..... "Stairway To Heaven" (Track 4) should indeed be not quite as long with 7:55 minutes, but undoubtedly one of the epochalsten works in rock history. Lyrically the search of a mystical lady is portrayed for spiritual perfection. Plant named years later Lewis Spence's '' The Magic Art in Celtic Britain "as one of his textual sources. The song was released with its paradigms of streams, trees, tempting pipers and a brilliant white light Goddess to return as a call of the modern world back to turn to the old religion. When longing of an entire generation of spiritual purification of the song should be a unique hymn, had an unrivaled compromise between the acoustic and metal music sphere found in Page. The six-page intro of composed in Welsh Bron-Yr-Aur piece was included in the London Studios Iceland. The rest, with the 12-page guitar part, Jones' doubled bass flute and the other songs were in the mobile recording studio of the Rolling Stones, which had been brought to Headley Grange (New Hamphire), produces.
"Black Dog" (Track 1) is based on a reef, the John Paul Jones had brought. "Rock & Roll" (2) is a "random composition" in the John "Bonzo" Bonham had initially tumbled the beginning of Little Richard's "Good Molly Miss Molly", while random marched with the recording tape. After Pages spontaneously twelve bars improvised riff the band was indeed suddenly ended, but we had enough material for the song, which was completed by Plants improvised text and a boogie piano Ian Stewart. "The Battle Of Evermore" (3) was a duet from Robert Plant and Sandy Denny, the pages of the game on a mandoline (!) Was accompanied. Initially conceived as a sort of Old English instrumental, it was a modern form of Anglo-Saxon Schlachtenepik because Plant was concerned at the same time with a reading of the Scottish border wars.
With its dense blues riff and Bonhams delicate but incisive drumming, "Misty Mountain Hop" (5) provides an illustration of a Welsh imagery. "Four Sticks" (6) is a Boogie Piano Jam, with the Ur-Rolling Stone Ian Stewart, the clock can remind you of Bo Diddley. The melody of "Going to California" (7) had Page devised for acoustic guitar. The song was a tribute and homage to the Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, who was the idol par excellence for both Page and Plant. In addition, the piece reflected the desire of the group members by the American Sunshine State, with all its excesses. "When The Leeves Break" (8) had heard on an old Shellac record of Memphis Minnie and Kansas McCoy from 1928 Jimmy Page. Page built the classic twelve-bar blues with a harmonica solo phased vocals and with Backward echo around completely so that the listener the feeling of Blue Group is mediated.
The 1971 "Return to the clubs' tour started on March 5 in the torn by civil war between Catholics and Protestants Belfast. When Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven" - for himself Page specifically a guitar with two necks (twelve strings at the top, six on the lower neck) had had made - sang, there was a brief period of peace.
That was finally on November 8, 1971 released album neither a title nor showed the band's name, was waiting inside instead of four mysterious characters on; a spring in the circle for Robert, three interwoven circles for Bonzo, three interwoven ovals, which are in turn woven into a circle of John Paul Jones, and a mystical glyph with the word "Zoso" for Jimmy Page. The as "Untitled" or "Zoso" received in the history of rock music is the highlight of the group, which brings with "Stairway To Heaven" one of the most famous and influential songs of the 20th century. Countless times, including in 2002 by Dolly Parton gecovert with a gospel choir, he is heard, since 2007, as a new carillon of Fürth City Hall tower.
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