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"The Rain Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It uses an alternative guitar tuning - DGCGCD, a variation of DADGAD. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was released in March 1973 as the second track on their fifth album, Houses of the Holy .
"Heartbreaker" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1969 album, Led Zeppelin II. It was credited to all four members of the band, recorded at A&R Recording and Atlantic Studios in New York City during the band's second concert tour of North America, and engineered by Eddie Kramer.
Clockwise, from top left: Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin were an English rock band who recorded 94 songs between 1968 and 1980. The band pioneered the concept of album-oriented rock and often refused to release popular songs as singles, [1] instead viewing their albums as indivisible, complete listening experiences, and disliked record labels re-editing ...
"No Quarter" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin that appears on their 1973 album Houses of the Holy. It was written by John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant. The song became a centerpiece at all Led Zeppelin concerts thereafter, until their final tour.
Led Zeppelin were honoured by US President Barack Obama at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. Led Zeppelin have collected many honours and awards throughout the course of their career. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, [108] and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006. [224]
Live versions of this song were performed on Led Zeppelin's 1977 concert tour of the United States. John Paul Jones originally played the melody on an acoustic guitar before introducing a custom triple-necked instrument created by Andy Manson, that included six-string and twelve-string guitars, a mandolin, and bass pedals.
The song is about a groupie who stalked the band early in their career, who guitarist Jimmy Page described as "a degenerate old woman trying desperately to be young." Along with vocalist Robert Plant , Page has expressed his distaste for the track, and has called it his least favourite Led Zeppelin song.
The audio mixes also differed from those found on the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD. The most obvious example is that "Black Dog" was two minutes longer on the 2003 DVD than on the 2007 releases, two of the four verses being cut from the song. On 29 July 2008, a four-LP edition of the 2007 re-issue, on 180 gram audiophile vinyl, was released.