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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.


135-Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love.


1969-It was never originally released as a single in the UK until 1997 when a 4:50 edit was issued to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary, and then it reached Number 21.


Best Bit At-0.01. A cover version by the Rock group ‘C.C.S.’ was used by the BBC’s flagship music programme ‘Top of the Pops’ between 1970-1977, and again from 1998-2003. The song would play over the opening titles as that weeks current top 40 chart singles rundown was shown, which is ironic because Led Zeppelin refused to release singles in the UK.


Led Zeppelin (see also best songs 66) were formed in London, England, in 1968 by Robert Plant, (lead vocals) Jimmy Page, (guitars) John Paul Jones, (bass and keyboards) and John Bonham, (1948-1980) (drums) with records sold said to be anywhere between 200 to 300 million, Led Zeppelin are one of the very best selling acts of all time. The band split after the death of John Bonham in 1980 after releasing eight studio Albums between 1969-1979. In America where their singles were issued, six of their 19 releases made the Billboard Hot 100 top 40, with this song being the highest charting when reaching Number 4.


‘Whole Lotta Love’ is the opening track from Led Zeppelin’s second studio Album ‘Led Zeppelin 2’ from 1969, the song is the Albums opening track, and was the only single released from the Album. ‘Whole Lotta Love’ along with the Album was produced by Jimmy Page, with the songwriting credits for ‘Whole Lotta Love’ attributed to all four band members. The songs lyrics were provided by Robert Plant, but in 1985 the American Blues artist Willie Dixon (1915-1992) took Led Zeppelin to court claiming that Plant had used some of his lyrics from his song ‘You Need Love’ without permission. ‘You need Love’ was recorded in 1962 by Muddy Waters, (see also best songs 596) and covered by the Small Faces (see also best songs 1048 and 872) as ‘You Need Loving’ in 1966. Plant knew of the Small Faces recording, and in court Dixon won the case receiving back dated royalties, and having his name added to the song writing credits. ‘Whole Lotta Love’ had started out life as a guitar riff written by Jimmy Page, the riff is considered by music critics to be amongst the best of all time, Robert Plant has said,’Page’s riff was Page’s riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, ‘well, what am I going to sing?’ That was it, a nick, now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that … well, you only get caught when you’re successful. That’s the game.


‘Whole Lotta Love’ is also credited for it’s ground breaking production techniques that would influence future generations. John Paul Jones has said the Jimmy Page began coming into his own as a producer around the time of the making this song, Jones has said,’The backwards echo stuff. A lot of the microphone techniques were just inspired. Using distance-miking… and small amplifiers. Everybody thinks we go in the studio with huge walls of amplifiers, but he doesn’t. He uses a really small amplifier and he just mikes it up really well, so that it fits into a sonic picture.’


‘You need cooling, baby I’m not fooling. I’m gonna send ya back to schooling. Way down inside a-honey you need it. I’m gonna give you my love, I’m gonna give you my love, yeah.’