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Led Zeppelin Songs - Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven


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Album: Led Zeppelin 4
Released: 1971

Stairway To Heaven Lyrics


Stairway To Heaven
  • The most famous rock song of all time, this didn't chart because it was never released as a single to the general public. Radio stations received promotional singles which quickly became collector's items.

    On Tuesday November 13, 2007, Led Zeppelin's entire back catalogue was made available as legal digital downloads, making all of their tracks eligible for the UK singles chart. As a result, at the end of that week the original version of "Stairway To Heaven" arrived in the UK singles charts for the first time. Previously, three covers had charted: the multinational studio band Far Corporation reached #8 with their version in 1985, then reggae tribute act Dread Zeppelin crawled to #62 in 1991 and finally Rolf Harris' reworking outdid the other two, peaking at #7 in 1993.
  • Robert Plant spent much of the '70s answering questions about the lyrics he wrote for "Stairway." When asked why the song was so popular, he said it could be its "abstraction," adding, "Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way - and I wrote the lyrics."

    The lyrics take some pretty wild turns, but the beginning of the song is about a woman who accumulates money, only to find out the hard way her life had no meaning and will not get her into heaven. This is the only part Plant would really explain, as he said it was "a woman getting everything she wanted without giving anything back."
  • Led Zeppelin started planning "Stairway" in early 1970, when they decided to create a new, epic song to replace "Dazed And Confused" as the centerpiece of their concerts. Jimmy Page would work on the song in an 8-track studio he had installed in his boathouse, trying out different sections on guitar. By April, he was telling journalists that their new song might be 15-minutes long, and described it as something that would "build towards a climax" with John Bonham's drums not coming in for some time. in October, 1970 after about 18 months of near constant touring, Page and Plant worked on the song at a Welsh cottage called Bron-yr-Aur, where they started writing songs for the album. They started recording it in December when the band convened at Island Studios in London, but were only able to record the intro to their satisfaction.

    To complete "Stairway" and the rest of the album, they changed venues and went to Headley Grange in Liphook Road, Headley, Hampshire, where they recorded using a mobile studio owned by The Rolling Stones. It was a huge, old, dusty mansion with no electricity but great acoustics. Bands would go there to get some privacy and focus on songwriting, as the biggest distractions were the sheep and other wildlife. Here's more information and a photo of Headley Grange.
  • The lyrics came to Robert Plant in a flash of inspiration when he and Jimmy Page were sitting by the fireplace at Headley Grange with Page strumming the intro chords. Said Plant: "I was holding a pencil and paper, and for some reason I was in a very bad mood. Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold/And she's buying a stairway to heaven.' I just sat there and looked at the words and then I almost leapt out of my seat."

    Plant's implication that something else was moving his pencil for him led to speculation that it was Satan who was dictating the words, and along with the backward messages and Page's Aleister Crowley connection, there was enough evidence for many listeners that the devil had some role in creating this song.
  • This is rumored to contain backward satanic messages, as if Led Zeppelin sold their souls to the devil in exchange for "Stairway To Heaven." Supporting this theory is the fact that Jimmy Page bought Aleister Crowley's house in Scotland, known as Boleskine House. In his books, Crowley advocated that his followers learn to read and speak backwards.

    Robert Plant addressed the issue in an interview with Musician magazine: "'Stairway To Heaven' was written with every best intention, and as far as reversing tapes and putting messages on the end, that's not my idea of making music. It's really sad. the first time I heard it was early in the morning when I was living at home, and I heard it on a news program. I was absolutely drained all day. I walked around, and I couldn't actually believe, I couldn't take people seriously who could come up with sketches like that. There are a lot of people who are making money there, and if that's the way they need to do it, then do it without my lyrics. I cherish them far too much." (thanks, Rob - Easton, PA and Tolga - Naples, FL)
  • This runs 8:03, but still became one of the most-played songs on American radio, proving that people wouldn't tune out just because a song was long. It was a perfect fit for FM radio, which was a newer format challenging the established AM with better sound quality and more variety. "Stairway" fit nicely into what was called the "Album Oriented Rock" (AOR) format, and later became a staple of Classic Rock. By most measures, it is the most-played song in the history of American FM radio. It has also sold more sheet music than any other rock song - about 10,000 to 15,000 copies a year, and more than one million total.
  • Jimmy Page has a strong affinity for this song, and felt Robert Plant's lyrics were his best yet. He had him write all of Zeppelin's lyrics from then on.

    In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine (March 13, 1975) the interviewer, Cameron Crowe, asked Jimmy Page how important "Stairway To Heaven" was to him. Page replied: "To me, I thought 'Stairway' crystallized the essence of the band. It had everything there and showed the band at its best... as a band, as a unit. Not talking about solos or anything, it had everything there. We were careful never to release it as a single. It was a milestone for us. Every musician wants to do something of lasting quality, something which will hold up for a long time and I guess we did it with 'Stairway.' Townshend probably thought that he got it with Tommy. I don't know whether I have the ability to come up with more. I have to do a lot of hard work before I can get anywhere near those stages of consistent, total brilliance."
  • This was the only song whose lyrics were printed on the album's inner sleeve.
  • Many novice guitarists try to learn this song, and most end up messing it up. In the movie Wayne's World, it is banned in the guitar shop where Wayne (Mike Myers) starts playing it. If you saw the movie in theaters, you heard Wayne play the first few notes of the song before being scolded and pointed to a sign that says "NO Stairway To Heaven" (Wayne: "No Stairway. Denied."). Because of legal issues - apparently even a few notes of "Stairway To Heaven" have to be cleared, and good luck with that - the video and TV releases of the movie were changed so Wayne plays something incomprehensible. This novice guitar Stairway cliché later showed up on an episode of South Park when the character Towelie tries to play the song in a talent show and screws it up.
  • Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones decided not to use a bass on this because it sounded like a folk song. Instead, he added a string section, keyboards and flutes. He also played wooden recorders that were used on the intro. Bonham's drums do not come in until 4:18.
  • Robert Plant is a great admirer of all things mystic, the old English legends and lore and the writings of the Celts. He was immersed in the books Magic Arts in Celtic Britain by Lewis Spence and The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Tolkien inspiration can be heard in the phrase, "In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees," which could be a reference to the smoke rings blown by the wizard Gandalf. There is also a correlation between the lady in the song and the character from the book, Lady Galadriel, the Queen of Elves who lives in the golden forest of Lothlorien. In the book, all that glittered around her was in fact gold, as the leaves of the trees in the forest of Lothlorien were golden. (thanks, Shannon - Tacoma, WA)
  • Dolly Parton covered this on her 2002 album Halos and Horns, and Robert Plant said he liked her version. Other artists to cover this include U2, Jimmy Castor, Frank Zappa, The Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band, Sisters of Mercy, Nancy Wilson, Zakk Wylde , Elkie Brooks, Pardon Me Boys, White Flag, Jana, Great White, Stanley Jordan, Far Corporation, Dixie Power Trio, Justin Hayward, Leningrad Cowboys, Dread Zeppelin, Tiny Tim, piano virtuoso Richard Abel, and Monte Montgomery. Neil Sedaka had an unrelated Top 10 hit with the same title in 1960. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)
  • Many critics trashed this song when it came out: Lester Bangs described it as "a thicket of misbegotten mush, and the British music magazine Sounds said it induced "first boredom and then catatonia."
  • Led Zeppelin played this for the first time in Belfast on March 5, 1971 - Northern Ireland was a war zone at the time and there was rioting in nearby streets. John Paul Jones said in an audio documentary that when they played it, the audience was not that impressed. They wanted to hear something they knew - like "Whole Lotta Love."

    The song got a better reception when the band started the US leg of their tour. In an excerpt from Led Zeppelin; The Definitive Biography by Ritchie Yorke, Jimmy Page said of playing the song at an August, 1971 show at the Los Angeles Forum: "I'm not saying the whole audience gave us a standing ovation - but there was this sizable standing ovation there. And I thought, 'This is incredible because no one's heard this number yet. This is the first time hearing it!' It obviously touched them, so I knew there was something with that one." (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)
  • Jimmy Page considers this a masterpiece, but Robert Plant does not share his fondness for the song. Plant has referred to it as a "wedding song" and insists that his favorite Led Zeppelin song is "Kashmir." After the band broke up, Plant refused to sing it except on rare occasions, including Live Aid.
  • This was the last song the remaining members of Led Zeppelin performed when they reunited for Live Aid in 1985. Bob Geldof organized the event, and did his best to get many famous bands to play even if they had broken up. Unlike The Who, Geldof had an easy time convincing Plant, Page, and Jones to play the show. They played the Philadelphia stage with Tony Thompson and Phil Collins sitting in on drums.
  • The acoustic, fingerpicking intro is very similar to the song "Taurus" from the band Spirit, who toured with Led Zeppelin when they first played the US. Regarding the composition of the track, Jimmy Page told Rolling Stone: "I was trying things at home, shunting this piece up with that piece. I had the idea of the verses, the link into the solo and the last part. It was this idea of something that would keep building and building."

    Forty-three years after the song's original release, Francis Alexander Maloify, a lawyer for the trust of late Spirit guitarist Randy California, filed a plagiarism lawsuit. The intention was to block the release of the reissue of Led Zeppelin IV until California was given a co-writer credit and a portion of the profits.
  • Pat Boone released an unlikely cover on his album In a In a Metal Mood. Boone wanted to see how it would turn out as a jazz waltz, and it opened and closed the song with soft flute playing. In a subtle reference to his Christian faith, Boone changed the line "All in one is all and all" to "Three in one is all and all" - a reference to the Christian Trinity (the Father, Son, Holy Spirit).

    Another notable cover was by an Australian performer called Rolf Harris, who used a wobbleboard (piece of quite floppy wood, held at both sides, arched slightly and wobbled so the arch would continually invert) and changed the line "And it makes me wonder" to "Does it make you wonder." (thanks, Iain - Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • In the '90s, Australian TV host Andrew Denton had a show on which various artists were asked to perform their version of this song. Their versions were released on an album called The Money or the Gun: Stairways to Heaven. Artists performing it included Australian Doors Show, The Beatnix, Kate Ceberano and the Ministry of Fun, Robyne Dunn, Etcetera Theatre Company, The Fargone Beauties, Sandra Hahn and Michael Turkic, Rolf Harris, Pardon Me Boys, Neil Pepper, The Rock Lobsters, Leonard Teale, Toys Went Berserk, Vegimite Reggae, The Whipper Snappers, and John Paul Young. In reply to Rolf Harris' version, Page and Plant performed his song "Sun Arise" at the end of another Denton TV show. (thanks, Graham - Australia)
  • In January 1990, this song was added to the Muzak playlist in a solo harp version. Unlike the original, the Muzak version, arranged and recorded to provide an "uplifting, productive atmosphere" and "counteract the worker-fatigue curve in the office environment," did not do so well, as even this sanitized version drew a lot of attention to the song, thus undermining the intention of the Muzak programming. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • The band performed this at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in 1988 with Jason Bonham sitting in on drums for his late father. Plant did not want to play it, but was convinced at the last minute. It was sloppy and Plant forgot some of the words. This was not the case when Jason joined them again in 2007 for a benefit show to raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun education fund. They performed this song and 15 others, earning rave reviews from fans and critics.
  • Zeppelin's longest ever performance of this song was their last gig in Berlin in 1980. It clocked in around 15 minutes long. (thanks, Marshall - Gallatin, TN)
  • Gordon Roy of Wishaw, Scotland had all of the lyrics to this song tattooed on his back. He did it as a tribute to a friend who died in a car accident.
  • In the late '90s, the radio trade magazine Monday Morning Replay reported that "Stairway" was still played 4,203 times a year by the 67 largest AOR (album-oriented rock) radio stations in the US. ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, refuses to release exact figures on how many times it has been played since its release, but figure that on each AOR station in America, the song was played five times a day during its first three months of existence; twice a day for the next nine months; once a day for the next four years; and two to three times a week for the next 15 years. There are roughly 600 AOR and Classic Rock stations in the US, which means that "Stairway" has been broadcast a minimum of 2,874 times. At 8 minutes per spin, roughly 23 million minutes - almost 44 years - have been devoted to the song. So far.
  • On January 23, 1991, under the direction of owner and general manager John Sebastian, the radio station KLSK (104.1 FM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico played this song over and over for 24 hours, confounding listeners who weren't used to hearing Led Zeppelin on the station. The song played over 200 times, with many listeners tuning in to find out when it would end. It turned out to be publicity stunt, as the station was switching to a Classic Rock format.
  • Explaining his guitar setup for the solo, Jimmy Page told Guitar Player magazine in 1977: "I was using the Supro amp for the first album, and I still use it. The 'Stairway to Heaven' solo was done when I pulled out the Telecaster, which I hadn't used for a long time, plugged it into the Supro, and away it went again. That's a different sound entirely from the rest of the first album. It was a good, versatile setup."
  • The Foo Fighters did a mock cover of this song, and their version was to say that nobody should try to cover the song because they will screw it up. Dave Grohl intentionally carried the intro on way too long, asked his drummer and audience for lyrics, and when it came time for the guitar solo, he sang Jimmy Page's part. This was done purely as a joke, and to tell people not to cover the song, as Grohl is a huge Zeppelin fan, and lists Zeppelin's John Bonham as a major influence. (thanks, Bert - Pueblo, NM)
  • Rolling Stone magazine asked Jimmy Page how much of the guitar solo was composed before he recorded it. He replied: "It wasn't structured at all [laughs]. I had a start. I knew where and how I was going to begin. And I just did it. There was an amplifier [in the studio] that I was trying out. It sounded good, so I thought, "OK, take a deep breath, and play." I did three takes and chose one of them. They were all different. The solo sounds constructed - and it is, sort of, but purely of the moment. For me, a solo is something where you just fly, but within the context of the song."
  • Mary J. Blige recorded this in 2010 backed by Travis Barker, Randy Jackson, Steve Vai and Orianthi. Blige told MTV: "Once you get lost in the rock-and-roll moment of it, all you can do is scream to the top of your lungs or go as low as you need to go. It's not a head thing - it's a spirit thing." She added: "I am a Led Zeppelin fan. I've listened to their music since I was a child, and it's always moved me, especially 'Stairway To Heaven.' I make songs my own by going deep inside myself and translating them to 'what would Mary do.'" The song is included as a bonus track on the UK re-issue of her album Stronger With Each Tear and made available for download. Blige performed the song on the April 21, 2010 episode of American Idol. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • In solo work or with other groups, Jimmy Page would not let anyone but Robert Plant sing this, but he did play it as an instrumental on occasion.
  • The ending of this song is distinctive in that is closes out with just Robert Plant's voice. According to Jimmy Page, he wrote a guitar part to end the song, but decided to leave it off since the vocal at the end had such an impact.
  • Jimmy Page often called "In The Light" from Physical Graffiti a follow-up to this song.

  • Tesla Songs - Last Action Hero
    Tesla - Last Action Hero


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    Album: Last Action Hero
    Released: 1993

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  • Last Action Hero was a big-budget Arnold Schwarzenegger movie with very big soundtrack. Original songs by Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Megadeth and Cypress Hill all appeared in the film, but it was Tesla that was tapped to record the title track.

    The song was slated to appear in a climactic scene where the villain hurls an axe at Schwarzenegger, but the song was relegated to the end credits. In fact, once the credits start, the AC/DC song "Big Gun" plays, which is followed by the Tesla track. So, really the only people to hear it were the folks waiting to see who the best boy or key grips were on the film, and possibly some young couples looking for some time alone.
  • Tesla doesn't write on spec very often, so this song didn't follow their typical workflow. The band, minus lead singer Jeff Keith, came up with the musical idea and the backing vocal where they sing "Last action hero." They then brought it to their frontman.

    "I'd never been approached by the band with a background vocal already established as a chorus," Keith said in our interview . "So I kind of had my hands tied."
  • Five singles were released from the Last Action Hero soundtrack, but this wasn't one of them. The surprise hit was the Def Leppard ballad "Two Steps Behind."

  • Led Zeppelin Songs - Hats Off To (Roy) Harper
    Led Zeppelin - Hats Off To (Roy) Harper


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    Album: Led Zeppelin III
    Released: 1970

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  • Roy Harper is a folk singer from England who Jimmy Page met at the Bath Festival in 1970. He became friends with Page and Plant, who used him as the opening act on some Zeppelin tours. The song is a tribute to him.

    In 1971, Page played on Harper's album Stormcock, appearing in the credits as "S. Flavius Mercurius." In 1985, Page recorded an album with Harper called Whatever Happened To Jugula.
  • Explaining this track to Melody Maker before the album was released, Jimmy Page said: "This came about from a jam Robert and I had one night. There is a whole tape of us bashing different blues things. Robert had been playing harmonica through the amp, then he used it to sing through. It's supposed to be a sincere hats off to Roy because he's really a talented bloke, who's had a lot of problems."
  • Zeppelin never performed this live.
  • Roy Harper sang lead on Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar." He was friends with the band, and they asked him to sing this because Roger Waters' voice was shot.
  • This was listed on the album as "Arranged by Charles Obscure," which was a pseudonym for Page.
  • The music is based on a Blues song by Bukka White called "Shake 'Em On Down." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • Jimmy Page played slide guitar on this song. (thanks, Mat - Rock Cave, WV)

  • Counting Crows Songs - Hanging Tree
    Counting Crows - Hanging Tree


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    Album: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
    Released: 2008

    Hanging Tree Lyrics


    She brings her friends so we wont have to be alone
    Fear I might lose my composure without warning
    I am a child of fire I am a lion I have desires
    And I was born inside the sun this morning

    [Chorus]
    This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
    This dizzy life is just a Hanging Tree
    This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
    This dizzy life is just a hanging tree

    They say good evening when they don't know what to say
    They say good morning when they wish you would go home

    You open windows and you wait for someone warm to come inside and then freeze to death alone

    [Chorus]

    She calls a waitress when its time for her to go
    And I know everyone is eventually leaving
    I got a pair of wings for my birthday baby and I will fall down through the sun to see you mine

    [Chorus]

    For me, for me, for me [Repeated]

    This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
    This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me

    This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me
    For me, for me, for me [Repeated]

    This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me

    Writer/s: ADAM DURITZ, DANIEL VICKREY, CHARLES GILLINGHAM, JAMES BOGIOS, DAVID IMMERGLUCK, DAVID BRYSON, MILLARD POWERS
    Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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  • Written by frontman Adam Duritz and guitarist Dan Vickrey, this is the second track from the band's fifth studio album.
  • According to Duritz, the lyrics have a dual meaning: they both chronicle the angst that he felt after losing his grandmother, and they also describe the way that we all drift away from others on an everyday basis to the point where it no longer seems noticeable.
  • Just like several other songs on the same album, like "Sundays" and "Insignificant," the lyrics contain imagery pertaining to the Greek myth of Icarus: "I got a pair of wings for my birthday and I’ll fall down through the sun this evening," is just an example.
  • The discordant sound heard at the very end of the song was made by tossing a harmonica into some piano wires.
  • Duritz once said that he would have much rather have had either this or "When I Dream of Michelangelo" be the lead single off of the album, as they better represent the album thematically, as opposed to "You Can't Count On Me." (thanks, Alec Thorp - Yorktown Heights, NY, for above 4)

  • Led Zeppelin Songs - That's The Way
    Led Zeppelin - That's The Way


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    Album: Led Zeppelin III
    Released: 1970

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  • As pointed out in Stephen Davis's Hammer of the Gods, this song's lyrics reflected Robert Plant's views on ecology and environment. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)
  • Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote this in Wales on a retreat to the Bron-y-Aur cottage, where they wrote many of the songs on the album. They took a long walk with a guitar and tape recorder (yes, they carried a tape recorder on their hikes), sat down in a ravine, and wrote this.
  • One of the most mellow Zeppelin songs, it reflects the quiet countryside in Wales where it was written.
  • This was the first song Led Zeppelin authorized for use on a film soundtrack. After seeing a rough cut of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous in 2000, Page and Plant agreed to let him use some Zeppelin songs on it, but this is the only one that is on the soundtrack. Other Zeppelin songs in the movie are "Tangerine," "The Rain Song," "Bron-Y-Aur" and "Misty Mountain Hop."
  • The lyrics "I can't believe what people saying, you're gonna let your hair hang down, I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long, you're in the darker side of town" reflects the way Zeppelin was treated in their earlier days in America. In the south it was common for Zeppelin to receive death threats before concerts. When they walked into restaurants they were usually asked to leave, but not before being spit on or having a gun pointed at them for their long hair. (thanks, John - Boca Raton, FL)
  • The original title was "The Boy Next Door."
  • According to Robert Plant, this was written 30 minutes before Page's daughter Scarlet was conceived.

  • Eric Bellinger Songs - Focused On You
    Eric Bellinger - Focused On You


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    Album: Cuffin Season
    Released: 2014

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  • Los Angeles singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger is the grandson of Jackson 5 hit-making songwriter Bobby Day ("Rockin' Robin"). After signing with TWC Music Publishing/Sony ATV Music LLC in mid-2010, Bellinger penned a series of hit tunes for the likes of Chipmunk ("Champion"), Usher ("Lemme See"), Jennifer Hudson & Ne-Yo ("Think Like A Man") and Justin Bieber ("Right Here"). This is a single from his debut album, Cuffin Season.
  • Lyrically, the song sets up the album. Bellinger explained to Artist Direct : "The mixtape Choose Up Season was great. It was about the single life. It told the story of how it goes when you meet someone, you're just trying to have fun, and that lifestyle. 'Focused On You' is the transition. There's a whole lot of chicks everywhere, and I'm just focused on this one girl. That ties into the story for the album Cuffing Season. Everything's making sense. I'm putting together a little journey."
  • The song features a rapped contribution from 2 Chainz. Bellinger explained: "That day I was writing it, I was like, 'We really need to get 2 Chainz.' I knew his energy, and I knew what he'd bring to the record. I didn't have any connections with him. I didn't know him. It was just a thing that I just put out there. As we finished the song and started to reach out for a feature, he loved the song, and it just worked out from there."

  • Led Zeppelin Songs - Gallows Pole
    Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole


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    Album: Led Zeppelin III
    Released: 1970

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  • This is based on an old Blues song called "Gallis Pole," which was popularized by Leadbelly. The song is considered "Traditional," meaning the author is unknown. Jimmy Page got the idea for this after hearing the version by the California folk singer Fred Gerlach. Page explained when previewing the song for Melody Maker: "He was one of the first white people on Folkways records to get involved in Leadbelly. We have completely rearranged it and changed the verse. Robert wrote a set of new lyrics. That's John Paul Jones on mandolin and bass, and I'm playing the banjo, six-string acoustic, 12-string and electric guitar. The bloke swinging on the gallows pole is saying wait for his relatives to arrive. The drumming builds nicely." (thanks, Jason Lee - New York, NY)
  • The lyrics are about a man trying to delay his hanging until his friends and family can rescue him. Although there are many versions of this song, Led Zeppelin's is unusual in that it ends with the hangman hanging the protagonist despite all of his bribes. Most other versions end with the hangman setting the protagonist free. (thanks, Alex - Melbourne, FL)
  • A similar folk song called "Slack Your Rope" was sung by an Arkansan named Jimmie Driftwood. He adapted the words from a fifteenth century British Ballad when any crime could be paid off with money right up to the last step of the gallows. In his version, the criminal is definitely a woman and her lover rides up and pays her fee. (thanks, Lalah - Wasilla, AK)
  • This is the only Led Zeppelin song that features a banjo. Jimmy Page wrote it on a banjo he borrowed from John Paul Jones. He had never played the banjo before.
  • Jimmy Page and Robert Plant teamed up again to record this song for an MTV Unplugged set. It's featured on the The Very Best of MTV Unplugged album and the duo are listed simply as Page and Plant. (thanks, Dave - Canberra, Australia)
  • Jimmy Page has claimed this as his favorite song on Led Zeppelin III.
  • The band used some lyrics from this song on their 1975 track "Trampled Underfoot."
  • This is a rare Led Zeppelin song that speeds up as it goes along, a technique Jimmy Page also used on "Stairway To Heaven." (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)
  • In 1994, Page and Plant re-recorded this in Wales for their album No Quarter. On that version, Page played a hurdy-gurdy, an odd instrument resembling an organ grinder that sounds like a bagpipe.
  • This was performed only two or three times live in concert, in an electric-only version. However, a few verses of the song (especially the final one) were sometimes included in some medleys (for instance in "Communication Breakdown," or "Trampled Underfoot"). (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

  • Halestorm Songs - Rose In December
    Halestorm - Rose In December


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    Album: Breaking the Silence
    Released: 2001

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  • This song helped Halestorm fund their traveling to gigs in their early days. Lzzy Hale recalled to Kerrang!: "I'm going to go back to the tip jar days, when we used to play bars and have a tip jar that would help pay for our gas. This was a ballad, very cheesy, which was written when I was about 17 years old and listening to a lot of Journey. Whenever we played the song, people would come up and put money in the tip jar – we had a good $250 in there!"

  • Led Zeppelin Songs - Since I've Been Loving You
    Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You


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    Album: Led Zeppelin III
    Released: 1970

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  • A seven-and-a-half minute Blues number with some electric piano played by Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones, this was a live favorite for the band. They started working on the song during the sessions for Led Zeppelin II, but was bumped for "Whole Lotta Love." By the time they recorded it for Led Zeppelin III, they had worked out the song in live performances, but according to Jimmy Page, it was still the hardest track to record for the album. The guitarist says they were getting very self-critical around this time.
  • Before this song was committed to tape, Led Zeppelin performed it at their famous January 9, 1970 concert at Royal Albert Hall in London. The show was filmed and recorded, but the keyboards didn't make it into the mix on this track, so the song was not included on the 2003 DVD Led Zeppelin, which featured footage from the show.
  • This is a very difficult song to sing, and it showed off Robert Plant's vocal range quite well. He said in a 2003 interview with Mojo: "The musical progression at the end of each verse - the chord choice - is not a natural place to go. And it's that lift up there that's so regal and so emotional. I don't know whether that was born from the loins of JP or JPJ, but I know that when we reached that point in the song you could get a lump in the throat from being in the middle of it."
  • This was recorded live in the studio with very little overdubbing. If you listen carefully, you can hear the squeak of John Bonham's drum pedal.
  • Jimmy Page did his guitar solo in one take. Engineer Terry Manning called it "The best rock guitar solo of all time."
  • Plant used a sample from this on his solo track "White, Clean, and Neat."
  • Just before their Physical Grafitti tour, Jimmy Page broke the tip of his left ring finger in a door-slamming incident. They went on with the tour but they had to drop this and "Dazed And Confused" from the set lists as he couldn't play them until his finger healed. (thanks, julian - Boston, MA)
  • The riff in the beginning is taken from "New York City Blues" by The Yardbirds - Jimmy Page was not a member of that band yet when the group wrote that song.
  • The track was recorded live (except for the vocals part and a few overdubs) at Island Studios in London. This features John Paul Jones on both bass pedal and organ. Interestingly, Jimmy Page's famous solo was recorded in a studio in Memphis, whereas the whole album was recorded in Headley Grange and in Island Studios. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

  • Hoodie Allen Songs - All About It
    Hoodie Allen - All About It


    Hoodie Allen - All About It Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: People Keep Talking
    Released: 2014

    All About It Lyrics


    Oh, oh
    Said I'm All About It

    'Cause I got soul and I won't quit
    And your dad don't like it when I talk my shit
    'Cause I'm all about it baby
    I'm all about it baby
    Staying up late just to pass the time
    And your parents don’t like it when you out getting high
    But I'm all about it baby
    I'm all about it baby, hmm

    I'm not a rapper just a singer with a game plan
    I play guitar no need to worry 'bout my Drake hand
    80,000 People in front of the stage, damn
    Waiting for the sun to shine just to rock these Ray Bans
    I just wanna leak shit (what?)
    Not literally leak shit
    Wanna push the music through the speakers
    Double shot glass, I'm in the back of the pub
    My mate Jason at the bar screaming "Who want what?"
    Now, please be warned, that every song I feature on
    Has capacity to be reborn
    I said that anything can happen when I pick up a pen
    But now I'm all about love so won't you say it again
    I said I used to be the shy type
    Backpack on my back on public transport sort of guy type
    Now I'm in the lime light
    Tryna get my mind right
    Body clock is in the clouds so often guess it's high time
    Hoodie sing the line like

    I got soul and I won't quit
    And your dad don't like it when I talk my shit
    'Cause I'm all about it baby
    I'm all about it baby
    Staying up late just to pass the time
    And your parents don’t like it when you out getting high
    But I'm all about it baby
    I'm all about it baby

    I'm not a singer, I just rap pretty
    So now my fan base is full of Megan's and Ashley's
    And they're wondering if there's room for them to get in my bus
    And I'm like, "Naturally, baby, let me find a spot in the front"
    For you, and for your friends
    You can be mine, but we can pretend, oh
    Typical rapper actin' a typical fashion
    I'm doing something that's different
    I'm tryin' to Paula my patent young
    Prince of Manhattan, now everybody believe it
    Adrien Broner the way I'm ducking and weaving
    We go together like interceptions and Revis
    She said the only rapper she lovin' is Yeezus
    One for the money, two people since the beginning
    Three million records get sold, and not everybody is winning I'm
    Larry David plus Miles Davis
    So everybody hating and fuck it, I hardly blame 'em

    'Cause I got soul and I won't quit
    And your dad don't like it when I talk my shit
    'Cause I'm all about it baby
    I'm all about it baby
    Staying up late just to pass the time
    And your parents don’t like it when you out getting high
    But I'm all about it baby
    I'm all about it baby

    And they don't know anything about us
    Or anything about us
    Or anything about it
    No, no, no

    And they don't know anything about us
    Or anything about us
    Or anything about it
    No, no, no

    Oh, oh

    I'm singin songs for the city

    Oh
    Ooh yeah

    Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / MARKOWITZ, STEVEN / WARRINGTON, PARRISH ALAN / MCDOUGLE, DYLAN / FERGUSON, REGINALD JAMES
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    All About It Song Chart
  • Former University of Pennsylvania student Hoodie Allen graduated in 2010 with a degree in marketing and finance. Employed by Google as an AdWords associate, he spent his evenings penning songs and sharing his music via YouTube. The music took off, and as websites began featuring Allen's songs he decided to quit his job with the tech powerhouse to follow his dream.

    On April 10, 2012, Allen's debut EP All American was released. The record sold in its first week and debuted at #10 on the US album chart.
  • This track from his debut studio album People Keep Talking, features Ed Sheeran. Allen told Billboard magazine about the collaboration with the British star. "I've known Ed for a really long time," he said. "We've always been buddies and every time he's in New York we hang out."

    "We'd never made music before and he said, 'Hey, why don't you go in the studio.' So we got to go to the studio one night and knocked out that song," Allen continued. "We finished the whole song in four hours. And eight months later after tweaking the beat nonstop, we had the final version and we knew it was going to make the album."

  • Led Zeppelin Songs - Friends
    Led Zeppelin - Friends


    Led Zeppelin - Friends Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Led Zeppelin III
    Released: 1970

    Friends Lyrics


    Friends Song Chart
  • 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)

  • Kip Moore Songs - I'm to Blame
    Kip Moore - I'm to Blame


    Kip Moore - I'm to Blame Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Wild Ones
    Released: 2015

    I'm to Blame Lyrics


    If it ain’t broke, you can bet that I’m gonna break it
    If there’s a wrong road, I’m damn sure gonna take it
    Where there’s smoke, my pocket lighter sparked the fire
    Where there’s blue lights, just read me my rights

    No, they don’t make guys like me, you get exactly what you see
    I come from a long line of bloodline that ain’t gonna change
    So, take your pistol pointing finger right off of the trigger
    I know where to aim, hell, I’m to blame

    Where there’s a love, I tell ya, girl, I love to hate it
    Where there’s a do not touch, my finger print done stained it
    Where there’s a train wreck, sit on back and watch me crash
    Where there’s a what, you say, damn right I said it

    No, they don’t make guys like me, you get exactly what you see
    I come from a long line of bloodline that ain’t gonna change
    So, take your pistol pointing finger right off of the trigger
    I know where to aim, hell, I’m to blame

    For breaking your heart, taking this living a little too hard
    Drinking too much and playing too loud, where there’s a scar I carved it out

    No, they don’t make guys like me, you get exactly what you see
    I come from a long line of bloodline that ain’t gonna change
    So, take your pistol pointing finger right off of the trigger
    I know where to aim, hell, I’m to blame

    I know where to aim, hell, I’m to blame

    Writer/s: MOORE, KIP / WEAVER, JUSTIN MICHAEL / DAVIS, WESTIN
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • This song serves as a mini-biography for Moore as the singer looks back and learns from past mistakes. He penned the tune with Justin Weaver, who penned co-wrote three tracks on Dustin Lynch's eponymous debut album and Westin Davis, who regularly writes with Thompson Square's Keifer Thompson.
  • Moore had been playing the song on tour for a few years before releasing it as a single in January 2015. During a 2013 interview with CMT, the singer said the track is "going to make people trip out and laugh and it's going to be a rowdy time."
  • This was released as the third single from Kip Moore's sophomore album. The honest lyrics are personal for the singer. "I've learned that sometimes when you're in a relationship, especially if you're trying to keep the relationship, it's better just to admit that something was your fault so everybody can move on," he said. "I thought that sort of truth-telling was a good way to set the tone for the new album."
  • The song finds Moore owning up to who he is and not apologizing for it. "Today in such a politically correct society, we really wanted to write a song about not apologizing about who we are and not scared to speak our mind kind of people, and we wanted to write a song around that whole kind of thing," he said. "And that's what it is – it's a very aggressive, intense, no apologies kind of song about the kind of person you are, and it's not about being rude. You're owning who you are as an individual, and that's what the song is."
  • This song reflects Moore's insistence on doing things his way for his second album. "After the success of the first record I had a lot of people trying to steer me in a certain direction," he said. "This was my way of saying, 'Everybody back up for a second, I'm going to do things this way.' I think that fans can get fooled for a while, but if you're not honest about what you're writing they're not going to fall for it for long."
  • Kip Moore told Radio.com it was Westin Davis who came up with the song's first line: "If it ain't broke, you can bet that I'm gonna break it."

    "I just looked at him and grinned," he recalled. "I was already singing the melody. When he said that line it just kickstarted the whole thing. We ran with that whole song really fast."
  • Filmed in Tennessee, the Peter Zavadil directed video starts with two tux-laden guys, who turn out to be a groom about to tie the knot and his friend. We learn that the groom's marriage looks doomed from the start. The video cuts to the wedding ceremony where Kip Moore and his band are playing. They're all wearing light blue suits that are clearly from a few decades earlier.

    Moore came up with the concept himself, and it all began with the tuxedos. "I was picturing those terrible, powder-blue, old-school tuxedos. The idea started there, and we really wanted to have some fun with it," he said. "I try not to take myself too seriously all the time!"
  • Kip Moore told Billboard magazine that he was moved to write the track as a result of being peeved off one day. "I was frustrated with some things in my career and my personal life," he said. "I had just got done watching people having this political debate on TV and they were pointing the finger at each other. I thought 'Where did our backbone go in this society?' I came into it with that mindset."
  • The song originated after Kip Moore had been watching TV. "I'd been listening to the night before to some people on TV, there was some stuff going on politically, and everybody's throwing everybody under the bus. No one wants to shield any of the blame. I've never been that guy, man," he recalled. "I kinda came in like just that day just kinda angry about all that. Just feeling like we're all losing our spine. Where have the men gone kinda thing that day."

    "My thing is I'm not looking for the wrong road, but I've always been kinda fearless in my approach. I'm not scared to step out and try something, and there's a good chance that I'm gonna take the wrong step first, but that'll lead me to the right step, and that's kinda what I meant," Moore continued. "I'm not gonna intentionally do things to mess up, but when I do, I'm not gonna try to put it off on somebody else. I'll be the first to say, 'Look I did it. Let's move on from this. I'm sorry about it.' So, that's kinda how the whole concept of it started."

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