Led Zeppelin: “Whole Lotta Love” for the BBC

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“Whole Lotta Love”, recorded by Led Zeppelin at Maida Vale Studios in London for the show Radio 1 BBC, notably with “communication breakdown”, reigns at the top of the group's best titles, according to WECB

The song that defines Led Zeppelin – obscene, brutal and brilliant.“Basically meCouine Robert Plant, I will give you every centimeter of my love ”– adding “I want to be the one who goes from behind!” For more romanticism. His post-verbal song is even dirty, especially when he starts to say “Love” And give everything, in a black echo hole. (This ghostly song was a happy accident, the result of the intrusion of an unused vocal track that Jimmy Page Cona.)

Years later, Plant admitted his debt to “You Need Love” from Bluesman Willie Dixon (which won his trial); “I said to myself, 'what am I going to sing?' It was a flight. But “Whole Lotta Love”recorded at the London Olympic Studios and mixed in New York, was not just a remake. The bridge hovered, tornado of orgasmic groaning, tickling on cymbals and preliminaries in Thérémine, magnified by stereo. The page riff – metal bottleneck and increased by an echo – is one of the most brutal to get out of a les Paul, and John Paul Jones and John Bonham should note for note. “” In generalsaid page, my riffs are quite original. What else can I say? »»

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