Timeless Rock Legends

Led Zeppelin closed Houses of the Holy with “The Ocean,” released March 28, 1973, their fifth studio album. The title isn’t water. It’s the crowd, the huge rolling sea of fans the band saw from the stage on their arena tours. So the last song on the record is a band describing the people who bought it. Plenty of bands thank the audience in the liner notes. These four put the audience in the title. I’d play it loud and picture a packed arena 🎸
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One way to hear early Led Zeppelin is through radio broadcasts. "I Gotta Move" comes from one, recorded at Konserthuset in Stockholm on March 14, 1969, for Sveriges Radio.

The broadcast carries four songs: "I Can't Quit You Baby," "I Gotta Move," "Dazed and Confused" and "How Many More Times." The band was only about six months old. Their first concert ever was in Denmark on September 7, 1968, at the Gladsaxe Teen Club, billed as The Yardbirds. Three days after Stockholm, they recorded a Danish TV broadcast.
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People assumed John Bonham was playing two bass drums on "Good Times Bad Times." Jimmy Page said in the BBC book Guitar Greats that "everyone was laying bets that Bonzo was using two bass drums." Bonham had one.

Bonham credited the idea to Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, who played a similar figure on the band's cover of "Ticket to Ride," though Appice did not play it only on the bass drum.

Led Zeppelin recorded the song on October 3, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London. John Paul Jones wrote the main riff on a Hammond organ and later called it the hardest riff he ever wrote. Page ran his solo through a Leslie speaker for the swirling sound.
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote "Ramble On," and it's track 7 on Led Zeppelin II, released October 22, 1969. The song keeps switching between quiet acoustic folk and heavy, driving rock, and it never warns you before it does. Most bands pick one lane per song. These two kept both going at once. Anyone who grew up on this album remembers which half they were waiting for. I was always waiting for the loud one 🎸
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Jimmy Page once explained that he had the chorus idea for “Your Time Is Gonna Come,” while Robert Plant supplied the lyrics for the verses. The song was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in London on October 3, 1968, and Page was trying pedal steel guitar during those sessions, an instrument he had not played before. That unusual mix helped give the track its folk-rock edge. For a first album, Zeppelin were already willing to take some strange chances with the sound. 🎸
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Led Zeppelin's "Tangerine" started life as a different song. In 1968, Jimmy Page and the Yardbirds recorded a demo in New York called "Knowing That I'm Losing You," with Keith Relf singing. It stayed unreleased, and when Jimmy brought it back for Led Zeppelin III in 1970, it became "Tangerine," credited to him alone.

The recording features Jimmy on six-string and twelve-string acoustic guitars, a pedal steel with a wah-wah twist, and a Les Paul solo, with John Paul Jones adding mandolin. The band cut it at Headley Grange using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, and Andy Johns engineered it and mixed it at Olympic Studios in London.

Jimmy has said the song was dedicated to Jackie DeShannon. The Yardbirds' version finally came out in 2017 on Yardbirds '68, with Keith's vocal removed.

Led Zeppelin III quickly went to number one on the album chart after its October 1970 release, and this gentle song sits near the heart of its acoustic side
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John Lennon wrote and produced "Intuition" himself, and it's track 4 on Mind Games, his third solo studio album, released October 29, 1973. It's jaunty and upbeat, built on a driving bass and electronic keyboards. That's a light touch from a man who had spent the early 70s putting very raw feelings on record. I like that he could still sound this relaxed. Next time you play Mind Games, skip to track 4 first and listen to how the bass carries the whole thing 🎹
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Before it was "Out the Blue," John Lennon's song had a different working title: "You Came To Me."

On August 4, 1973, at the Record Plant in New York, John cut the first takes with David Spinozza on guitar, "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow on pedal steel and Jim Keltner on drums. It was so stripped back that it could have sat on his Plastic Ono Band album. Only later did he sweeten it with backing vocals.

That's what I love about it. The song starts as a quiet acoustic confession and slowly grows through gospel, country and choir, finishing somewhere that feels almost like joy, all in 3:23.

It's a love song to Yoko, written when their marriage was shaky and recorded after the two had separated. Rolling Stone's David Fricke compared its production to Phil Spector's work on "The Long and Winding Road," but with the focus on poignance. Ultimate Classic Rock called it the most underrated song on Mind Games
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Queen's very first single flopped. It failed to chart in the US and the UK, and it's the only Queen single that never made the UK chart at all. 🎸
Brian May started writing it in 1970 during acoustic sessions at Imperial College and in his flat on Ferry Road. He later admitted he wasn't sure he was a songwriter at the time. The band first recorded it in 1971 at De Lane Lea Studios, and Brian still considers that early demo the best. When they redid it at Trident Studios, they didn't like the result. According to Wikipedia, after seven or eight failed attempts, engineer Mike Stone stepped in, and his first try finally met with Queen's approval. Another account says they reworked the mix so many times that the band lost count.
It came out on July 6, 1973, a week before their debut album, and went nowhere. Today it's cited as the highlight of that album. Sometimes the song nobody notices at first is the one that starts it all.
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John Lennon wrote "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night," and it came out in the US on September 23, 1974, as the lead single from Walls and Bridges. Elton John played piano and sang harmony on it, and the two of them made a bet over whether it would reach number one. Lennon didn't think it would. It did, and he paid up by joining Elton onstage later that year. Losing a bet has rarely worked out this well 🎹
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