LED ZEPPELIN - BLACK DOG

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BLACK DOG

LED ZEPPELIN
(ROCK BAND)
SONGWRITERS: JIMMY PAGE/JOHN PAUL JONES/ROBERT PLANT
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: LED ZEPPELIN IV
LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS
GENRE: HARD ROCK
YEAR: 1971 

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of vocalista Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are regularly cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, although their style drew from a variety of influences, including blues and folk music. The band have been credited with majorly impacting the nature of the music industry, particularly in the development of album-orientated rock (AOR) and stadium rock. Many critics consider Led Zeppelin one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history.
     After changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Although the group were initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with eight studio albums released over ten years, from Led Zeppelin (1969) to In Through the Out Door (1979). Their untitled fourth studio album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV (1971), became one of the best-selling albums in history. It featured the song "Stairway to Heaven", which has come to be among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and helped to secure the group's popularity.
       Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin's music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones's keyboard-based compositions later became central to the group's catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, their output and touring schedule were limited during the late 1970s, and the group disbanded following Bonham's death from alcohol-related asphyxia in 1980. In the decades that followed, the former members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, with Bonham's son Jason Bonham on drums.
              Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists of all time; various sources estimate the group's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the third-best-selling band and fifth-best-selling act in the US. They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums, and each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and six reached the number-one spot. Rolling Stone magazine described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the Seventies", and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum's biography of the band states that they were "as influential" during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s.
              "Black Dog" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, the opening track on their fourth album (1971). The song was released as a single and reached the charts in several countries; however, as was their practice, it was not issued in the United Kingdom. The song was included in Rolling Stone's (US) "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and ranked No. 1 in Q magazine's (UK) "20 Greatest Guitar Tracks".
          "Black Dog" is built around a call and response dynamic between the vocalist and band, with its start and stop a cappella verses inspired by Fleetwood Mac's 1969 song "Oh Well", according to biographer Dave Lewis. The title is a reference to a nameless black Labrador Retriever that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during recording.
                 John Paul Jones, who is credited with writing the main riff, was inspired by Muddy Waters' controversial 1968 album Electric Mud. He added a winding riff and complex rhythm changes, that biographer Keith Shadwick describes as a "clever pattern that turns back on itself more than once, crossing between time signatures as it does." The group had a difficult time with the turnaround, but John Bonham's solution was to play it straight through as if there was no turnaround. In live performances, Bonham eliminated the variation so that Plant could perform his a cappella vocal interludes and then have the instruments return at the proper time. For his guitar parts, Page used a Gibson Les Paul to record multiple overdubs.

Hey, hey, mama
Said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat
Gonna make you groove

Oh, oh, child
Way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn
Gonna make you Sting

Hey, hey, baby
When you walk that way
Watch your honey drip
Can't keep away

Oh yeah, oh yeah
Ah, ah, ah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Ah, ah, ah

I gotta roll, can't stand still
Got a flame in heart, can't get my fill
Eyes that shine burning red
Dreams of you all through my head

Hey, baby, oh, baby, pretty baby
Tell me what you do me now
Hey, baby, oh, baby, pretty baby
Tell me what you do me now

Didn't take too long before I found out
What people mean, my down and out
Spent my MONEY, took my car
Started telling her friends she gonna be a star
I don't know, but I've been told
A big legged woman ain't got no soul

Oh yeah, oh yeah
Ah, ah, ah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Ah, ah, ah

All I ask for when I pray
Steady rolling woman won't come my way
Need a woman gonna hold my hand
Tell me no lies, make me a happy man

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