{"id":23469,"date":"2024-10-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=23469"},"modified":"2024-10-21T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:27:47","slug":"led-zeps-most-iconic-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/led-zeps-most-iconic-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"LED ZEP\u2019S MOST ICONIC SONGS,\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Norman Warwick considers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LED ZEP\u2019S MOST ICONIC SONGS,\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

according to American Songwriter article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Em<\/a> Casalina, writing recently in American Songwriter, picked three particular songs from the entire Led Zep catalogue as being cuts that typify  the group and their attitude to their music, which she rightly reminds us, is loaded with rich lore, but these three songs are particularly interesting. She then took a quick look at the lore behind three of Led Zeppelin\u2019s most famous songs that every diehard fan should know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whole Lotta Love<\/strong> is an  iconic song from 1969 and is one of Led Zeppelin\u2019s most loved songs, it initially took over a year to finish. Jimmy Page came up with the \u201coriginal\u201d riff sometime in 1968 while living in a houseboat. The track didn\u2019t make it to their debut album, but fortunately, it eventually made it to their lexicon of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page produced the song, which was a wise choice. He didn\u2019t shy away from experimentation and used some unique recording methods to take \u201cWhole Lotta Love\u201d to another level. John Bonham\u2019s drumming became the base of the song, which was recorded in an enormous room at Olympic Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, unique recording prowess aside, the song became the subject of controversy. \u201cWhole Lotta Love\u201d was Led Zeppelin\u2019s first \u201cgold\u201d hit, but some of its lyrics were stolen from \u201cYou Need Love\u201d by Willie Dixon. Robert Plant even admitted it. The band endured a lawsuit in 1985 that was eventually settled, and the song is still closely associated with Led Zeppelin over Dixon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rain Song<\/strong>, a Led Zeppelin hit on their album, Houses Of The Holy has some interesting and almost catty lore behind it. This slow-burn classic is one of the band\u2019s longest songs at seven minutes, and there\u2019s a lot of mystery around its true origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some say Bonham thought it up, while others say that Page came up with the melody via his then-new mixing station. Others see it as a collaborative piece of work that would only have been as good as it was in 1973 with the mutual effort of the band members that produced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allegedly, the song was created after The Beatles\u2019 George Harrison had some criticism for Led Zeppelin after seeing one of their shows. Jimmy Page\u2019s biography author said that Harrison bemoaned the band\u2019s inability to write ballads. So, in Led Zeppelin fashion, they sought to prove him wrong. And they pretty much did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrant Song<\/strong> is probably the most well-known Led Zeppelin song of all time. It makes sense why. It\u2019s an amazing song and one of Robert Plant\u2019s greatest recorded performances. His vocalization is more iconic than the whole meat of the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Plant, the song was about an experience the band had in Iceland. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be their third album\u2019s opener, but it just sort of happened<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were guests of the Icelandic Government on a cultural mission,\u201d said Plant<\/a>. \u201cWe were invited to play a concert in Reykjavik, and the day before we arrived, all the civil servants went on strike, and the gig was going to be cancelled. The university prepared a concert hall for us, and it was phenomenal. The response from the kids was remarkable, and we had a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such legend and lore that surrounds Led Zeppelin\u00b4s has attached itself just as tightly to the shorter archives of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, but we\u00b4ll look at that later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Em Casalina, writing recently in American Songwriter, picked three particular songs from the entire Led Zep catalogue as being cuts\u00a0 that typify\u00a0 the group and their attitude to their music, which she rightly reminds us,.\u00a0is loaded with rich lore. but these three songs are particularly interesting. She then took a quick look at the lore behind three of Led Zeppelin\u2019s most famous songs that every diehard fan should know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,77,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-tradition","category-education","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23583,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23469\/revisions\/23583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}