LED ZEPPELIN - WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

LED ZEPPELIN

SONGWRITERS: ROBERT PLANT; JOHN PAUL JONES; JOHN BONHAM & JIMMY PAGE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LED ZEPPELIN II

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 1969

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.

"Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English hard rock band Led Zeppelin. It is the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the United States, several countries in Europe, and Japan as a single; as with other Led Zeppelin songs, no single was released in the United Kingdom. The US release became their first hit single, being certified Gold on 13 April 1970, having sold one million copies. It reached number one in Australia and Germany and number four in the Netherlands and the United States. Parts of the song were adapted from Willie Dixon's "You Need Love", recorded by Muddy Waters in 1962; originally uncredited to Dixon, a lawsuit in 1985 was settled with a payment to Dixon and credit on subsequent releases.

In 2004, the song was ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in March 2005, Q magazine placed "Whole Lotta Love" at number three in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. It was placed 11 on a similar list by Rolling Stone. In 2009 it was named the third greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. In 2014, listeners to BBC Radio 2 voted "Whole Lotta Love" as containing the greatest guitar riff of all time.

You need cooling

Baby, I'm not fooling

I'm gonna send, yeah

You back to schooling

Way down inside

Honey, you need it

I'm gonna give you my love

I'm gonna give you my love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

You've been learning

Baby, I been learning

All that good times

Baby, baby, I've been yearning

Way, way down inside

Honey, you need it

I'm gonna give you my love

I'm gonna give you my love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

You've been cooling

Baby, I've been drooling

All the good times

Baby, I've been misusing

Way, way down inside

I'm gonna give you my love

I'm gonna give you

Every inch of my love, gonna give you my love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Way down inside

Woman you need love

Shake for me, girl

I wanna be your backdoor man

Keep it cooling, baby

Keep it cooling, baby

Keep it cooling, baby

Keep it cooling, baby.