Robert Plant Names His Five Favourite Led Zeppelin Songs

[@jackheinle54]

"Thank you" is one of the most amazingly beautiful songs ive ever heard. Almost brings me to tears everytime i hear it

[@AlbertoJorgeSoares]

Ten Years Gone and The Rain Song are two great ones, also.

[@tonym2513]

The Rain Song is the most beautiful to play on an acoustic guitar.

[@Progmeister-tb3sn]

Those two are my personal favorites. Impossible to top.

[@swampsagacity4685]

The lyrics of The Rain Song are beautiful as well

[@dogsbodyish8403]

@@tonym2513 As Chiara Kilchling demonstrates here on YT.

[@frankgaitan2702]

“Ten years gone “ the greatest Zeppelin song EVER!!!!!

[@Zoso_1990]

Great shout, certainly top 5 for me. Certainly their most beautiful moment.

[@PaulFormentos]

Plants best lyric

[@mccoin6274]

Fckn right 👌👌👌

[@jmeakin4]

Robert's gone on record stating that 'Ramble On' is another personal favorite.

[@West-su2oe]

One of my favorites

[@OwenW750]

I saw him as a solo act live about 12 years ago and Ramble on was one of only a couple of Zeppelin songs he did

[@tenkarabadger5244]

…but he’s also said he finds the lyrics embarrassing.

[@dougim]

My favorite song off IV is “When the Levee Breaks”. “Stairway to Heaven” is an epic classic, but the massive sense of oncoming doom in “Levee” really gets me.

[@davidknudson5166]

Me too, Bonham’s thunderest drums, Plants harmonica, Amazing song!!!

[@FrankLee-n8j]

"Since I've been loving you" is their best Blues song, I think.

[@dougim]

@@FrankLee-n8jIt’s a masterpiece. TBH I listen to III more than IV.

[@mclovin9678]

I love that Four Sticks

[@PaulFormentos]

Oncomin doom of stairway backmask always gets me

[@retrodog2837]

The original live recording of "No Quarter" on the album the song remains the same is one of the greatest songs ever recorded live!!!

[@classiccorvettesmusclecars5846]

The 1st album to me is awesome, raw & the definition of deep hard & at times eerie rock..

[@svenshipman3612]

They are the only band i can think of other than the Beatles that really dont have a bad song. Legends

[@markgullick1725]

I really enjoyed that, and I was pleased to see Achilles up top. First band I ever saw, Earls Court, 1975. Bravo!

[@easybullet3]

And then Sidique Kahan (corruptly) approved a developer to knock it down and build flats, and its been baron land ever since). And now, ironically, they have built a stadium at Earls Court recently! I wish they could have left Earls Court in-tact.

[@SevenThunderful]

My vote is for ten years gone. Deeply moving song with great lyrics and some fantastic emotional guitar leads.

[@DickNasty480]

VERY underrated song

[@america1st721]

Tangerine? Gallows pole? Dazed and confused I consider the 1st metal song ever.

[@mrb7094]

I adore The Song Remains the Same. That's my favourite Zep track. It's joyous, utterly original, somehow both simple and complex at the same time, and the guitar playing is just sublime. Those first few notes, the tension between the guitar and bass... gets me every time!

[@mrb7094]

@@america1st721 Love Gallows Pole. Incredible version. In fact Zep III is my favourite album, or at least up there with PG.

[@TylerDonald-b2x]

@@america1st721funny when zeppelin is a rip off of Jeff becks band

[@nickdibiase8754]

You forget how huge Jones is in this band. He is very reserved but is amazing

[@kurt5490]

I think Plant & Page were creatively burned out at this point. That allowed Jones to take the lead. Presence and In through the out door are my 2 favorite albums. This explains why.

[@RSTI191]

My favorite Zeppelin tunes are as follows and not necessarily in this order: The First Album The 2nd Album The 3rd Album The 4th Album Houses of the Holy The Song Remains the Same Physical Graffiti Presence In Through the Out Door..

[@frankfroml.a.4104]

Enough said!!👍

[@jeffbrown321]

^ This

[@igoryarmolyuk6459]

In Through the Out Door sucks. Maybe good they split

[@jmeakin4]

@@RSTI191 No CODA?

[@RSTI191]

@@igoryarmolyuk6459 We can tell by all the videos you have posted of your talents, expertise, worldly experience and knowledge you truly are a man to be reckoned with. We should bow to you and hold you in reverence. This is how you spend your time? Responding to comments left by others? Sounds exciting. Was a college degree a prerequisite for this life? People void of talent will always try to make a name for themselves by criticizing other people "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”…..Martin Luther King

[@Kram2525]

Night Flight, Houses of the Holy, The Rover

[@gregs8685]

The Rover is great! Night Flight is really good. Houses of the Holy is not my thing, a preview of In Through The Out Door.

[@ronn68]

Led Zeplin is one of a few bands where I like every single song they wrote.

[@xXcampx]

Even Hot Dog??

[@michaelsapoznik5984]

Carouselambra? 🤮

[@keithschwartz5723]

Rain Song, Battle of Evermore, What Is and What Will Never Be, The Song Remains the Same, Ten Years Gone

[@enoughcorruption5975]

Very interesting take from Plant! Kashmir, in the light, the wanton song and Achilles last stand of course with all of my love dedicated to his beautiful son who should still be with us! I think all of these are brilliant with in the light being the most underrated, its tremendous! They have so many truly great songs ,its impossible to say which 5 or 10 are thier best but its subjective and depends on your mood! One night you want to rock and you put on presence or physical graffiti then something a bit lighter like houses of the holy or in through the outdoor! And then you want a mixture of thier great diversity and you put on 4 or 1 or get blown away with the live album! This is why Zep is hands down the best rock band in history! ❤🎉💯👍🏻🇺🇸

[@TuberRene]

Great front man for the greatest band ever. First band I saw live was Led Zeppelin in 1970 at the Oakland Coliseum. Epic concert. There was no third album yet, so they performed most of the first and second albums. Unforgettable evening.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Jimmy Page has also said: Achilles Last Stand is his personal Favorite and "The most Led Zeppelin Sounding Song" - they ever created.

[@RfrancisR]

I am so glad that Kashmir is Plants favorite and Achilles Last Stand is Page’s favorite Zeppelin song, and I’ve said in the past that Kashmir was greater than Stairway, and that Achilles Last Stand was one of the bands top 3-5 songs. It’s a thrill when a fan’s preferences of songs from a band are similar to what members of the band likes most about their music.

[@AlexandraHorn-t4b]

Immigrant Song,Tea for one...💓

[@michael_caz_nyc]

@@AlexandraHorn-t4b So many Killer-tracks. Can't forget Ramble On & The Wanton Song.

[@AlexandraHorn-t4b]

@@michael_caz_nyc 👍👍Zep is😉medicine!

[@piscesman54]

To me, the song that embodies everything Zeppelin was is Ramble On. It has it all--the subdued Celtic folklore of the verses with the reflective lyrics, and then the epic explosive hard rock of the chorus, and the ending, where they would all cut loose. It just doesn't get any better than that.

[@jmeakin4]

@piscesman54 - 'Ramble On' has perhaps the best orchestration of any work in the past century. Each part is stellar, especially the bass line, and when combined, make for a virtually perfect song. Like Led Zeppelin's musicians, the parts each have top virtuosity; yet, the sum total is greater than each of those parts.

[@piscesman54]

@@jmeakin4 Absolutely. Yes, the bass line crafted by JPJ is probably one of the best ever written. They way it counters the melody is simply brilliant, so musical and in such good taste and sensitivity.

[@walterfechter8080]

"Thank You" (Led Zeppelin) for my heavenly-resplendent wife, Barbra Rose (RIP). The lyrics say it all. Many thanks, Robert Plant.

[@patrickjenkins2788]

Great vid great list, with Zep there’s no wrong answer. I would add in my time of dying and since I’ve been loving you.

[@riteandleft]

I was told by a member of a tribute band in the UK that Robert had told him that 'Thank You' was his favourite.

[@samr.england613]

'Tea for One' has always been my favorite track off of Presence. Jimmy's light stringed, almost background solo evokes an image of a teardrop falling through a blue spotlight. 'Achilles', while a powerful testimony and proof of Zep's musicianship and skills, always came across to me like they were trying to outdo their previous works, such as 'Kashmir' and 'Stairway'. And one of my favorite Zep tunes, never even played on commercial radio TMK, is 'Four Sticks'. Plant's howling, screeching lyrics, with Jimmy's 4 on the floor rhythmic groove and his echoing, acoustic change-up? Oh man! 'And when the owls cry in the night, Oh baby, baby when the pines begin to cry...' A truly magical song.

[@54mrys]

Favorite for me as well.

[@Vidar93]

I think presence is one of their more underrated albums to casual fans. Hots for nowhere, Royal Orleans, tea for one and Achilles don't get the love they deserve. And while four sticks is great I am not quite sure what you mean about Jimmy's four on the floor groove? The song starts in 5/4 and the chorus is in 6/8. Or well some count it as 5/8 and 6/8 but its definitely not a 4/4 four on the floor type of feel.

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

My faves are Ramble On, Dazed and Confused, In My Time of Dying, The Rain Song, Stairway To Heaven, Tangerine, In The Evening, When The Levee Breaks. And I love Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You.

[@17Clovers]

A Great list!

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Gonna guess Kashmir Ten Years Gone Achilles When Levee Breaks All of my love

[@andrewSUN17]

Led Zep II is etched in stone in my mind as one of the most incredible recording feats and also a dynamic and dimensional album. Explosive, sincere, calm and layered! Sonic ecstasy!

[@LawannaRoberts-x8w]

Always loved them and love there songs❤😊

[@michaelgibbons7144]

As a cyclist and a fan, Kashmir is by far my favorite Led Zepplin song, the drum beat has go me up a lot of hills just relentless....almost perfect

[@riteandleft]

Note that you don't actually see Plant say the names of these songs, we have to believe the narrator.

[@ronnociar1216]

I think that would be because Robert likely changes is choices depending on his life's experiences at any one particular time. That would be a true artist and that he is no doubt about that.

[@dougcarson5202]

@@ronnociar1216 Glad you've pointed this out. I was very happy to see that Robert is now acknowledging the particular excellence of "Achilles Last Stand". During a past band reunion performance, he is said to have told Page and Jones that he didn't want to performance this one because it was "too heavy metal". Page and Jones are said to have groaned in disappointment at this. Going back even further to when the "Presence" album containing this song as the lead off track was being recorded, Plant has been said to get so excited at the possibilities presented here (no pun intended) that he jumped up and fell off of the wheelchair he had been in since the car crash he was involved in while vacationing in Greece with his family. So evidently his opinion here has changed at least twice, even further supporting your point, here.

[@StephenHankins]

Good point

[@petersamboy2578]

I believe that Physical Graffiti is the greatest rock album of all time, fantastic !!

[@Dr_Bombay]

Hard to argue with this. Achille's Last Stand really is the pinnacle of Zeppelin's work as a band, and the other are also really singular standouts in their catalog.

[@DebraMoffatt]

Ramblin On and Stairway to Heaven I could listen to everyday...My daughter worked at a book store in Rancho Mirage California, and all she could talk about was how nice a man he was!

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Great story !

[@Mo_Ketchups]

Tea for One. A shocker. It’s almost rock bottom on MY list. Took me for a loop. 😮‍💨

[@mjp96]

Not me, I love that song, for its blues sound without being so loud.

[@marmarsmandalas]

Loved this SOmuch!! ❤

[@calm713]

Trampled Under Foot is my favorite Zeppelin song, then Whole Lotta Love, then Kasmir, then Achilles Last Stand, then ...

[@youtoo2233]

Great picks by Plant. Two from Presence, two from Graffiti and one from Out Door. Love the guitar on Tea for One, Page takes you on a journey thats not of this world

[@mikeonfreeserve2926]

A journey of cold blue steel and sweet fire

[@robinbourassa1390]

Kashmir was always my 2nd favorite! Named a cat after this song! So incredibly beautiful and complex! Although not on anyone’s radar, my all time favorite, I have no idea why, is Misty Mountain Hop! ✨❤️‍🔥🤘

[@gunnerblaskey8864]

Just a trivial note: I heard a studio tape from when Physical Graffiti was written..... "In the Light" had a beautiful haunting arpeggio type melodic track that did not make it onto the album.... it added another dimension to the music....

[@alta58043]

Black Dog, When the Levee Breaks, Whole Lotta Love and Ramble On are my favorites.

[@jesspayant1667]

For me, it's Kashmir, Immigrant Song, Going to California, The Ocean, and Stairway to Heaven. In that order. All for different reasons. Everyone will have their own personal favorites or greatest lists. That's the mark of a truly great band. It doesn't matter if it's The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Metallica, Iron Maiden, or any other great band. There may be "better" songs, but it all boils down to what speaks to the listener.

[@mikeb.7183]

I love what Robert has gone on to do post Led Zeppelin, while it is not in my musical wheelhouse it’s not Zeppelin and for that I respect him for his change in direction without selling out and keeping his vision.

[@sixstrings1063]

All are my favorites! No list required

[@gazooie1958]

The whole album is legendary, but the first song I remember from IV, wafting from my older brothers room was Going to California. Long time ago.

[@chrispetritsch1291]

They are all great Zeppelin songs but they are all close to the last Zeppelin songs i would go for.

[@5richmedia5]

i agree with Robert, Kashmir is my favorite, the guitar work is incredible.

[@CoolCoyote]

not being an absolute led zep fan I love 'Over The Hills And Far Away' 'Thank You' /Bring It On Home/Tangerine/Going To California/In the Light/Down by the Seaside/Babe I'm Gonna Leave You/Ramble On/Stairway To Heaven/Dazed and Confused/How Many More Times live'/The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song live'.

[@raysearch-iu3fr]

All excellent picks, but I personally love Stairway to Heaven because it's filled with Rosicrucian alchemical themes that speak directly to the soul's subconscious.

[@Comeoffitman]

It brings good vibes and good energy. Ted Bonzakas interview in 1968 is hard to beat. They had just recorded there second album and one year from Graffiti one I forgot the name When he hurt his vocal cords and the guy from whiteboard almost took his place when block oak Kansas went talking

[@brigidwell]

I might go with: Battle of Evermore, Ten Years Gone, Friends, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California.

[@ThaiThom]

Kashmir All My Love In the Light Tea for One Achilles Last Stand

[@user-eh3bb2iv1o]

LZ was constantly looking to push the boundaries of what music could sound like. They NEVER accepted their previous accomplishments. That’s what makes them stand apart from every other band (which operated within carefully crafted parameters). LZ always pushed those barriers to a level, which will never be repeated by another musical composition.

[@FrankLee-n8j]

As far as Page's Guitar solos, Achilles last stand is his tour de force! Bonham drums sound like charging horses. my favorite Zeppelin Song is Whole lotta Love. That's the 1st song I heard on WIFI 92 FM Radio, Philadelphia back in 1975. I was 15 and hooked! "How many more times" was an epic start from their Debut self titled album.

[@timwhitnell7145]

There are really no wrong answers when someone names their five favourite Led Zeppelin songs but my list would be quite different: When The Levee Breaks, The Rain Song, The Rover, Houses of the Holy and Stairway To Heaven. Why so many people seem to be retconning Stairway To Heaven in a negative light I just don't understand. It is an all-time classic and perhaps the greatest rock song ever. Plant is entitled to his opinion of it ,as he essentially wrote it all, but I believe it might be the best example of a song that builds in tempo to a totally satisfying and still unexpected crescendo, a song imbued with feeling and meaning with incredible use of acoustic, 12-string and electric guitars plus the immortal evocative lyrics that remain open to interpretation to this day.

[@Ace8Three]

Communication breakdown is my favourite

[@AlmostEthical]

I think Achilles Last Stand is probably their best too. I'd add The Rain Song, Since I've Been Loving You, Ten Years Gone and Stairway, even if it was overplayed. Great band with such a great lineup - every album was good.

[@brianpeixoto2189]

Bring it on home. Best Zep song ever

[@MichaelLynch1]

Stairway to Heaven Ten Years Gone Kashmir In My Time of Dying Rain Song

[@17nussbaumroad]

The Rover is the greatest Led Zeppelin song ever !!

[@tatemcilwain1775]

They’re all songs from their last 3 albums, nothing before 1975. Interesting to think about because aside from physical graffiti, most people think of that period as led zeppelins weaker stuff. But the songs mentioned in this video are good and I see how Robert would like them.

[@davidankrom1247]

Well… the two songs from Presence were their peak, imo. Their best rock song in Achilles, yes, showing what they were capable of, and I believe what they were shooting for all along. They reached it with that one. Also, tea was their best blues song. A mature, beautiful song. His best blues solo. Those two alone are worth the price of the album alone. They reach d the top of their mountain with the those, and what came after was anticlimactic.

[@ronburgundy8174]

Don't get me wrong.. I love all of Led Zeppelins stuff and I realize tbat Kashmir may be considered the pinnacle of their achievements but It's not one of my favorites. Tha's just me though. Still a great song but I prefer their faster songs like Gallows Pole, Achilles Last Stand, When The Levee Breaks, In My Time of Dying, Fool In The Rain, etc. My favorite band though...hands down.

[@kevinsnipes9572]

Dazed and Confused + That's the Way

[@chrisradano]

Whole Lotta Love How Many More Times No Quarter Ten Years Gone Good Times, Bad Times

[@olavirannisto3552]

My fav is 'Whole Lotta Love'.

[@christophermarston4491]

Always been in my time of dying for me physical graffiti is in the top 5 albums of all time easily excluding classical music baroque romantism Beethoven Mozart Brahms and such

[@arphod]

Before watching: Ramble On, Four Sticks, Rain Song, In My Time of Dying, When the Levee Breaks

[@bencompson]

In this video I heard Plant say that Kashmir was his favorite, or sort of say that. I did not hear him acknowledge that any of the others were in some sort of top five list of his. Seems like the author of the video is just plugging in ones that he likes or thinks reveal some sort of intimacy. I enjoyed his take on those songs but is there really a need for every KZbin video to be duplicitous?

[@dirtyds2240]

What about the Rain song !? And I’m gunna crawl ?!

[@ronnociar1216]

Regarding Stairway to Heaven, I would like to ask Robert (and I have personal experience of the following) : Have you after time been able to listen and hear the song as a single entity rather then just hearing all the parts collaboratively falling into your ears all at one time ? I respect his take on absolutely everything he addresses, but this one kinda sets me back upon my heels. I get it, I get it, I get it, both sides of the equation but somehow when this song of all songs (and like all songs) is heard for there complete singular "PRESENTS" , there is no denying the grand yous Top of the pile accolades Stairway to Heaven sumins from pretty much all who hear it. As an artist its sometimes hard to hear totality rather than just your contributing parts. Absolutely no disrespect intended. Probably the biggest Led Head and Plant fan on Earth / Ron.

[@donnaplumridge9769]

I have to agree with Robert Plant about Kashmir, I absolutely adore the song and it really shows each of their greatness as musicians, where as Stairway To Heaven, to me is much more mundane. I hate to say it I found boring after listening to it after a while. Mind you, I like Stairway To Heaven, there’s other Zeppelin songs I much prefer to listen to and I think are better ( When The Levee Breaks, Since She’s Been Gone and The Rain Song ) to name a few.

[@timrobinson100]

The rover, levee and Achilles for me

[@randolphschonour2062]

One of VH1's 100 list shows was 100 Greatest Songs Of Rock And Roll and the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway To Heaven" was in the top 3. The only songs on that list that were higher was Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" which was the #1 song of rock and roll. Aretha Franklin's song "Respect" was #2. "Stairway To Heaven" ranked at #3. That list show also had "Whole Lotta Love" and "Kashmir." Those are the Led Zeppelin songs I'm the most familiar with.

[@MrRudyc85]

Stairway To Heaven should have been number 1. How Smells Like Teen Spirit was 41 instead of being top 20 is a joke. Also Yesterday by the Beatles is easily top 5 higher than number 9

[@Tavat]

God, I love this man.

[@davidconnor5136]

Gallows pole for me

[@ronburgundy8174]

Absolute money song!

[@redfat81]

Led zep is the only group for which there is no poor song in an album - all at 100% is founding place in each moment of your life blues, folk, power, Groove …listening thé 10 album since now moré than 40 years every day

[@darylcumming7119]

Is is clear the narrator is a fan of band and the writer of the piece ?

[@joeniccoli1916]

Although I always liked it I'm a bit surprised to see 2 from the Presence album.

[@michaelmelillo7371]

I could see Plant going this way as they were the later albums and what he may deem as the band's "growth". Me? I'm good with just about everything from Zep I through Presence.

[@Pouloririri]

whats the song at 47 seconds?

[@rrwjes]

Since I've Been Loving You is the defining piece for me. It is the very definition of blues rock. It is what Led Zeppelin was to me. Deeply moving music.

[@russ99a]

Since I’ve Been Loving you is early Zeppelin, raw, bombastic, full of vigor. Tea for One is the bookend, worn down by constant touring, the dark side of success and personal tragedy. They’re both great, but Tea for One is my favorite.

[@mjp96]

Kashmir annoys some. Not me. I can't compare it to anything.

[@jimc2140]

The Song Remains the Same!

[@karlforster4907]

Agreed, Kashmir is much better than Stairway to Heaven, I good song no doubt but still Kashmir...

[@richardhastie1432]

Kashmir is clearly Zeppelin's high point. There is no reasonable argument against this.

[@Spicyramenmama]

Wow im surprised. I guess with my love for Led Zepplin I was hoping at least one of my favorites would be his but nope not one match. Dont get me wrong I love Kashmir and All Of My Love but they arent in my top 5 favorite, mine include Babe Im Gonna Leave You, Since Ive Been Loving You with the heavy guitar, and Gallows Pole. Theres just so many great songs by them

[@jayclarke6671]

You're cute is that really you? 😅

[@davidwilliamson2341]

You look like a perv is that you, who does that!

[@america1st721]

Bottom line there is no "bad" song from the mighty Zep, hit shuffle and push play...

[@shesaladyintx4476]

Since I've Been Loving you is a sexy song.

[@ulfhansson6599]

Custard Pie !

[@DanielWebb-th4ik]

Told you guys Presence was the best

[@ericbgordon1575]

Only in recent years have I come to appreciate Robert's nuances. Because of how overplayed a cluster of Zeppelin tracks have been since they were together, I have avoided listening to most of their music.

[@1961Kalle]

Robert Plant hat JPJ nie die Anerkennung gezollt die er verdient hat. Ohne John Paul Jones kein Led Zeppelin.

[@bakerman10]

Custard Pie

[@jayclarke6671]

Zeppelin was GOAT period. I will say though that Kashmir sounds much more exciting fuller and richer on the radio than on record. For me it tends to drag a bit without the processing and compression you get on radio.

[@harpman1876]

British AI voice.

[@loontil]

...the worst kind...

[@Michael-Philip]

Wanton Song

[@loontil]

totally rocks, that riff.. .

[@Mondello491]

Led Zeppelin took “some liberties, I must say,” Page admitted. “As far as my end of it goes, I always tried to bring something fresh to anything that I used,” he claimed. He put the blame on Plant: “Robert was supposed to change the lyrics, and he didn’t always do that, which is what brought on most of the grief.” Decide for yourself who’s to blame: here are 10 cases when the band, at least initially, didn’t give other songwriters their due.

[@Mondello491]

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"[edit] Main article: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You § Led Zeppelin version The band covered Joan Baez's version of the song written by Anne Bredon; both guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant were fans of Baez. Baez's album Joan Baez in Concert, where Baez's version of the song appeared, had originally indicated no writing credit, and Led Zeppelin credited the song as "Trad. arr. Page". In the 1980s, Bredon was made aware of Led Zeppelin's version of the song, and since 1990 the Led Zeppelin version has been credited to Anne Bredon/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant. Bredon received a substantial back-payment of royalties.[1] Music critic Andy Hermann researched and rejected the common accusation that Page copied the guitar riff from either Chicago or George Harrison.[2] The basis of the intro riff may have also been inspired by “Hampstead Incident” by Donovan, which was featured on an album Page and John Paul Jones were both involved with on certain tracks.

[@Mondello491]

This song was correctly credited to Willie Dixon, but a similar controversy exists over whether Page got the idea from friend and former bandmate Jeff Beck: [Beck] had the same sort of taste in music as I did. That's why you'll find on the early LPs we both did a song like "You Shook Me." It was the type of thing we'd both played in bands. Someone told me he'd already recorded it after we'd already put it down on the first Zeppelin album. I thought, "Oh dear, it's going to be identical", but it was nothing like it, fortunately. I just had no idea he'd done it. It was on Truth but I first heard it when I was in Miami after we'd recorded our version. It's a classic example of coming from the same area musically, of having a similar taste.[3] Major differences between both versions include the prominence afforded Nicky Hopkins's keyboard playing in the Mickie Most mix, and that Rod Stewart sings only two verses in the Jeff Beck recording.[4] shook me

[@Mondello491]

"Dazed and Confused"[edit] Main article: Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes song) § Led Zeppelin Page was performing his version of this song with the Yardbirds, before forming Led Zeppelin. In 1967, while touring with the Yardbirds, Page saw Jake Holmes perform the song in New York. On the first Led Zeppelin album, the band's version was credited solely to Jimmy Page.[5] A 2010 lawsuit appears to have been settled out of court, the case being dismissed and Holmes being added to the songwriting credit.[6]

[@Mondello491]

"Black Mountain Side"[edit] Main article: Black Mountain Side Al Stewart learned Bert Jansch's version of the traditional song "Down by Blackwaterside". However, he mistook Jansch's 'drop-D' tuning for DADGAD. At the time, Stewart was recording his own debut record and had engaged Jimmy Page as a session musician. According to Stewart's account, it was he (Stewart) who taught Page 'Blackwaterside' (the DADGAD version) during a tea-break.[7] In spite of this difference, Jansch's record company sought legal advice following the release of Led Zeppelin.[8] Early in 1965, Anne Briggs and Jansch were performing regularly together in folk clubs[9] and spent most of the daytime at a friend's flat, collaborating on new songs and the development of complex guitar accompaniments for traditional songs.[10] Ultimately, no legal action was taken against Led Zeppelin, because it could not be proven that the recording in itself constituted Jansch's own copyright, as the basic melody was traditional. Nevertheless, Jansch said that Page "ripped me off, didn't he? Or let's just say he learned from me."[8]

[@stupadasso5023]

From a “live” performance perspective, 1976 MSG performance of Stairway to Heaven is my favorite. Otherwise, the rain song from the album’s holds dear to me.

[@enoughcorruption5975]

You mean 1973 at the Garden:) Those 3 nights were Zeppelin at thier best!

[@stupadasso5023]

@ Thanks for the clarification, don’t know why I was thinking 1976

[@jeper1969]

@@stupadasso5023 the soundtrack was released with the movie in 1976 . 👍

[@curiousuranus810]

Hey studio number six! Can't you even find a real human to narrate this?

[@bakerman10]

Kashmir is actually one of my least favorite Zep tunes.

[@JohnDoe-xu2vx]

Stairway to Heaven is one of my least favorite Zep songs.

[@grokeffer6226]

My favorites from Led Zeppelin would have to include The Rain Song, Thank You, Since I Been Loving You, Over the Hills and Far Away, and No Quarter. It's hard to pick and choose, though. There're just so many great ones, you'd feel like you were slighting a song by not naming it and end up naming a hundred. ❤🪶🧒🎄