Songwriting and Production
Here are 3 very very rich people. One is happy to participate in juicing the public for more based on a story he walked into. The other two aren’t so sure. All three surviving members of Led Zeppelin were supposed to promote the upcoming feature-length documentary film “Becoming Led Zeppelin” at the Venice film festival…
I never saw them though I do remember them coming through town. I thank my old buddy in the States (Tim Chatham) for having the wisdom to sit me down in his parent’s place and turn me on to one of the Greatest Rock bands of all time! “I had a hell of a battle…
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I have followed Jimmy on Instagram. I really like all the new Robert Plant records. He is a great songwriter. Jimmy is a great guitar player. They were lucky they met each other but they also had the ability to take things further than common talent. There was me and the engineer Keith Harwood, and…
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There were also some moments where cloaked references to Page’s ongoing obsession with the occult could be discerned: images of ‘Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace’ and a ‘pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream’ – pilot? Or Magus, perhaps?Performed for the first time on the band’s…
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Some of the tracks on Led Zeppelin sounded like they were being jammed, but there’s a real magic in that. Good Times Bad Times is the perfect way to kick off an album; and I prefer the studio version of Dazed And Confused to the live one on The Song Remains The Same. I also…
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Richard Branson’s then newly-established Virgin Records set up special stalls to sell it, demand was so great. It was a similar story in the US, though Carole King’s Tapestry kept it off the No.1 spot. It didn’t matter. The airplay generated by Stairway To Heaven ensured the album remained in the Top 40 of the…