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Led Zeppelin - Friends

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Album: Led Zeppelin III
Released: 1970

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Page told interviewer Daniel Rachel (The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters) that he wrote this after a massive argument with someone. "And yet you wouldn't know," he said. "I was inspired, I guess, by this feeling: I've just got to release this somehow."

On a trip to India in 1972, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant recorded a version of this song with musicians from Bombay. This version can be found on various bootleg recordings.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote this in 1970 at Bron-yr-Aur, the cottage in Wales they went to after a grueling US tour. The cottage had no electricity or running water. It didn't even have cable.

This was one of a few Led Zeppelin songs that used strings. The band wanted an Indian sound, but unlike The Beatles, they played the instruments themselves instead of bringing in Indian musicians. Their bass player John Paul Jones did the arrangement.

Jimmy Page had his guitar in an alternate tuning for this song. It's Open C tuning, a tuning standard for foreign folk musicians. It explains the low pitched sound and the rattling heard from the strings throughout the song. This is achieved by tuning your strings C, A, C, G, C, E. (thanks, JT - Tullahoma, TN)

Previewing this song for Melody Maker before the album came out, Jimmy Page commented on Robert Plant's vocals: "Robert shows his great range – incredibly high. He's got a lot of different sides to his voice which come across here."

Influenced by Neil Young, this song has been closely referenced to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Carry On." If you listen, the first part of the song is almost exactly identical to this song. Even so, this song has not been tried on conviction of plagiarism like many Zeppelin songs. (thanks, Jeff - Kendall Park, NJ)