into Clarksdale". The song "I Believe" on Plant's solo album "Fate of Nations" is another tribute to his late son. Plant did not begin writing song lyrics with Led Zeppelin until the making of "Led Zeppelin II", in 1969. According to Jimmy Page: Plant's lyrics with
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Greg Prato puts it, "When talks about 'stoner rock' come up, one band that tends to get overlooked is Blue Cheer." According to critic Mark Deming, Blue Cheer's first album, "Vincebus Eruptum", "is a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army," not unlike the heaviness of MC5's "Kick Out the Jams" and the Velvet Underground's "White Light/White Heat". "Rolling Stone" claims, "What stoner rock delivers, slowed down and magnified, is the riff, the persistent legacy of Mississippi blues. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were the first to make a monolith of
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a heavier direction, being influenced by artists like Led Zeppelin, Slade and Alice Cooper. French, in addition to being one of the band's guitar players, took over the manager position from 1975 to 1979, and from 1988 to present day. Twisted Sister´s first album release was the EP "Ruff Cutts" (Secret, 1982). The band´s debut studio album, "Under The Blade", was released in September 1982. Twisted Sister released five studio albums in the period of 1982 to 1987: "Under The Blade" (1982), "You Can’t Stop Rock’n’Roll" (1983), "Stay Hungry" (1984), "Come Out And Play" (1985) and "Love Is For Suckers"
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new material in 2007, saying: "It's an album that I really need to get out of my system ... there's a good album in there and it's ready to come out" and "Also there will be some Zeppelin things on the horizon." On 10 December 2007, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, as well as John Bonham's son, Jason Bonham played a charity concert at the O2 Arena London. According to "Guinness World Records 2009", Led Zeppelin set the world record for the "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert" as 20 million requests for the reunion show were
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twin brother, Bruce Fernandez, took over the Ed Zeppelin role. His photo is on the front cover. Album Un-Led-Ed Un-Led-Ed is the debut album by Dread Zeppelin. Released in 1990, the album received a public endorsement by Led Zeppelin vocalist, Robert Plant, who claimed he preferred Dread Zep's version of "Your Time Is Gonna Come" to Led Zeppelin's original. Initial recording sessions for the album took place exclusively at The Chapel in Encino, California in 1989. Co-producer, Rasta Li-Mon (R. Lee Manning) was the house engineer for owner, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics. The first sessions yielded two vinyl 45 singles,
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Seger's 2006 album "Face the Promise". The anthem-like "Forward into the Past", a song in the vein of Seger's "American Storm" or "Even Now", is from 1999 and was once to be the title track of his sixteenth studio album, while the ballad "Something More" is from 2001. The two tracks "I'll Remember You" and "The Sea Inside", the latter of which Seger described as "very Led Zeppelin", were mentioned in interviews with Seger as early as 2011. They were to be included on his then upcoming seventeenth studio album, 2014's "Ride Out", but ultimately did not make it onto
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Anthology"). The first companion album consists of the 10 October 1969 concert in Paris. The albums were released in chronological order, each with inverted album covers. The first wave of albums, "Led Zeppelin", "Led Zeppelin II", and "Led Zeppelin III", was released on 2 June 2014. The second wave of albums, "Led Zeppelin IV" and "Houses of the Holy", was released on 27 October 2014. "Physical Graffiti" was released on 23 February 2015, almost exactly forty years to the day after the original release. The fourth and final wave of albums, "Presence", "In Through the Out Door", and "Coda", was
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Studio Recordings" box set released three years later, which includes all nine of the band's studio albums on ten discs, with the three extra tracks appended to "Coda", along with the 1969 recording "Baby Come On Home", first released on the two-disc "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2". The "Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux" mix is also included in the promotional interview album "Profiled" (1990). Also three years after this release, the remaining Led Zeppelin tracks not appearing on this box set were issued on "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2". All tracks produced by Jimmy Page except for "Travelling Riverside Blues" produced by
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2003, VH1 named "Led Zeppelin" the 44th-greatest album of all time. The same year, the album was ranked 29th on "Rolling Stone"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; an accompanying blurb read: "Heavy metal still lives in its shadow." In 2004, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Along with the group's next two albums – "Led Zeppelin II" and "Led Zeppelin III" – the album was remastered and reissued in June 2014. The reissue comes in six formats: a standard CD edition, a deluxe two-CD edition, a standard LP version, a deluxe three-LP version, a super
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Un-Led-Ed Un-Led-Ed is the debut album by Dread Zeppelin. Released in 1990, the album received a public endorsement by Led Zeppelin vocalist, Robert Plant, who claimed he preferred Dread Zep's version of "Your Time Is Gonna Come" to Led Zeppelin's original. Initial recording sessions for the album took place exclusively at The Chapel in Encino, California in 1989. Co-producer, Rasta Li-Mon (R. Lee Manning) was the house engineer for owner, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics. The first sessions yielded two vinyl 45 singles, "Immigrant Song" b/w "Hey Hey What Can I Do" and "Whole Lotta Love" b/w "Tour-Telvis: A Bad Trip".
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the featured artist. Albums that have been performed include Led Zeppelin<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Led Zeppelin", "Led Zeppelin II" and "Led Zeppelin IV", Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run", Supertramp<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Crime of the Century" and "Breakfast in America", the Rolling Stones<nowiki>'</nowiki> "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main St.", Fleetwood Mac<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Rumours", Eagles<nowiki>'</nowiki> "Hotel California", Guns N' Roses<nowiki>'</nowiki> "Appetite for Destruction", Pink Floyd<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "The Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "The Wall" and "Animals", Queen<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "A Night at the Opera", and the Beatles albums "Rubber Soul", "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The Beatles" (AKA the "White Album"), and "Abbey Road".
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Bonham and found analogs to specific guitar and keyboard tones in Led Zeppelin albums. Nigel Williamson of "The Times" found similarities in Chris Robinson's voice on "Come On" to that of Robert Plant, and wrote that the song "could almost be a "Led Zeppelin II" cast off." Other reviewers noted similarities to Aerosmith; Howard Cohen of "The Miami Herald" called "Lickin'" "the best Aerosmith single that band hasn't recorded in years." The perceived lack of originality, though, turned off some critics. The "Herald Sun"'s Andrew McUtchen inferred "The Black Crowes are unaware it's no longer the '70s and after one
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Was Won". No official live footage of the band was filmed during this tour. In an interview Page gave to "The Times" newspaper in 2010, when asked which performances from Led Zeppelin's career stand out to him now, he made reference to the tour but acknowledged the lack of visual recordings: This was the first tour in which Led Zeppelin used songs from their upcoming album "Houses of the Holy" ("Over the Hills and Far Away", "Dancing Days", and "The Ocean"). This was also the last concert tour on which Led Zeppelin included an acoustic section until it was revived
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audio and video material circulated amongst fans. The first audience recorded bootlegs became available in early 1980. However, aside from the promotional snippets, Led Zeppelin never officially released any of the recordings until 2003, when parts of the footage were digitally remastered and included on the "Led Zeppelin DVD". Two songs from the band's eighth and most recent studio album, "In Through the Out Door" were played for the first time on stage, namely "Hot Dog" and "In the Evening". The album was intended to be released prior to the band's concerts, but production delays pushed its release date to
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Tangerine (Led Zeppelin song) "Tangerine" is a folk-rock song by the English band Led Zeppelin. Recorded in 1970, it is included on the second, more acoustic-oriented side of "Led Zeppelin III" (1970). The plaintive ballad reflects on lost love and features strummed acoustic guitar rhythm with pedal steel guitar. The Yardbirds, with guitarist Jimmy Page, recorded an early version of the song in 1968, titled "Knowing That I'm Losing You". When it was released on the Page-produced 2017 album "Yardbirds '68", Keith Relf's vocal was left out. "Tangerine" has been performed in concert by Led Zeppelin at different points in
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of Led Zeppelin's first two albums and a number of early press advertisements. The first UK pressing featured the band name and the Atlantic logo in turquoise. When it was switched to the orange print later that year, the turquoise-printed sleeve became a collector's item. The album cover gained further widespread attention when, at a February 1970 gig in Copenhagen, the band were billed as "The Nobs" as the result of a legal threat from aristocrat Eva von Zeppelin (a relative of the creator of the Zeppelin aircraft). Von Zeppelin, upon seeing the logo of the "Hindenburg" crashing in flames,
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chart for 19 weeks and was certified Gold on 8 October 1970. However, following the lukewarm, if not confused and sometimes dismissive reception from critics, sales lagged after this initial peak. Despite mostly indifferent reviews and lower sales than Led Zeppelin's previous two albums, "Led Zeppelin III"'s reputation has recovered over time. The RIAA certified the album 2 times platinum in 1990, and 6 times platinum in 1999. The 2014 reissue of the album helped itself get back into the "Billboard" Top 10. Along with the group's self-titled debut album and their second album, "Led Zeppelin II", the album was
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at the 1979 Knebworth Festival, headlined by Led Zeppelin, but this was cancelled at the last minute. It was first performed live at the 1990 Silver Clef Awards Festival at Knebworth in 1990 by Plant's band with Page guesting. The 1993 compact disc edition has four additional tracks from the box sets, "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set" (1990) and "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2" (1993), the previously unreleased "Travelling Riverside Blues", "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" and the "Immigrant Song" b-side "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" from the former and the previously unreleased "Baby Come On Home" from the latter. The
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being original songs. It peaked at number 151 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 10 on the US Top Holiday Albums ("Billboard)". On December 5, 2016, just over a year after the album was released, Train's cover of "This Christmas" charted at number one on "Billboard"'s Adult Contemporary Chart. In June 2016, Train released their first cover album, and ninth overall studio album, titled "Train Does Led Zeppelin II". The album was a song by song replication of the classic 1969 Led Zeppelin album. The band's website announcement stated: "We're paying homage to one of our biggest musical
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more and more enjoyment with new layers apparent each time. The "Tiny Pictures" cover art was done by the graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, who also did the art for "Come Again", and who has designed album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Muse, and The Mars Volta. The cover depicts a large pile of suitcases stacked to look like a man's face. Tiny Pictures Tiny Pictures is the second and final studio album by Canadian rock band Thornley. The album was released in Canada on February 10, 2009, and in the U.S. on February 3, 2010. The first single, "Make
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sixth American concert tour. The album was produced by Page and engineered by Andy Johns and Terry Manning. Page had first met Manning when the latter's band, Lawson and Four More had supported Page's old band the Yardbirds in 1966. Manning had been to several Led Zeppelin shows, and this led to Page asking him to engineer the new album. "Led Zeppelin III" marked a change in focus for the band from late 1960s hard rock to a psychedelic folk and acoustic sound. These styles had been present to a lesser degree in the band's first two releases, such as
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featured the Nice on the track "Hell's Angels"; its ethereal sound achieved by a wah-wah pedal attached to Harper's acoustic guitar. After the Bath Festival of 1970, Led Zeppelin paid tribute to Harper with their version of the traditional song "Shake 'Em on Down". Retitled "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper", it appeared on the album "Led Zeppelin III". According to Jimmy Page, the band admired the way Harper stood by his principles and did not sell out to commercial pressures. In mutual appreciation of their work, Harper would often attend live performances by Led Zeppelin over the subsequent decade and
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the Flying Circus led by the Red Baron. Juniper pasted the faces of the band on top of the original photograph, and added faces from a few other photographs as well. The blonde-haired woman on the cover is believed to be the actress Glynis Johns, which may be a subtle retort to engineer Glyn Johns' claim that he was "de facto" producer of Led Zeppelin's first album and did most of the work. The cover also pictured the outline of a Zeppelin on a brown background (similar to the cover of the band's first album), which gave the album its
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Both singles were released by Birdcage Records in 1989. After selling out multiple runs of the singles in various vinyl colors, Birdcage gave the go-ahead to record a full album. The original concept was to lampoon each Led Zeppelin album in its original order but that was scrapped for more of a hodgepodge approach that could include Dread Zeppelin live favorites like "Black Dog" and "Heartbreaker." Un-Led-Ed was 90% finished when Dread Zeppelin were signed to I.R.S. Records who arranged for the final recording sessions at Club 56 Studio in Burbank, California. Two songs were recorded: "Black Dog" and "(All
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"D'yer Mak'er". Their debut album, "Led Zeppelin" (1969), released by Atlantic Records, charted at number six on the UK Albums Chart and at number ten on the United States "Billboard" 200. It received several sales certifications, including an 8 times multi-platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Diamond from the Music Canada. Led Zeppelin's second studio album, "Led Zeppelin II", recorded when the band were on tour, was released a few months after the first. It reached number one in several countries, including the UK and the US, where it was certified 12 times multi-platinum. The album
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studio outtake. Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 is a double album released by Atlantic Records on 21 September 1993. This box set features the rest of the English rock band Led Zeppelin's catalogue not included in the 1990 4-CD box set "Led Zeppelin", all digitally remastered, including the previously unreleased studio track "Baby Come On Home". A 54-page booklet was also included with the release. Between this box set and the 4-CD box set every track from the band's nine studio albums are featured along with two BBC live recordings; the band's only non-LP b-side;
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Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 is a double album released by Atlantic Records on 21 September 1993. This box set features the rest of the English rock band Led Zeppelin's catalogue not included in the 1990 4-CD box set "Led Zeppelin", all digitally remastered, including the previously unreleased studio track "Baby Come On Home". A 54-page booklet was also included with the release. Between this box set and the 4-CD box set every track from the band's nine studio albums are featured along with two BBC live recordings; the band's only non-LP b-side; and one
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Led Zeppelin Remasters Led Zeppelin Remasters is a three-LP (or two-cassette or two-CD) compilation album of digitally remastered material by English rock band Led Zeppelin. Containing songs from eight of the band's nine studio albums, it was initially released in the UK and Japan by Atlantic Records on 15 October 1990. The album is essentially a scaled-down version of the four-CD "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set". This compilation set came about as a result of the initially rushed conversion of Led Zeppelin's album to the compact disc format in the late 1980s. Led Zeppelin were among the first rock bands to
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III's IRS label. Their first album, "Un-Led-Ed", consisted of more covers taken from "Led Zeppelin" and "Led Zeppelin II", plus "Black Dog" from Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album. Original drummer Cheese (Curt Lichter) left the band just after recording "Un-Led-Ed". He was replaced by Fresh Cheese (Paul Maselli). Shortly before "Un-Led-Ed" was released, the original Ed Zeppelin (percussion) was replaced by his identical twin brother (Bruce Fernandez). "Un-Led-Ed" was successful. In autumn 1990, Dread Zeppelin took a three-week break from touring and recorded their second album, "5,000,000* *Tortelvis Fans Can't Be Wrong". In addition to the usual "Zeppelin in a
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studio musician. Jones called Page on the phone before they checked out Plant, and Page hired Jones immediately. Initially dubbed the "New Yardbirds" in 1968, the band soon came to be known as Led Zeppelin. The band's eponymous debut album hit the charts in 1969 and is widely credited as a catalyst for the heavy metal genre. Plant has commented that it is unfair for people to think of Zeppelin as heavy metal, as almost a third of their music was acoustic. In 1969, Led Zeppelin I was released. This was the bands' first album. Plant stated that "During Led
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Grunt)" of "The Simpsons", during a scene which shows military recruitment, a group of soldiers play the guitar riff of "Communication Breakdown". "Communication Breakdown" is included in "Blender"'s 2003 list of "The 1,001 Greatest Songs to Download Right Now!" Citations Sources Communication Breakdown "Communication Breakdown" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1969 debut album "Led Zeppelin". It was released as the B-side of "Good Times Bad Times", the group's first single in the US. A promotional video was released, with the group miming to the recording; it is included on the "Led Zeppelin DVD"
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marijuana in hand, lighting the room on fire. "Royal Orleans" was the name of a hotel where the members of Led Zeppelin would stay when they visited New Orleans, because not as many people asked for autographs there. In an interview he gave to "Mojo magazine" in 2007, Jones clarified the reliability of this rumour, stating: Jones' involvement with Led Zeppelin did not put a halt to his session work. In 1969 he returned to the studio to play bass guitar on The Family Dogg's "A Way of Life" album. Jones was Madeline Bell's first choice to produce and arrange
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released as a single to further promote the album, but it narrowly missed the top 20 of the singles chart. "In Through the Out Door" is the Led Zeppelin album that has spent the most weeks on the top of the charts (tied along with "Led Zeppelin II)". To date, the album has sold six million copies in the US. "In Through the Out Door" divided contemporary critics and Led Zeppelin fans; some found its synthesizer-influenced music inevitable but forward-thinking while others felt the band had forsaken their heavy, fast sound. According to Jimmy Page biographer Martin Power, "predictably, in
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Again a transatlantic chart-topper, it has received an 11 times multi-platinum certification from RIAA. In 1974, the band set up their own vanity label, Swan Song Records, which would release the rest of Led Zeppelin's studio albums. The first was the 1975 double album "Physical Graffiti", which has received a 16 times platinum certification from RIAA. However, Zeppelin's seventh album, "Presence" (1976), did not perform as well as their previous releases, receiving a triple Platinum certification from RIAA. On 20 October 1976 Led Zeppelin released their first concert film "The Song Remains the Same". The recording of the film took
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Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin II is the second album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969. The album's production was credited to the band's lead guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page, and it also served as Led Zeppelin's first album to use Eddie Kramer as engineer. "Led Zeppelin II" exhibited the band's evolving musical style of
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Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and Curtis Mayfield. This album is notable for the fact that its 1971 review in "Creem" contains an early documented use of the term "heavy metal" to refer to a style of music. It features distorted guitar, enhanced by extensive use of multi-tracking, and has been compared to Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Van Halen, Kiss and the Stooges. "Kingdom Come" was released in December 1970. It was reissued on PolyGram in 1994, on Red Fox in 2003, and on Anthology Recordings in 2007. The 1994 and 2003 re-releases also contained 1971's "Sir Lord Baltimore". The re-release
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and "All My Love"—were the only two original Led Zeppelin songs that Page had no part in writing. Aside from "Darlene", a boogie-woogie based song credited to all band members (which was eventually released on the 1982 album, "Coda"), Bonham did not receive writing credits for any of the songs. "In The Evening" was planned as the opening track for the album as "a full-blown epic", in order to show that Led Zeppelin could still make good music. Page played the guitar with a violin bow, as he had done in the early days of the band. The track features
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Eddie Kramer, who worked with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Kiss (band), and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and was mixed at the Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York City. It has been said by reviewers and Stanley himself that the album best approximates how the band sounds when it is performing in concert. There is truth to this assessment, even though the songs were new for the band at the time, they play them with gusto and bravado. Several songs became standards in their sold out concerts for years to come. Ever present is a great
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Caesar's Chariot Caesar's Chariot was a former United Airlines Boeing 720 passenger jet which was chartered by English rock band Led Zeppelin for their 1977 concert tour of North America. The plane, N7224U (S/N: 18077), was rolled out from the assembly line on December 12, 1961 and its first flight was on January 16, 1962. It was delivered to United Airlines on April 10, and in 1975 was purchased by Desert Palace Inc. and then by Todd Leasing in March 1975, when it was named "Caesars Chariot". "Caesar's Chariot" was hired by Led Zeppelin in 1977 from Caesars Palace Hotel
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Chicago's House of Blues. Pearl Jam originally did not plan to perform the song, but changed their itinerary after Hurricane Katrina went through New Orleans. All proceeds of the performance went to charities. Other artists have recorded cover versions of the song, including Vanilla Fudge for their tribute album "Out Through the In Door", a band which Led Zeppelin supported and Bonham studied; Rick Wakeman for the tribute album "Led Box"; Michael Cavanaugh, and Mexican rock band Maná, who performed a rendition in Spanish. When "Kokomo Tribune" was discussing "" in 1995, they wrote that it was "perhaps wise" they
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nickname "Brown Bomber". The album was released on 22 October 1969 on Atlantic Records, with advance orders of 400,000 copies. The advertising campaign was built around the slogans 'Led Zeppelin – The Only Way to Fly' and 'Led Zeppelin II Now Flying'. In the United States, some commercially duplicated reel-to-reel copies of "Led Zeppelin II" made by Ampex bore the title "Led Zeppelin II – The Only Way to Fly" on their spine. Commercially, "Led Zeppelin II" was the band's first album to hit No. 1 in the US, knocking The Beatles' "Abbey Road" (1969) twice from the top spot,
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Led Zeppelin Deluxe Edition The Led Zeppelin Deluxe Edition is a series of albums reissued by English rock group Led Zeppelin, distributed by Atlantic Records. It contains all nine of the original Led Zeppelin studio albums remastered from the original analog tapes. Along with the remastered albums, there is a companion disc with each album, consisting of previously unreleased audio tracks and alternate mixes of released tracks. Many of these are described as work-in-progress or alternate mixes made during the original production rather than new remixes generated to highlight discarded recording elements (as did the remixes made for "The Beatles
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Battle of Evermore" by Led Zeppelin. Music critic Rick Johnson thought the group came up with a consistent album, summarising it as "fairly solid stuff". In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Paul Collins rates the album three stars out of five, writing: "It rocks harder than other Yes albums" and a "harbinger of Yes and Asia albums to come" throughout the 1980s. He points out Squire's "emboldened" and "aggressive" bass playing with White's drums, and Howe's "more metallic" approach. Collins picks out "Machine Messiah" and "Tempus Fugit" as the album's best tracks within an album of promising material. Former (and
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The Fun Sessions The Fun Sessions is the 8th studio album by Dread Zeppelin, and the first made with Imago Records. It is described as “Tortelvis sings the classics”, where “classics” are songs from the late-1960s and early-1970s particularly loved by the band. The album title is a wordplay on Elvis's The Sun Sessions. This album brings the band away from Led Zeppelin covers, like they did with "It's Not Unusual", which was criticized by many fans because of its disco style and Tortelvis was not singing on it. At the time of release, Dread Zeppelin had covered most of
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This award-winning film features his life as he started out filming music greats such as Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and his current mission to find today's up-and-coming bands and help them become tomorrow's top rock acts. This includes him convincing Sick Puppies to leave their homes to pursue success in the American music industry in Los Angeles. According to bassist Emma Anzai, "(Robert Knight) was like, 'Hey I want to put you in my film', so we were like, 'All right, cool.' So now it's two years later and he documented when we did the first album, the first
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signed to Audium/Koch Records (now E1 Music) for its fifth studio album, "Unleashed". It was led off by the No. 39 "What Brothers Do". Although this was the band's first Top 40 country hit since "When and Where" in 1995, the other singles — "She Treats Her Body Like a Temple" and "White Trash with Money" — both failed to reach Top 40 as well. The band did not record again until 2007's "Cheap Thrills", an album composed of cover songs. This album was led off by a cover of "Please Come to Boston", which failed to chart. Confederate Railroad
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Talk With Mitch Lafon" podcast about Wolf's absence, drummer James Kottak stated, "He's just kind of done. He wants to retire. He's got his life." In the same interview, Kottak expressed his desire to work on new material with Kingdom Come, and added, "maybe Lenny will contribute some music towards it." The musical style on Kingdom Come's debut album was very close to the early blues-rock style of English rock band Led Zeppelin, to the point that some listeners initially thought that Kingdom Come was actually a Led Zeppelin reunion. With a sound that was thought by many to be
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were the Rolling Stones and the Who. The album was a massive commercial and critical success. Shortly after the release of "Physical Graffiti", all previous Led Zeppelin albums simultaneously re-entered the top-200 album chart, and the band embarked on another North American tour, now employing sophisticated sound and lighting systems. In May 1975, Led Zeppelin played five sold-out nights at the Earls Court Arena in London, at the time the largest arena in Britain. Following their triumphant Earls Court appearances, Led Zeppelin took a holiday and planned an autumn tour in America, scheduled to open with two outdoor dates in
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this album appear on many compilations and also on re-issues of older albums as bonus tracks. The album was re-issued in 2005 by the Canadian label Legacy, with the title Great White Salutes Led Zeppelin. The entire album appears also on Great White's double-CD compilation "A Double Dose" issued by Deadline Music in 2005, along with the album of covers "Recover". Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin is a cover album released by the American hard rock band Great White in 1998, dedicated to songs of Led Zeppelin. It was recorded live
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the music newspaper "Melody Maker" that Frau Eva von Zeppelin initially took issue during an early Led Zeppelin concert performance in Copenhagen in October 1969, when she tried (unsuccessfully) to stop a television appearance. The aristocrat angrily described the group as "shrieking monkeys". As a gesture of good will, the band invited her to meet with them at a television studio. The meeting was apparently a cordial one. However, upon leaving the studio, her anger reignited when she saw the cover of the group's first album – the exploding "Hindenburg" aircraft. As Page recalled: Frau von Zeppelin felt the band's
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title, which was released on Led Zeppelin's 1969 debut album "Led Zeppelin". Page was familiar with Holmes' song because his previous band, The Yardbirds, had covered the song. The Led Zeppelin song was not credited to Jake Holmes. While Holmes took no action at the time, he did later contact Jimmy Page in regards to the matter but received no reply. In June 2010, Holmes filed a lawsuit against the guitarist for copyright infringement in a United States District Court, claiming Page knowingly copied his work. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the case was permanently closed. All
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threatened legal action over the concert taking place. In 2001, Greg Kot wrote in "Rolling Stone" that "The cover of "Led Zeppelin" … shows the "Hindenburg" airship, in all its phallic glory, going down in flames. The image did a pretty good job of encapsulating the music inside: sex, catastrophe and things blowing up." The album was advertised in selected music papers under the slogan "Led Zeppelin – the only way to fly". It initially received poor reviews. In a stinging assessment, "Rolling Stone" magazine asserted that the band offered "little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say
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brought a lawsuit against Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement over "Bring It On Home"; the case was settled out-of-court for an undisclosed sum. Plant's harmonica part was recorded in Vancouver. The band went on tour with the master tapes for "Led Zeppelin II" and recorded parts in various studios. Led Zeppelin frequently performed this song live at Led Zeppelin concerts, first appearing as an encore on the band's 1970 UK tour. When played live, the song exhibited sharp interplay between Page's guitar, John Bonham's drums and John Paul Jones' bass. This can be seen on the "Led Zeppelin DVD", which
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All My Love (Led Zeppelin song) "All My Love" is the sixth track on Led Zeppelin's 1979 album "In Through the Out Door". Credited to Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, it is a rock ballad that features a synthesizer solo by Jones. It was written in honour of Plant's son Karac, who died while Led Zeppelin was on their 1977 North American tour. "All My Love" is one of only two Led Zeppelin songs which Jimmy Page had no part in writing (the other being "South Bound Saurez", also from "In Through the Out Door"). At the time, Page
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their eponymous debut album "Kingdom Come", shooting to number 12 on the "Billboard" 200 and reaching sales at approximately 2 million worldwide. The band was also chosen to participate in the Monsters of Rock Tour 1988. The band came under intense criticism for being a Led Zeppelin-soundalike. Years later, Wolf would say that the comparisons were "unjustified," yet "we took it as a compliment and were excited." In March 2018, it was reported that Wolf was in the process of reforming the original Kingdom Come lineup for both a new album and tour. However, when original lineup of Kingdom Come
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this. Because of Plant's injuries, Led Zeppelin did not tour in 1976. Instead, the band completed the concert film "The Song Remains the Same" and the accompanying soundtrack album. The film premiered in New York City on 20 October 1976, but was given a lukewarm reception by critics and fans. The film was particularly unsuccessful in the UK, where, unwilling to tour since 1975 because of their tax exile status, Led Zeppelin faced an uphill battle to recapture the public's affection. In 1977, Led Zeppelin embarked on another major concert tour of North America. The band set another attendance record,
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two days mixing the album at A&R Studios. The finished tracks reflect the evolving sound of the band and their live performances. Plant made his first songwriting contributions on "Led Zeppelin II"; he had been unable to contribute to the writing process for the first album because of a prior contract with CBS Records. "Whole Lotta Love" was built around a three-note Page riff. The lyrics were taken directly from Willie Dixon's "You Need Love", which led to the group being sued for plagiarism, eventually settling out of court. The arrangement also resembles the Small Faces track "You Need Loving".
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place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during the band's 1973 concert tour of the United States. The band's eighth album, "In Through the Out Door", received a sextuple platinum certification. This was the last album released by the band before Bonham died of alcohol intoxication in 1980; Led Zeppelin disbanded immediately afterwards. In 1982 Led Zeppelin released the album "Coda", a compilation of outtakes from the band's previous recordings, but still considered to be a studio album. Since their break-up, the band have released numerous compilation and live albums from older concerts,
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and less than £2,000 to complete. The album showed the group's fusion of blues and rock, and their take on the emerging hard rock sound was immediately commercially successful in both the UK and US. Although the album was not critically well-received when first released, critics have since come to view it in a more favourable light. In July 1968, the English rock band the Yardbirds disbanded after two founder members Keith Relf and Jim McCarty quit the group, with a third, Chris Dreja, leaving to become a photographer shortly afterwards. The fourth member, guitarist Jimmy Page, was left with
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together in the same case. Four bonus tracks were added to the "Coda" disc. These were "Baby Come On Home" which had appeared on "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2", along with some of the previously unreleased tracks that had surfaced on the 1990 box set: "Travelling Riverside Blues", "White Summer/Black Mountain Side", and "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do". This expanded version of "Coda" created for the box set was also later released to digital stores in 2007 with the digital release of the full Led Zeppelin catalog, but with "Travelling Riverside Blues" omitted due to it already being included
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grid in a very rural area at the time, and the moment passed. In late 1973, Rodgers was asked to become the singer of Deep Purple when Ian Gillan had left the band. He rejected their offer in order to start Bad Company. In October 1983, Rodgers released his first solo LP "Cut Loose". He composed all of the music and played all of the instruments. The album reached number 135 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. When his friend Jimmy Page started to come around to his house, guitar in hand and Led Zeppelin at an end, the duo's first
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Page elaborated that "[The song] sounded like an old English instrumental first off. Then it became a vocal and Robert did his bit. Finally we figured we'd bring Sandy by and do a question-and-answer-type thing." To thank her for her involvement, Denny was given the symbol on the album sleeve of three pyramids (the four members of Led Zeppelin each chose their own symbols for the album). This is the only song Led Zeppelin ever recorded with a guest vocalist. In an interview he gave in 1995 to "Uncut" magazine, Plant stated that '[F]or me to sing with Sandy Denny
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Baby Come On Home "Baby Come On Home" is a soul song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded during sessions for the band's debut album but remained unreleased until 1993, when it was included on the compilation "Boxed Set 2". The song was also included as a bonus track on the CD edition of the band's ninth studio album "Coda" as included in "The Complete Studio Recordings" (1993) and "Definitive Collection Mini LP Replica CD Boxset" (2008). In 2015, the song was included on disc one of the two companion discs of the reissue of "Coda". The
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40 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time". In November 2017, "Thank You" was ranked number 28 on Fuse's list of "35 Thank You Songs". Thank You (Led Zeppelin song) "Thank You" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their second studio album "Led Zeppelin II" (1969). It was written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, and produced by Page. "Thank You" signaled a deeper involvement in songwriting by singer Robert Plant: it was the first Led Zeppelin song for which he wrote all the lyrics. According to various Led Zeppelin biographies, this is also the
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"Led Zeppelin IV". This enhanced CD contains a video of a live performance of "Kashmir" from Earls Court in 1975 matched to the studio track. On the compilation, the first two songs were originally released on the album "Houses of the Holy", the next four on "Physical Graffiti", the next two on "Presence", and the final two on "In Through the Out Door". The sleeve that holds the two CDs is made of cardstock. The cover of the sleeve is mainly occupied by the same photo from the cover of "Early Days". It features the members of Led Zeppelin in
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few months earlier. Also, the band for some of its performances was one of the first groups to give single bill concerts without an opening act. However, for the band's concert at Columbia, Maryland, on 25 May, manager Peter Grant agreed for Led Zeppelin to receive second billing in support of The Who. This was the only time that these two English bands ever performed on the same bill. During this tour the band took time out to record tracks at various recording studios for their forthcoming album, "Led Zeppelin II". Many of the tracks were later mixed down by
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The Lemon Song "The Lemon Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album "Led Zeppelin II". It was recorded in Los Angeles when the band were on their second concert tour of North America. The song was inspired by Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor", which was a song Led Zeppelin briefly incorporated into their live setlist during their first concert tour of the United States. For the second and third North American tours the song evolved into "The Lemon Song", with Plant often improvising lyrics onstage (the opening lyrics to both songs are,
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when to say 'no'." In 1977, he was asked by Colonel Tom Parker to manage a proposed concert tour of Europe by Elvis Presley, but Elvis died on 16 August 1977, just as negotiations had commenced. In January 1972, Bernard Chevry, manager of the Midem music business festival wrote to Grant, asking for "Led Zeppelin and his backing group" to appear. Grant was annoyed that Chevry did not realise Led Zeppelin were a group, and in response took out a full-page advertisement in the trade paper "Record Retailer", showing the original Midem letter, captioned "Mr Zeppelin Regrets..." The response was
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Tim Hsung, later recorded this new version in studio for this EP. Other songs of the EP come from the recording sessions for the album "Warrior Soul", while the duet with Krokus singer Marc Storace comes from the soundtrack of the movie "Anuk - Der Weg des Kriegers" and also features the director and main star of the movie Luke Gasser on guitar and production. The song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a cover of the 1969 Led Zeppelin single from the album "Led Zeppelin". All We Are "All We Are" is a song composed by the German heavy
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hyped bands who could barely cut it, and Led Zeppelin initially found themselves fighting upstream to prove their authenticity." However, press reaction to the album was not entirely negative. In Britain the album received a glowing review in "Melody Maker". Chris Welch wrote, in a review titled "Jimmy Page triumphs – Led Zeppelin is a gas!": "their material does not rely on obvious blues riffs, although when they do play them, they avoid the emaciated feebleness of most so-called British blues bands". In "Oz", Felix Dennis regarded it as one of those rare albums that "defies immediate classification or description,
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1971's "Rock and Roll"" from their fourth album. Singer Robert Plant later described "Candy Store Rock", along with "Achilles Last Stand", as the "saving grace[s] of "Presence"". Plant said the song's rhythm section was inspiring to him, partly due to the album's tumultuous recording sessions. Candy Store Rock "Candy Store Rock" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1976 on their album "Presence". It was also released as a single in the United States, but it did not chart. The track is done in the style of a 1950s rock and roll number. Some of lead
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Thank You (Led Zeppelin song) "Thank You" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their second studio album "Led Zeppelin II" (1969). It was written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, and produced by Page. "Thank You" signaled a deeper involvement in songwriting by singer Robert Plant: it was the first Led Zeppelin song for which he wrote all the lyrics. According to various Led Zeppelin biographies, this is also the song that made Jimmy Page realise that Plant could now handle writing the majority of the lyrics for the band's songs. Plant wrote the song
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volume to involve the mind", Led Zeppelin "make body music of an oddly cerebral cast, arousing aggression rather than sexuality." As such, along with other second-generation English hard rock bands like Black Sabbath and Mott the Hoople, they can attract both intellectuals and working-class youths in "a strange potential double audience." Years later, "In Through the Out Door"s "tuneful synthesizer pomp" further confirmed for Christgau they were an art rock band. Page stated that he wanted Led Zeppelin to produce music that had "light and shade". This began to be more clearly realised beginning with "Led Zeppelin III", which made
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"Battle of Evermore" that was included on their fourth album, the song emerged spontaneously when he started experimenting with Jones' banjo, an instrument he had never before played. "I just picked it up and started moving my fingers around until the chords sounded right, which is the same way I work on compositions when the guitar's in different tunings." It is also one of Page's favourite songs on "Led Zeppelin III". Led Zeppelin performed the song a few times live during Led Zeppelin concerts in 1971. Plant sometimes also included the lyrics in live performances of the Led Zeppelin song
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on "Led Zeppelin III" (1970), which stands out among their usual output of blues orientated rock. At this time they also wrote the ballad "Poor Tom" which would surface on "Coda" (1982). It is more subtly manifested in their most famous album "Led Zeppelin IV" (1971), which contained elements of both American folk rock and English electric folk on ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and most obviously on ‘The Battle of Evermore’, on which Sandy Denny had the distinction of being the only person ever to be invited to do guest vocals on a Led Zeppelin album. These influences would also appear
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(Deluxe Edition)", under the title "The Hook". All My Love (Led Zeppelin song) "All My Love" is the sixth track on Led Zeppelin's 1979 album "In Through the Out Door". Credited to Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, it is a rock ballad that features a synthesizer solo by Jones. It was written in honour of Plant's son Karac, who died while Led Zeppelin was on their 1977 North American tour. "All My Love" is one of only two Led Zeppelin songs which Jimmy Page had no part in writing (the other being "South Bound Saurez", also from "In Through
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The Rover (Led Zeppelin song) "The Rover" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin written by guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant. Although mostly recorded years earlier, it was released on the group's 1975 double album, "Physical Graffiti". Writing for the song began in 1970 at Bron-Yr-Aur, a rustic retreat in South Snowdonia, Wales. Initially an acoustic piece, it took on a hard rock arrangement when recorded at Stargroves during the sessions for the "Houses of the Holy" album in 1972. The song was not included on the album, but after Jimmy Page added several guitar overdubs
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rough mix of 'Ramble On', the decisive, melodic force of John Paul Jones' bass and John Bonham's drumming." "As a two-disc set", "Consequence of Sound"s Michael Madden wrote, "this reissue is both a reminder of the original album's wallop and a closer look at the alchemy of a band increasingly attuned to ideas of progression." Raoul Hernandez from "The Austin Chronicle" was more critical of the bonus disc, finding it to be "the thinest of extras" offered by the reissue program. Notes Adapted from the AllMusic credits. Citations Sources Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin II is the second album by
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for Best New Artist, which he lost. He also collaborated with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, for the single "Come with Me" for the 1998 film "Godzilla". The song had sampled "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin, and reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart, whilst stalling at #4 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. He was also obligated to star as Willie Beamen in the motion picture, "Any Given Sunday", the role however went to Jamie Foxx. During the summer of 1998, the recording for Combs' debut album began to take place, and then to commence on the following year. "Forever"
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tour, and also at his daughter Carmen's 21st birthday party in November 1989, with Jason Bonham on drums. Led Zeppelin did not release any singles in the United Kingdom until 1997, when "Whole Lotta Love" was released 28 years after it was written. There were several pressings made of "Trampled Under Foot" as a single in 1975 in time for the band's Earl's Court concerts, but they were all shelved before being released, and are today highly sought-after collectors items. Trampled Under Foot "Trampled Under Foot" is a song by English rock group Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1975 album
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that during the "Yield" sessions, the band made a conscious effort to create more accessible songs. Tom Sinclair of "Entertainment Weekly" stated that the band has "turned in an intermittently affecting album that veers between fiery garage rock and rootsy, acoustic-based ruminations. Perhaps mindful of their position as the last alt-rock ambassadors with any degree of clout, they've come up with their most cohesive album since their 1991 debut, "Ten"." "Given to Fly", the album's first single, was noted for its similarity to Led Zeppelin's "Going to California" from the 1971 album, "Led Zeppelin IV". Lyrically, "Yield" continued with the
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formed "The True Story Band", with jazz musicians Mike Stern, Chris Clark, Ron Bertolet and Jeff Carney. Thaler toured "The True Story Band" through Europe, Canada and the USA in support of the group's two releases, 1997's "Medium Rare Grounds" (TP/Factor) and 1998's "Grain" (EFA/JVC). In 2000 Thaler took to reworking the music of Led Zeppelin for an instrumental context. Thaler recorded "Jazzed & Confused: The Led Zep Project" (TP) in 2001. The album includes Led Zeppelin compositions "Kashmir", "Whole Lotta Love", "The Rain Song", "The Ocean", and "Dazed & Confused", and 25 musicians including guitarists Mike Stern and Dweezil
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and fellow Toto members Jeff Porcaro and David Paich. Lukather has stated that the album is produced in a very simple manner and that one can hear a lot of ambient studio noise such as counting off on various tracks. He also credits bands Pink Floyd, Cream, Led Zeppelin, and guitarists Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton as influences on the album. Much of the material was debuted live in late 1988 when Lukather did a number of solo live dates in the Los Angeles area while the album was being recorded. Lukather Lukather is the first
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influenced not only by his own father's work, Thor S. Greni a performer in 1960—70s Norwegian language soul band Undertakers Circus and in 1968 an opening act for Led Zeppelin, but also by other 1960s and 70s artists such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Mayfield. As a skateboarder he was influenced by punk rock music such as The Jam, Dinosaur Jr. and Hüsker Dü. BigBang was formed in 1992 by Greni, Erik Tresselt and Christer Engen. The group went on a month-long tour of the U.S. in 1993, and released their first album "Waxed" in 1995 on the
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Black Dog (song) "Black Dog" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, the opening track on their fourth album (1971). It was released as a single in the United States and in Australia with "Misty Mountain Hop" as the B-side, reaching number 15 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 10 in Australia. In 2004, the song was first ranked number 294 on "Rolling Stone"s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time before being ranked at number 300 in 2010. Music sociologist Deena Weinstein calls "Black Dog" "one of the most instantly recognisable [Led] Zeppelin tracks".
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unhappy about Plant and Page naming the album after "No Quarter", a Led Zeppelin song which was largely his work. In addition to acoustic numbers, the album features a reworking of Led Zeppelin classics featuring a Moroccan string band and Egyptian orchestra supplementing a core group of rock and roll musicians, along with four Middle-Eastern and Moroccan-influenced songs: "City Don't Cry", "Yallah" (or "The Truth Explodes"), "Wonderful One", and "Wah Wah". The album was #4 on debut on the "Billboard"'s Pop Albums chart. Several years later, Plant reflected on the collaboration very positively: In July 2014, "Guitar World" placed "No
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Basing Street, London. Led Zeppelin were recording their untitled fourth album at the same time. In an interview on the 25th anniversary edition of the album, Tull's bandleader Ian Anderson said that trying to record in that studio was very difficult, because of its "horrible, cold, echoey" feel. There were two recording studios at the location; Led Zeppelin worked in the smaller studio while Tull got the larger, which was the main body of a converted church. The orchestral segments were arranged by David Palmer, who had worked with the band since 1968's "This Was", and would later join as
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Mint 400 (album) Mint 400 is Ammonia's debut studio album. It was released in Australia in October 1995. The album takes its title from an auto race described in Hunter S. Thompson's book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". The album was produced by legendary American producer Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Slayer). Recorded in ten days at Festival Studios in Sydney, the recording captured the band's live sound, avoiding excessive overdubs and studio manipulation. "Mint 400" was an immediate hit in Australia, debuting in the National Album charts at Number 15. The album went out of print in
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of often ... It's so precious to me." A film of the O2 performance, "Celebration Day", premiered on 17 October 2012 and was released on DVD on 19 November. The film grossed $2 million in one night, and the live album peaked at number 4 and 9 in the UK and US, respectively. Following the film's premiere, Page revealed that he had been remastering the band's discography. The first wave of albums, "Led Zeppelin", "Led Zeppelin II", and "Led Zeppelin III", were released on 2 June 2014. The second wave of albums, "Led Zeppelin IV" and "Houses of the Holy",
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their 1969 debut album "Led Zeppelin". Their rendition generally follows Otis Rush's 1966 Vanguard version, but with different instrumentation and dynamics. It also incorporates a break during the guitar solo where Jimmy Page plays a four-bar unaccompanied set-up before relaunching into the solo. Although biographer Keith Shadwick notes Page's fluff on the turnaround coming out of the solo, he concludes the song "ends up as one of the most successful pieces on the first album, with no flat spots and a perfectly symmetrical form, all within the classic blues tradition". Led Zeppelin regularly performed "I Can't Quit You Baby" in
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Led Zeppelin IV The untitled fourth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, was released on 8 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was produced by guitarist Jimmy Page and recorded between December 1970 and February 1971, mostly in the country house Headley Grange. The album contains one of the band's best known songs, "Stairway to Heaven". The informal setting at Headley Grange inspired the band, and allowed them to try different arrangements of material and create songs in a variety of styles. After the band's previous album "Led Zeppelin III" received
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containing six Led Zeppelin selections (one song from each of the first six albums) and two originals. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with producer/engineer Eddie Kramer, best known for his work with Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and was mastered by George Marino, who digitally remastered all of the original Led Zeppelin recordings with Jimmy Page. The album, released on Emanation Records, is distributed by Redeye Distribution., and was also released and distributed in Japan by the Avex Music Group. The group (consisting of Steph Paynes, Leesa Harrington-Squyres, Megan Thomas, and Shannon Conley)
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album ever recorded" as well as an album that unintentionally created metal—"the origin of "everything" that sounds, feels, or even tastes vaguely metallic". In 2003, the album was ranked number 69 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", which described it as "the peak of Seventies hard rock". It was also named the seventh-best album of the 1970s in a list by "Pitchfork". In 2016, Classic Rock magazine ranked "Led Zeppelin IV" as the greatest of all Zeppelin albums. Led Zeppelin Other musicians Other personnel Notes Citations Bibliography Led Zeppelin IV The untitled fourth
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released their second album, "Led Zeppelin II". Recorded mostly on the road at various North American studios, it was an even greater commercial success than their first album, and reached the number one chart position in the US and the UK. The album further developed the mostly blues-rock musical style established on their debut release, creating a sound that was "heavy and hard, brutal and direct", and which would be highly influential and frequently imitated. Steve Waksman has suggested that "Led Zeppelin II" was "the musical starting point for heavy metal". The band saw their albums as indivisible, complete listening
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of 97 by review site "Metacritic". Notes: Led Zeppelin Additional personnel How the West Was Won (Led Zeppelin album) How the West Was Won is a live triple album by the English rock group Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on compact disc on 27 May 2003, and DVD-Audio on 7 October 2003. The recordings are taken from two 1972 performances in California: L.A. Forum (25 June 1972) and Long Beach Arena (27 June 1972). Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak, as is mentioned in the album's liner notes and
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When the Levee Breaks "When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. "When the Levee Breaks" was re-worked by English rock group Led Zeppelin as the last song on their untitled fourth album. Singer Robert Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin. Many other artists have performed and recorded versions of the song. When blues musical
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more critical, especially of the bonus disc: "While "In Through the Out Door" does have some merit, it's cruel of Led Zeppelin to think that anyone, even a dedicated fan, could muster the strength to listen to the album twice in a row." All tracks written by John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant, except where noted. Notes Citations Sources In Through the Out Door In Through the Out Door is the eighth and final studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded over a three-week period in November and December 1978 at ABBA's Polar
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