1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,350 ["Good Times Bad Times" by Led Zeppelin playing] 4 00:00:31,690 --> 00:00:33,966 ♪ In the days of my youth 5 00:00:33,990 --> 00:00:38,370 ♪ I was told what it means to be a man ♪ 6 00:00:42,580 --> 00:00:44,080 ♪ Now I've reached that age 7 00:00:44,210 --> 00:00:48,710 ♪ I've tried to do all those things the best I can ♪ 8 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,680 ♪ No matter how I try 9 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,850 ♪ I find my way into the same old jam ♪ 10 00:01:03,270 --> 00:01:05,416 ♪ Good times, bad times 11 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,706 ♪ You know I've had my share ♪ 12 00:01:07,730 --> 00:01:09,230 ♪ When my woman left home ♪ 13 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:10,480 ♪ For a brown-eyed man ♪ 14 00:01:10,610 --> 00:01:13,780 ♪ Well, I still don't seem to care ♪ 15 00:01:20,870 --> 00:01:24,120 ♪ I know what it means to be alone ♪ 16 00:01:25,870 --> 00:01:29,540 ♪ I sure do wish I was at home ♪ 17 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,720 ♪ I don't care what the neighbors say ♪ 18 00:01:36,090 --> 00:01:40,550 ♪ I'm gonna love you each and every day ♪ 19 00:01:43,060 --> 00:01:47,060 ♪ You can feel the beat within my heart ♪ 20 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,440 ♪ Realize, sweet babe 21 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,506 ♪ We ain't ever gonna part ♪ 22 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:55,280 [Jimmy Page] As a kid in England, 23 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,700 we were living in the shadows of the Second World War. 24 00:01:58,780 --> 00:02:00,410 Your parents and your grandparents 25 00:02:00,530 --> 00:02:02,280 had been through two World Wars. 26 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:04,910 {\an8}And at the end of the Second World War, 27 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,670 {\an8}there was this great feeling of hope towards the future. 28 00:02:09,250 --> 00:02:10,436 [John Paul Jones] In London, 29 00:02:10,460 --> 00:02:12,630 there was lots of damaged buildings 30 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,300 and craters and... [chuckles] 31 00:02:14,380 --> 00:02:16,420 I mean, it was an apres war zone. 32 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,180 {\an8}There was rationing still. I remember... 33 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,720 {\an8}getting eggs and milk and butter and stuff 34 00:02:22,810 --> 00:02:25,140 {\an8}with a little book with coupons. 35 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,350 People were recovering. 36 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,230 [Robert Plant] Outside of London, 37 00:02:29,310 --> 00:02:30,600 in the West Midlands, 38 00:02:30,690 --> 00:02:34,166 it was a post-war, sort of semi-suburban 39 00:02:34,190 --> 00:02:35,530 quiet life. 40 00:02:36,530 --> 00:02:38,200 {\an8}So America was my dream... 41 00:02:38,650 --> 00:02:40,410 because it was a totally different world 42 00:02:40,490 --> 00:02:41,780 to the one that we were in. 43 00:02:41,950 --> 00:02:44,950 ["Train Kept A-Rollin'" by the Johnny Burnette Trio] 44 00:02:47,330 --> 00:02:48,346 ♪ I caught a train 45 00:02:48,370 --> 00:02:49,686 ♪ I met a dame ♪ 46 00:02:49,710 --> 00:02:50,856 ♪ She was a hepster ♪ 47 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,630 ♪ And a real gone dame ♪ 48 00:02:52,710 --> 00:02:54,000 ♪ She was pretty ♪ 49 00:02:54,130 --> 00:02:55,526 ♪ From New York City ♪ 50 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:58,486 ♪ And we trucked on down that old fair lane ♪ 51 00:02:58,510 --> 00:03:00,890 ♪ With a heave and a ho ♪ 52 00:03:01,430 --> 00:03:04,220 ♪ Well, I just couldn't let her go ♪ 53 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:05,470 ♪ Oh ♪ 54 00:03:06,140 --> 00:03:07,140 ♪ Yeah ♪ 55 00:03:08,060 --> 00:03:09,060 {\an8}♪ Hey 56 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:11,730 {\an8}♪ Oh ♪ 57 00:03:12,230 --> 00:03:13,610 ♪ Hup 58 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:17,740 ♪ Giddyap, oh! 59 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:24,506 ♪ Get along ♪ 60 00:03:24,530 --> 00:03:26,620 I was listening to this marvelous rock and roll 61 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:28,500 coming in from America. 62 00:03:28,910 --> 00:03:30,660 You're hearing all this electric guitar. 63 00:03:30,790 --> 00:03:33,556 I mean, it was almost like it was coming from Mars, 64 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:35,420 even though it was coming from Memphis. 65 00:03:35,540 --> 00:03:36,590 {\an8}But here in Britain, 66 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,420 {\an8}we were stuck with these musicians 67 00:03:39,550 --> 00:03:41,026 who were really safe 68 00:03:41,050 --> 00:03:45,366 until this force of nature called Lonnie Donegan arrived. 69 00:03:45,390 --> 00:03:47,100 ♪ When you play the game of life ♪ 70 00:03:47,180 --> 00:03:49,076 ♪ You've got trouble You've got strife ♪ 71 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:52,190 {\an8}♪ Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find ♪ 72 00:03:52,730 --> 00:03:54,520 {\an8}♪ Life is like a game of cards ♪ 73 00:03:54,650 --> 00:03:56,150 {\an8}♪ But it's very, very hard ♪ 74 00:03:56,270 --> 00:03:59,900 {\an8}♪ Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find ♪ 75 00:04:00,740 --> 00:04:02,280 ♪ Jack o' diamonds ♪ 76 00:04:02,450 --> 00:04:03,780 ♪ Jack o' diamonds ♪ 77 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:07,200 ♪ Diamonds is a hard card to find ♪ 78 00:04:07,740 --> 00:04:09,410 ♪ Jack o' diamonds ♪ 79 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:10,790 ♪ Jack o' diamonds ♪ 80 00:04:10,910 --> 00:04:13,920 ♪ Diamonds is a hard card to find ♪ 81 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,290 [Page] I was so mesmerized 82 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:18,710 by having seen Lonnie Donegan play. 83 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:20,460 It was like a portal. 84 00:04:20,550 --> 00:04:22,470 It gave some access 85 00:04:22,590 --> 00:04:26,300 to the sort of freedom that you hadn't witnessed in England. 86 00:04:26,430 --> 00:04:27,430 ♪ A hard card to find ♪ 87 00:04:27,470 --> 00:04:28,560 Give it up, Jimmy! 88 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,810 [rocking, funky guitar solo playing] 89 00:04:34,810 --> 00:04:38,400 So, one day I come to school and I see... 90 00:04:39,150 --> 00:04:41,150 this fellow standing up in the field 91 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,070 {\an8}with lots of people around him. 92 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,756 {\an8}His name was Rod Wyatt, 93 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:47,466 {\an8}and he's playing the Lonnie Donegan songs 94 00:04:47,490 --> 00:04:49,080 {\an8}on an acoustic guitar. 95 00:04:49,620 --> 00:04:51,450 {\an8}So I went up to him and said, 96 00:04:51,580 --> 00:04:53,410 {\an8}"I've got one of those at home." 97 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,670 And he said, "Bring it along. I'll show you how to tune it." 98 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:58,436 And then... 99 00:04:58,460 --> 00:05:00,300 he showed me some chords as well. 100 00:05:01,170 --> 00:05:04,316 {\an8}♪ Well, Mama don't allow no skiffle around here ♪ 101 00:05:04,340 --> 00:05:05,930 ♪ Oh no, she don't ♪ 102 00:05:06,010 --> 00:05:09,140 ♪ Mama don't allow no skiffle around in here ♪ 103 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:11,970 {\an8}♪ Well, we don't care what mama don't allow ♪ 104 00:05:12,140 --> 00:05:14,270 {\an8}♪ Gonna play that skiffle any-old-how ♪ 105 00:05:14,350 --> 00:05:17,440 {\an8}♪ Mama don't allow no skiffle around in here ♪ 106 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,546 ♪ Well, mama don't allow no guitar playing in here ♪ 107 00:05:21,570 --> 00:05:23,030 ♪ Oh no, she don't ♪ 108 00:05:23,110 --> 00:05:26,030 ♪ Well, mama don't allow no guitar playing in here ♪ 109 00:05:26,950 --> 00:05:29,070 ♪ Well, we don't care what mama don't allow ♪ 110 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,176 ♪ Gonna play that guitar any-old-how ♪ 111 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,370 ♪ Mama don't allow no guitar playing in here ♪ 112 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:36,670 [jaunty guitar melody playing] 113 00:05:38,170 --> 00:05:40,840 [Page]I was absolutely inseparable from the guitar. 114 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,686 I'd play it before breakfast 115 00:05:42,710 --> 00:05:44,670 and then play it on the way to school. 116 00:05:45,010 --> 00:05:46,550 I'd go there and want to practice, 117 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,680 but it would be confiscated 118 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,720 and, uh, given back at the end of the day. 119 00:05:52,350 --> 00:05:54,390 ♪ Gonna play that guitar any-old-how ♪ 120 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,520 ♪ Mama don't allow no guitar playing in here ♪ 121 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,536 {\an8}[Page] My father was like, 122 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:00,860 {\an8}"Well, I don't really understand 123 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:03,320 {\an8}all this guitar business, but... 124 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,690 {\an8}I'm with you on it, 125 00:06:04,780 --> 00:06:06,900 {\an8}providing you keep all your schoolwork up." 126 00:06:07,030 --> 00:06:09,160 {\an8}But my mum was really supportive to the idea 127 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,200 of me carrying on and starting in a group and... 128 00:06:12,330 --> 00:06:13,740 she really believed in me. 129 00:06:13,870 --> 00:06:15,750 I mean, it was really a big deal. 130 00:06:16,330 --> 00:06:20,710 {\an8}["I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" playing] 131 00:06:20,830 --> 00:06:22,630 {\an8}[Jones]My parents were in vaudeville. 132 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:25,960 {\an8}Mum was the straight singer in the evening gown... 133 00:06:26,050 --> 00:06:27,856 {\an8}and my father was a comedian. 134 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,340 {\an8}He would play the piano. 135 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,680 And so I used to travel around with them 136 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:33,890 to all the bases, 137 00:06:34,010 --> 00:06:35,576 where they'd entertain the troops. 138 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,850 And there would be just one international act after another. 139 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:41,900 Accordion players and banjo players. 140 00:06:42,060 --> 00:06:43,520 I took all this in. 141 00:06:43,610 --> 00:06:46,440 [song continues] 142 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,580 {\an8}[Jones]So I was from that musical tradition. 143 00:06:57,910 --> 00:06:59,596 {\an8}And it was all the basis 144 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:01,630 for everything I ever did afterwards. 145 00:07:01,750 --> 00:07:03,210 [song fades out] 146 00:07:04,380 --> 00:07:05,920 [birds chirping] 147 00:07:06,090 --> 00:07:07,920 {\an8}[Plant] I grew up in the West Midlands. 148 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:10,760 {\an8}My father's bloodline is from there, 149 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,566 {\an8}and my mother's side of the family 150 00:07:12,590 --> 00:07:14,260 are Romani Gypsy. 151 00:07:15,010 --> 00:07:17,020 My childhood was very sheltered... 152 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,076 {\an8}until my parents sent me to a big school 153 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:21,100 {\an8}in a big town. 154 00:07:21,270 --> 00:07:23,360 {\an8}Studied to be a chartered accountant. 155 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,836 {\an8}I mean, I'd really dug a lot of what was going on at school, 156 00:07:27,860 --> 00:07:29,190 but when Little Richard appeared, 157 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,610 it was so provocative and all-consuming 158 00:07:32,740 --> 00:07:34,120 and, uh, hypnotic 159 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:37,490 that it kinda knocked everything else out of the water. 160 00:07:37,620 --> 00:07:40,500 {\an8}♪ Well, I saw Uncle John with bald-head Sally ♪ 161 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:43,330 {\an8}♪ He saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley ♪ 162 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:44,420 {\an8}♪ Oh, baby ♪ 163 00:07:44,590 --> 00:07:46,960 ♪ Yes, baby ♪ 164 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:49,840 ♪ Woo, baby 165 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:52,010 ♪ Having me some fun tonight... ♪ 166 00:07:52,130 --> 00:07:55,100 I knew then that all I wanted to do was sing. 167 00:07:55,180 --> 00:07:57,140 ♪ Well, long tall Sally She's built for speed ♪ 168 00:07:57,260 --> 00:07:59,600 ♪ She got everything that Uncle John need ♪ 169 00:07:59,730 --> 00:08:01,310 ♪ Oh, baby ♪ 170 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,786 ♪ Yes, baby ♪ 171 00:08:03,810 --> 00:08:12,820 [Plant] I mean, that was it. 172 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,950 The syringe was in the arm. Forever. 173 00:08:16,030 --> 00:08:18,950 ["Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard playing] 174 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:28,170 {\an8}[song fades out] 175 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:37,470 {\an8}[John Bonham] Oh, well, I'm John Bonham. 176 00:08:38,060 --> 00:08:40,640 I always liked making drum sounds when I was a kid. 177 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,180 [chuckles] 178 00:08:42,850 --> 00:08:44,850 I got my first drum kit when I was ten. 179 00:08:45,230 --> 00:08:47,730 And we went to see a film with Gene Krupa, 180 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:49,070 {\an8}and it was just amazing. 181 00:08:49,190 --> 00:08:51,360 {\an8}[up-tempo, swinging drum solo playing] 182 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,410 ["Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)" by Benny Goodman playing] 183 00:09:10,380 --> 00:09:11,420 [song ends] 184 00:09:12,090 --> 00:09:13,486 [Bonham] Up here in the Midlands, 185 00:09:13,510 --> 00:09:16,090 I used to buy completely different records, you know. 186 00:09:16,550 --> 00:09:19,850 Johnny Kidd & the Pirates were a strong influence then. 187 00:09:19,970 --> 00:09:23,180 {\an8}["Shakin' All Over" by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates] 188 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:29,270 {\an8}♪ When you move in right up close to me ♪ 189 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,450 ♪ That's when I get the shakes all over me ♪ 190 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:43,870 ♪ Shakin' all over... 191 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,300 [song fades] 192 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:01,260 [Jones] You heard it on all the jukeboxes. 193 00:10:01,390 --> 00:10:03,850 Of course, they've got those huge 15-inch speakers. 194 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,940 That's about all you could hear, was the bass. 195 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:09,560 ["Shakin' All Over" continues] 196 00:10:09,650 --> 00:10:10,900 I heard that and thought... 197 00:10:10,980 --> 00:10:12,916 that's a sound I would really like to make. 198 00:10:12,940 --> 00:10:15,780 ♪ Quivers down the backbone... ♪ 199 00:10:15,860 --> 00:10:18,700 [Jones] When I told my father, he said, 200 00:10:18,820 --> 00:10:20,780 "Bass guitar is a novelty instrument. 201 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,290 And in two years' time it will never be heard of again. 202 00:10:25,330 --> 00:10:27,620 Get yourself a saxophone, you'll always work." 203 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:29,500 [chuckles] 204 00:10:29,670 --> 00:10:31,630 So I said, "No. I want a bass guitar, Dad." 205 00:10:32,460 --> 00:10:33,936 He heard me practicing and went, 206 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,960 "Hmm. You're coming with me. 207 00:10:36,090 --> 00:10:38,260 All you've got to do is watch my left hand." 208 00:10:39,010 --> 00:10:40,470 On the piano. So, uh... 209 00:10:41,090 --> 00:10:43,260 I learnt all the standards from that. 210 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:45,560 [solemn organ music playing] 211 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:46,996 I had a little band. 212 00:10:47,020 --> 00:10:48,600 We were playing at the youth club. 213 00:10:48,730 --> 00:10:52,360 {\an8}And I got talking to their very go-ahead young priest. 214 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,626 {\an8}He went, "We'd really like an organist." 215 00:10:54,650 --> 00:10:58,700 {\an8}I said, "Well, I could be an organist for you if you like." 216 00:10:59,030 --> 00:11:00,410 Not thinking anything of it. 217 00:11:00,530 --> 00:11:01,530 He went, "Yeah. Okay." 218 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:03,700 {\an8}["Jerusalem" on organ playing] 219 00:11:05,450 --> 00:11:07,700 {\an8}In church music you have to improvise. 220 00:11:07,830 --> 00:11:11,500 But as I wasn't very good at playing from music anyway, 221 00:11:11,630 --> 00:11:13,460 I just improvised everything. 222 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,210 I learnt the hymns. 223 00:11:15,340 --> 00:11:17,186 I could figure out what the hymns were. 224 00:11:17,210 --> 00:11:20,220 I'm not particularly religious but it was a good gig. 225 00:11:20,340 --> 00:11:22,550 All right? And he was a really cool priest. 226 00:11:22,970 --> 00:11:27,640 And so I became organist and choirmaster at 14. 227 00:11:27,810 --> 00:11:34,746 ♪ And did those feet in ancient time ♪ 228 00:11:34,770 --> 00:11:40,280 ♪ Walk upon England's mountains green... ♪ 229 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,370 ...which paid me the princely sum of £25 a year 230 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,160 which bought me a Fender bass. 231 00:11:50,750 --> 00:11:52,370 ["Jerusalem" fades out] 232 00:11:53,210 --> 00:11:56,040 [Page] I use to go and jam on Thursday night 233 00:11:56,170 --> 00:11:57,300 {\an8}at the Marquee Club. 234 00:11:57,380 --> 00:12:00,380 {\an8}And after a period of doing this, 235 00:12:00,510 --> 00:12:03,090 {\an8}this band called Carter Lewis and the Southerners 236 00:12:03,220 --> 00:12:04,406 {\an8}came up to me and asked me 237 00:12:04,430 --> 00:12:06,180 {\an8}if I'd like to play on their record. 238 00:12:06,260 --> 00:12:08,270 {\an8}I said, "Yeah, sure. That sounds really good." 239 00:12:08,390 --> 00:12:10,140 So I went along with my kit. 240 00:12:10,270 --> 00:12:12,440 The DeArmond foot pedal and the amplifier 241 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,440 and my brand new Gibson Les Paul. 242 00:12:16,270 --> 00:12:17,610 And the band'd say, 243 00:12:17,690 --> 00:12:19,990 "Well, just make something up for the solo." 244 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,450 By the second run-through, I've already got a part for it. 245 00:12:23,530 --> 00:12:27,030 ["Somebody Told My Girl" by Carter Lewis & the Southerners] 246 00:12:28,870 --> 00:12:30,120 ♪ Woo 247 00:12:32,870 --> 00:12:34,040 ♪ Oh 248 00:12:36,590 --> 00:12:39,226 [Page] And the buzz must have gone around 249 00:12:39,250 --> 00:12:41,170 about this young guitarist, 250 00:12:41,260 --> 00:12:45,090 because I started to get calls for more studio dates. 251 00:12:46,550 --> 00:12:48,430 When I got into this session world, 252 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,220 I was, like, seven years younger than anybody else. 253 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:56,100 And they didn't have somebody in the old guard, 254 00:12:56,230 --> 00:12:57,520 or the current guard, 255 00:12:57,650 --> 00:12:59,496 who really knew all the influences 256 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,530 and the points of reference that the younger bands had. 257 00:13:03,030 --> 00:13:04,716 So, of course, I knew all of it, 258 00:13:04,740 --> 00:13:07,740 whether it was, like, R&B or whether it was blues 259 00:13:07,870 --> 00:13:09,950 or rock, whatever it was. 260 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,750 Everybody was getting these records 261 00:13:11,910 --> 00:13:13,436 that originally came over 262 00:13:13,460 --> 00:13:17,290 maybe with the American merchant vessels. 263 00:13:17,790 --> 00:13:20,800 The R&B boom had kicked in. 264 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,420 ["Keep It To Yourself" by Sonny Boy Williamson playing] 265 00:13:33,230 --> 00:13:35,140 [Plant] I went to see Sonny Boy Williamson 266 00:13:35,230 --> 00:13:37,190 at the American Folk Blues Festival. 267 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,416 It was around the time I was learning to play harmonica too. 268 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,150 It was just this amazing onslaught 269 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,990 of music from whence we had no idea. 270 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,410 [soulful blues music playing] 271 00:13:50,530 --> 00:13:53,160 ♪ Darling, do me a favor ♪ 272 00:13:54,290 --> 00:13:55,790 ♪ Keep it to yourself ♪ 273 00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:02,670 ♪ Please, darling, do me a favor ♪ 274 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:05,800 ♪ Keep our business to yourself ♪ 275 00:14:09,180 --> 00:14:11,970 ♪ I don't want you to tell nobody ♪ 276 00:14:12,470 --> 00:14:15,180 ♪ And don't mention it to no one else... ♪ 277 00:14:19,190 --> 00:14:22,480 [mellow harmonica solo playing] 278 00:14:24,650 --> 00:14:26,570 [Plant] Sonny Boy was almost everything 279 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:31,070 that's become my whole entire musical bloodstream really. 280 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,410 [song continues] 281 00:14:38,370 --> 00:14:41,420 But in my own hometown, I had my own hero, 282 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,550 {\an8}and it was Perry Foster. 283 00:14:43,670 --> 00:14:47,840 {\an8}And he had this kind of setup called the Delta Blues Band. 284 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:51,696 And somehow or another, I managed to blag my way 285 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,390 into this band. 286 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,730 I was prepared to be a mod or a rocker 287 00:14:56,850 --> 00:14:59,440 or a beatnik or anything so long as I could sing 288 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,190 and gather these looks around me, 289 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,900 just trying to make it stick on the wall. 290 00:15:06,990 --> 00:15:09,450 {\an8}[Bonham] I used to play and used to have a job as well. 291 00:15:09,610 --> 00:15:12,240 {\an8}Used to be working with my father in the building trade. 292 00:15:12,740 --> 00:15:15,120 Used to be good builders then. [chuckles] 293 00:15:15,870 --> 00:15:17,950 But, you know, the job gradually gets less 294 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,370 {\an8}and the music more. That's what seems to happen. 295 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,000 {\an8}You know, we left school and we formed small groups, 296 00:15:23,130 --> 00:15:24,420 {\an8}and things like that, 297 00:15:24,540 --> 00:15:26,300 {\an8}and played locally and everything. 298 00:15:27,090 --> 00:15:30,090 You know, for me, soul music was a strong influence then. 299 00:15:30,220 --> 00:15:33,430 ["Please, Please, Please" by James Brown playing] 300 00:15:36,180 --> 00:15:39,430 {\an8}[women screaming] 301 00:15:55,450 --> 00:15:57,330 [Bonham] James Brown was a big favorite 302 00:15:57,410 --> 00:16:00,040 because the drum sound was just amazing. 303 00:16:00,370 --> 00:16:02,266 I thought, "I'm gonna get that sound." 304 00:16:02,290 --> 00:16:04,540 [song continues] 305 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:12,470 [Bonham] When I was 16, 306 00:16:12,590 --> 00:16:14,970 I went to see a group with Robert singing. 307 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,930 The gig went incredibly well because he was bloody great. 308 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,230 [Plant] In the crowd watching this 309 00:16:21,310 --> 00:16:25,190 {\an8}was some larger-than-life guy with his beautiful girlfriend. 310 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:28,320 {\an8}He got a hold of me afterwards and he said, 311 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:29,940 {\an8}"Well, you're okay, 312 00:16:30,070 --> 00:16:32,950 {\an8}but you'd be a lot better with a proper drummer behind you." 313 00:16:33,490 --> 00:16:36,530 And I thought, "Jesus Christ. Here we go." 314 00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:40,120 [Bonham] The first time we played together 315 00:16:40,330 --> 00:16:41,346 we were about 16. 316 00:16:41,370 --> 00:16:42,686 And it was really good. 317 00:16:42,710 --> 00:16:44,830 ["I Got To Find My Baby" by Band of Joy playing] 318 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,420 [Plant] John was amazing. 319 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,970 He was a really powerful drummer. 320 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,800 I watched him with absolute amazement. 321 00:16:57,930 --> 00:16:58,970 He was just... 322 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:00,770 fantastic. 323 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,390 [Bonham] But it's so competitive playing locally anyway. 324 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,020 You'd, like, have a time going on the road 325 00:17:07,150 --> 00:17:08,610 and everything would be roses, 326 00:17:08,730 --> 00:17:10,780 then all of a sudden, no more gigs, no more money. 327 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:12,490 You're back to where you started. 328 00:17:12,860 --> 00:17:15,490 One time, we were running out of fuel 329 00:17:15,990 --> 00:17:18,700 and I had to siphon the gasoline from another car 330 00:17:18,910 --> 00:17:21,516 and I was caught by the police in the middle of the night, 331 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:24,160 sucking a piece of rubber into a can. 332 00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:26,710 And him sitting in the back shivering, 333 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:29,590 thinking, "What the hell will Pat say?" 334 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,130 Pat became his wife and she used to say, 335 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:37,090 "Don't you dare play with that Planty. 336 00:17:37,510 --> 00:17:38,890 He's a complete disaster." 337 00:17:39,010 --> 00:17:42,350 ["Song of Mexico" by Tony Meehan playing] 338 00:17:48,270 --> 00:17:51,190 [Jones] I left school at 16. 339 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,780 I failed most of my exams 340 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,240 because I'd been playing all night in some club 341 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:57,490 the night before my O-Levels. 342 00:17:57,610 --> 00:17:58,926 And my dad was saying, 343 00:17:58,950 --> 00:18:02,120 "Well, I can get you a job as a clerk somewhere." 344 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,540 "No, no. I'll find a band, Dad. I'll find a band." 345 00:18:05,660 --> 00:18:07,396 So there used to be a place in London 346 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:08,670 called Archer Street. 347 00:18:08,750 --> 00:18:10,726 And every Monday morning, 348 00:18:10,750 --> 00:18:14,630 all the local musicians would congregate for work. 349 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:17,630 And so I went there as a kid. 350 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,430 Every Monday morning, I was there. 351 00:18:19,550 --> 00:18:21,760 [song continues] 352 00:18:34,030 --> 00:18:36,570 [Jones] And I started getting booked with bands 353 00:18:36,650 --> 00:18:38,660 and in the session scene. 354 00:18:41,780 --> 00:18:43,660 {\an8}[Page] Here comes Jimmy Page 355 00:18:43,790 --> 00:18:45,450 {\an8}with his electric guitar. 356 00:18:45,830 --> 00:18:48,120 {\an8}That's my Les Paul, my Black Beauty. 357 00:18:48,250 --> 00:18:50,670 And this guitar was the guitar 358 00:18:50,790 --> 00:18:52,920 that I played most of my sessions on. 359 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,630 There we are. Going in there to see 360 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,760 what I'm gonna be faced with on that music stand. 361 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,100 ["Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey playing] 362 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,150 Sessions were a lot of fun in those days, actually. 363 00:19:15,820 --> 00:19:18,110 When I started, I ended up playing a lot of sessions 364 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,450 together with Jimmy. 365 00:19:19,530 --> 00:19:21,490 {\an8}♪ Goldfinger... ♪ 366 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:24,120 {\an8}[Jones] The "Goldfinger" session was at Abbey Road. 367 00:19:24,660 --> 00:19:27,120 {\an8}Jimmy and I were in the rhythm section. 368 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:28,710 {\an8}There was a full orchestra... 369 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,370 and Shirley Bassey. 370 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:34,000 ♪ A spider's touch... ♪ 371 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:37,170 [Page] The whole energy just to be in there, 372 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:40,026 I mean, for me, I'm still a kid, really. 373 00:19:40,050 --> 00:19:42,640 And it's, "Wow. It's Shirley Bassey." 374 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,140 [Jones] While you were playing, you could see her. 375 00:19:45,220 --> 00:19:47,496 And she did the whole thing. 376 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,036 ♪ Goldfinger Like that. 377 00:19:49,060 --> 00:19:50,600 It was wonderful to watch. 378 00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:54,730 ♪ But don't go in ♪ 379 00:19:56,150 --> 00:20:00,240 ♪ Golden words he will pour in your ear ♪ 380 00:20:00,780 --> 00:20:04,740 ♪ But his lies can't disguise what you fear ♪ 381 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:10,160 ♪ For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her... ♪ 382 00:20:10,830 --> 00:20:14,540 [Page] These studios would work with ruthless efficiency. 383 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,250 So you couldn't be the one to mess up 384 00:20:17,380 --> 00:20:19,010 so they went into overtime. 385 00:20:19,130 --> 00:20:20,510 'Course, if you messed up, 386 00:20:20,590 --> 00:20:22,010 you wouldn't have been seen again. 387 00:20:22,130 --> 00:20:26,050 ♪ Beware of this heart of gold ♪ 388 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,890 ♪ This heart is cold 389 00:20:32,390 --> 00:20:34,706 ♪ He loves only gold... 390 00:20:34,730 --> 00:20:36,770 There'd be a pocket diary, like this, 391 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:39,280 that I'd be carrying with me. 392 00:20:39,690 --> 00:20:42,740 I played on sessions with the Rolling Stones, 393 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:44,820 David Bowie, Petula Clark... 394 00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:47,160 I was on the Kinks' records. 395 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:48,990 The first Who record. 396 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,580 I mean, it goes right across the board. 397 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,120 But I didn't do anything with the Beatles. 398 00:20:54,580 --> 00:21:01,760 ♪ He loves gold 399 00:21:08,550 --> 00:21:11,930 {\an8}["Sunshine Superman" by Donovan playing] 400 00:21:21,570 --> 00:21:23,780 {\an8}[Page] I did quite a lot of work with Donovan 401 00:21:23,990 --> 00:21:26,700 {\an8}and I really enjoyed working with him. 402 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,910 {\an8}And Mickie Most was his producer. 403 00:21:29,990 --> 00:21:32,250 {\an8}♪ It'll take time, I know it ♪ 404 00:21:32,330 --> 00:21:35,040 {\an8}These sessions were great 'cause I could watch 405 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:38,000 and I could ask questions about things, 406 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,090 and I certainly did. 407 00:21:39,210 --> 00:21:41,986 I made it my business to ask engineers 408 00:21:42,010 --> 00:21:43,630 how certain effects were done, 409 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:45,606 like tape echo and reverb. 410 00:21:45,630 --> 00:21:48,446 And you could see the way that they were miking 411 00:21:48,470 --> 00:21:50,100 various instruments. 412 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,576 And, basically, that's what I could do. 413 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,350 I was allowed to, sort of, do that. 414 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,100 Not only that, I got a chance to have a solo as well. 415 00:21:57,270 --> 00:21:58,520 So that was good. 416 00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:03,280 [bright, funky guitar solo playing] 417 00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:10,506 [Jones] I went to Mickie Most and said, 418 00:22:10,530 --> 00:22:11,780 "Do you need an arranger?" 419 00:22:11,950 --> 00:22:13,830 - "You do arrang..." - "Yeah, I do arrangements. 420 00:22:13,950 --> 00:22:16,210 Yeah. All the time." And, uh... 421 00:22:16,660 --> 00:22:18,790 I hadn't really done that before. 422 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,840 But my dad had always taught me never turn down work, right? 423 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:26,840 And had a great working relationship with him. 424 00:22:26,970 --> 00:22:28,680 ["To Sir, With Love" by Lulu playing] 425 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,050 {\an8}He used to drive by in his yellow Rolls-Royce 426 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:34,060 {\an8}and drop an acetate through my letterbox 427 00:22:34,180 --> 00:22:37,190 with "You know what we want. It's Friday." 428 00:22:37,310 --> 00:22:38,390 And that was it. 429 00:22:38,980 --> 00:22:41,706 I'd be playing bass in sessions all day, seven days a week. 430 00:22:41,730 --> 00:22:43,666 So I had to write arrangements at night. 431 00:22:43,690 --> 00:22:45,530 And then nine o'clock in the morning 432 00:22:45,610 --> 00:22:47,860 I'd go to the session and do the songs. 433 00:22:48,030 --> 00:22:51,200 I did all the arrangements for Herman's Hermits 434 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:52,450 and Donovan, 435 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,750 and had quite a lot to do with Lulu. 436 00:22:55,870 --> 00:22:58,000 Did all her arrangements with Mickie Most as well. 437 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,670 ♪ How do you thank someone ♪ 438 00:22:59,830 --> 00:23:05,510 {\an8}♪ Who has taken you from crayons to perfume ♪ 439 00:23:06,010 --> 00:23:08,800 {\an8}♪ It isn't easy 440 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,760 {\an8}♪ But I'll try... ♪ 441 00:23:13,890 --> 00:23:15,370 {\an8}[Jones] I even did film work with her, 442 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,940 {\an8}like To Sir, With Love, which was a big hit in America. 443 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,900 {\an8}This was considered the pinnacle of the music business. 444 00:23:23,610 --> 00:23:25,730 My dad was incredibly proud... 445 00:23:26,150 --> 00:23:28,126 when people he knew and respected 446 00:23:28,150 --> 00:23:30,700 would come, "Ooh, I saw your John on so-and-so session 447 00:23:30,820 --> 00:23:33,450 the other day. He's okay. He's good, you know." 448 00:23:33,570 --> 00:23:34,870 And... 449 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,700 Puffed him up a lot. 450 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,226 [Plant] I was in a lot of different bands 451 00:23:42,250 --> 00:23:43,420 around that time. 452 00:23:43,670 --> 00:23:46,776 I did a couple adventures in recording studios. 453 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,760 But my parents, they weren't that keen at all. 454 00:23:51,260 --> 00:23:55,560 In fact, when I cut my record, the first single on CBS, 455 00:23:56,060 --> 00:23:57,640 they didn't know anything about it, 456 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,640 'cause I, um... 457 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,086 I was given the alternative of staying in the world of 458 00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:05,480 academia and... 459 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,190 my article-- training for my articles... 460 00:24:10,650 --> 00:24:12,990 as a chartered accountant or... 461 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,580 you just go out into the world and do what you gotta do. 462 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:18,120 So I did. 463 00:24:18,580 --> 00:24:19,910 So I waved everybody goodbye. 464 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,790 ["You Better Run" by Led Zeppelin playing] 465 00:24:21,910 --> 00:24:24,670 {\an8}♪ Whatcha tryin' to do to my soul ♪ 466 00:24:25,210 --> 00:24:28,500 {\an8}♪ Whatcha tryin' to do to my soul... ♪ 467 00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:29,920 {\an8}[Plant] I knew there were singers 468 00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:31,300 who had more chops than me, 469 00:24:31,420 --> 00:24:33,130 but I was just out there, 470 00:24:33,470 --> 00:24:35,180 throwing it up in the air. 471 00:24:36,140 --> 00:24:39,430 I had caftans, painted faces, bells ringing, 472 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,180 incense blazing, 473 00:24:41,310 --> 00:24:42,326 and... [chuckles] 474 00:24:42,350 --> 00:24:43,350 ...was just... 475 00:24:43,810 --> 00:24:45,416 {\an8}[Bonham] Robert used to get up to more mischief 476 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,650 {\an8}and little sort of things than any of us do. 477 00:24:48,730 --> 00:24:50,400 {\an8}It's ridiculous, you know. 478 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:54,820 John came up to me and said, "Well, what's all that about?" 479 00:24:55,530 --> 00:24:58,530 I said, "Yeah, you're right. What is that all about?" 480 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,660 [Bonham] It was the end of '67. 481 00:25:00,830 --> 00:25:02,370 We got back together 482 00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:04,830 and the playing went incredibly well. 483 00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:08,460 ["Memory Lane" by Robert Plant and the Band of Joy playing] 484 00:25:13,970 --> 00:25:15,550 ♪ Down the lane ♪ 485 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,180 ♪ Creeps Auntie Jane ♪ 486 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:20,100 ♪ As she has for 60 years... ♪ 487 00:25:20,260 --> 00:25:22,730 [Plant] So we formed the Band of Joy. 488 00:25:22,850 --> 00:25:25,286 We wanted to mix the blues with psychedelia. 489 00:25:25,310 --> 00:25:28,440 We wanted to be a part of that huge movement. 490 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:29,900 We played at Frank Freeman's. 491 00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:32,070 We played Middle Earth in London. 492 00:25:32,780 --> 00:25:36,030 We went down to Tin Pan Alley and we recorded "Memory Lane," 493 00:25:36,490 --> 00:25:39,870 which was my first adventure in songwriting. 494 00:25:40,830 --> 00:25:42,580 Sadly, we never got it released. 495 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,080 And not many people liked us. 496 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:47,540 But we liked us. 497 00:25:47,710 --> 00:25:49,380 [song continues] 498 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:55,510 ♪ Those were the days ♪ 499 00:25:56,260 --> 00:26:01,810 ♪ In old Memory Lane ♪ 500 00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:08,916 ♪ Those were the days ♪ 501 00:26:08,940 --> 00:26:10,150 ♪ Yes, they were ♪ 502 00:26:10,230 --> 00:26:15,030 ♪ In old Memory Lane ♪ 503 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:17,280 [Plant] Pat was screaming at John, saying, 504 00:26:17,450 --> 00:26:19,530 "I told you to stay away from him. 505 00:26:19,870 --> 00:26:21,080 He'll get you nowhere." 506 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,740 And so he went off with Tim Rose and... 507 00:26:23,870 --> 00:26:26,410 played "I Got a Loneliness" and "Morning Dew." 508 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,896 {\an8}[Bonham] That's how it used to go, really. 509 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,226 {\an8}I mean, we had a kid then. 510 00:26:30,250 --> 00:26:31,790 {\an8}You'd end up having to get a job 511 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,936 {\an8}in a professional group to get a bit of money 512 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,420 {\an8}to sort of live with, really. 513 00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:40,140 I... I just fell from favor everywhere. 514 00:26:41,220 --> 00:26:42,890 Things were pretty tough for me then. 515 00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:47,310 I had a brown suitcase and some penicillin, 516 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,400 and I was homeless. I had nowhere to live. 517 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,480 So I, uh... 518 00:26:51,690 --> 00:26:54,530 I got a gig with this band called Obs-Tweedle. 519 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,450 [mellow bass chords play] 520 00:27:05,410 --> 00:27:07,330 I was totally accepted 521 00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:09,920 in the world of being a studio musician. 522 00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:13,460 I had been caught up doing the things 523 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:16,920 that all of the real old-timers when I joined in were doing. 524 00:27:17,050 --> 00:27:18,260 Like Muzak. 525 00:27:18,420 --> 00:27:21,470 Muzak is what they would call, like, lift music. 526 00:27:21,590 --> 00:27:23,140 You know? Um... 527 00:27:23,260 --> 00:27:27,286 Very, very difficult to do a, uh... 528 00:27:27,310 --> 00:27:28,310 a Muzak session, 529 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,190 because you'd have a whole ream of music 530 00:27:30,310 --> 00:27:32,610 and you'd have to keep turning it and playing it, 531 00:27:32,730 --> 00:27:34,190 turning it and playing it. 532 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,400 To do that, to actually get halfway through 533 00:27:36,530 --> 00:27:39,570 without being physically sick was quite a miracle. 534 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:42,280 So I knew that... that... 535 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:45,240 that it was time to, sort of, come out of there. 536 00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:47,620 All my friends, like Eric and Jeff, 537 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:48,950 were all in bands 538 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,500 and they were having a great time. 539 00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:52,880 I thought, I've got a lot that I really want 540 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,630 to be able to offer. 541 00:27:55,460 --> 00:27:56,800 And Jeff Beck said, 542 00:27:57,090 --> 00:27:59,550 "It'd be really good if you came in with The Yardbirds." 543 00:27:59,630 --> 00:28:01,840 So I thought, "How would you really like to play 544 00:28:01,970 --> 00:28:03,470 if you had the chance?" 545 00:28:03,550 --> 00:28:06,390 "Right. You do it. Do it now. This is your opportunity." 546 00:28:06,510 --> 00:28:09,350 {\an8}["Over Under Sideways Down" by The Yardbirds playing] 547 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,270 {\an8}♪ Over, under, sideways, down ♪ 548 00:28:11,350 --> 00:28:13,190 {\an8}♪ Backwards, forwards square and round ♪ 549 00:28:13,310 --> 00:28:15,746 {\an8}♪ Over, under, sideways, down ♪ 550 00:28:15,770 --> 00:28:17,730 {\an8}♪ Backwards, forwards square and round ♪ 551 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:19,240 ♪ Hey ♪ 552 00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:21,400 ♪ Hey 553 00:28:22,030 --> 00:28:23,200 ♪ Hey 554 00:28:24,530 --> 00:28:25,530 ♪ Hey 555 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,580 [song ends with flourish] 556 00:28:29,660 --> 00:28:31,330 [applause] 557 00:28:32,870 --> 00:28:34,750 Going into The Yardbirds with Jeff, 558 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,920 it was touring with a friend and having a really good time. 559 00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:41,050 But in the middle of an American tour, 560 00:28:41,170 --> 00:28:42,356 he left the band, 561 00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:44,090 and I... I was quite shocked. 562 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,696 But it gave me the opportunity to try a totally new direction. 563 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,270 So I took over on lead guitar. 564 00:28:52,390 --> 00:28:54,690 ["Glimpses" by The Yardbirds playing] 565 00:28:59,690 --> 00:29:02,110 [Page] Nobody was interested in The Yardbirds 566 00:29:02,190 --> 00:29:03,860 over here in England anymore. 567 00:29:03,990 --> 00:29:07,620 So we started to really grow our underground following 568 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:08,910 in America. 569 00:29:09,450 --> 00:29:13,370 And it was just a thrill, an absolute thrill, 570 00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:16,920 just really getting a feel for the West Coast music scene. 571 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,090 [song continues] 572 00:29:24,220 --> 00:29:26,156 But we were up against Mickie Most, 573 00:29:26,180 --> 00:29:27,800 who was our producer, so... 574 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:30,430 we were recording all these awful singles 575 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,600 for the AM Radio, which was the pop radio, 576 00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:37,480 and I didn't want to be making singles anymore. 577 00:29:38,810 --> 00:29:40,150 Being in America 578 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,530 and seeing the advent of the FM underground radio, 579 00:29:42,610 --> 00:29:45,280 which was playing whole sides of albums, 580 00:29:45,490 --> 00:29:49,330 I knew that this was gonna be the way to go in the future. 581 00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:51,240 So that was my plan. 582 00:29:51,370 --> 00:29:53,700 To make albums that would be played, 583 00:29:53,830 --> 00:29:55,080 a whole side, 584 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,580 on the FM stations. 585 00:29:57,710 --> 00:29:59,750 [song continues] 586 00:30:03,630 --> 00:30:05,776 I had this new sound for The Yardbirds 587 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,486 already worked out in my head. 588 00:30:07,510 --> 00:30:11,010 I already knew exactly what I wanted to be doing, guitar-wise, 589 00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:13,020 on the new stuff that I had in mind 590 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:14,310 like "Dazed and Confused," 591 00:30:14,430 --> 00:30:17,270 which was inspired by Jake Holmes. 592 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,770 ["Dazed and Confused" by The Yardbirds playing] 593 00:30:21,650 --> 00:30:22,650 {\an8}♪ Hey, hey ♪ 594 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,780 {\an8}♪ Hey, hey ♪ 595 00:30:24,940 --> 00:30:26,490 ♪ Right, I... ♪ 596 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,460 [Page] That guitar was given to me 597 00:30:44,590 --> 00:30:45,760 by Jeff Beck. 598 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:47,300 I painted it. 599 00:30:47,380 --> 00:30:49,390 I consecrated the guitar. 600 00:30:50,470 --> 00:30:54,100 This is the guitar that takes the full journey 601 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,890 like... Excalibur, the mythical sword. 602 00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:01,900 [warbling guitar melody playing] 603 00:31:13,830 --> 00:31:17,200 I went to a palm reading in LA. 604 00:31:17,830 --> 00:31:19,556 And the palmist said, 605 00:31:19,580 --> 00:31:23,380 "You're gonna be making a decision very soon 606 00:31:23,540 --> 00:31:25,380 which is gonna change your life." 607 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,510 A meeting happened two or three days after the palmist... 608 00:31:30,010 --> 00:31:32,720 where the group said, "That's it. We wanna fold." 609 00:31:34,430 --> 00:31:35,810 I mean, it was a shock. 610 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,770 I immediately went, "Well, now I know what I'm gonna do. 611 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:44,456 I'm gonna form my own group, 612 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,640 and I know exactly what it is that I wanna do with it," 613 00:31:46,730 --> 00:31:50,240 and I just needed to find a powerful vocalist. 614 00:31:50,740 --> 00:31:52,950 And so there was a singer called Terry Reid. 615 00:31:53,070 --> 00:31:54,370 He registered with me 616 00:31:54,490 --> 00:31:56,950 and I thought, "I'm gonna aim for him." 617 00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:00,960 {\an8}I asked Peter Grant if he could track down Terry Reid. 618 00:32:01,540 --> 00:32:03,750 {\an8}Peter Grant was the manager of The Yardbirds 619 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,840 {\an8}and, bless him, he really believed in me. 620 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,210 This is the thing, once The Yardbirds folded, 621 00:32:08,380 --> 00:32:09,736 and I said, "I wanna start a group," 622 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,760 he was there. You know? He said, "Great. 623 00:32:12,890 --> 00:32:14,260 Whatever help I can give." 624 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,430 Peter Grant and Mickie Most were in the same office and... 625 00:32:18,890 --> 00:32:20,430 they had two desks, 626 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,770 and they, more or less, faced each other across the room. 627 00:32:25,150 --> 00:32:26,820 The next thing that I hear is, 628 00:32:26,940 --> 00:32:30,190 "Oh, unfortunately Terry Reid's signed a solo deal 629 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,297 with Mickie Most." 630 00:32:31,321 --> 00:32:32,820 And I, "Oh, yeah?" 631 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,880 - Off the press? - Right. I know that one. 632 00:32:34,910 --> 00:32:36,096 - For you. - Right. 633 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,596 I thought, "Wow. This is super ruthless." 634 00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:39,830 But nevertheless, Terry Reid suggested 635 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,460 a singer from the Midlands in a band called Obs-Tweedle. 636 00:32:42,580 --> 00:32:45,330 "This is an unusual name. This is a bit odd." 637 00:32:46,090 --> 00:32:48,800 He and Peter Grant came up to have a look at me. 638 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,340 He asked me if I knew where he could find Robert Plant. 639 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:56,640 And I said, "Yeah. Right here." 640 00:32:56,970 --> 00:33:00,810 He was doing some wonderful improvised vocals 641 00:33:00,930 --> 00:33:02,430 and I thought they were marvelous. 642 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,850 So I invited him round my house. 643 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,520 I still had nowhere to live, sadly. 644 00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:11,400 So I took my suitcase and got a train to Pangbourne 645 00:33:11,530 --> 00:33:13,490 and knocked on another door. 646 00:33:14,610 --> 00:33:16,636 [Page] Yeah. We had a really good connection. 647 00:33:16,660 --> 00:33:20,016 And he was looking through my records, 648 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,330 "I've got that one." You know? 649 00:33:21,450 --> 00:33:23,976 And I played him a Joan Baez version 650 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,516 of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" 651 00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:28,960 and said, "If you can sing that top line there, 652 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,960 I've got an arrangement that goes with it." 653 00:33:31,050 --> 00:33:34,220 And it just really, really dovetailed together. 654 00:33:34,340 --> 00:33:35,486 It was beautiful. 655 00:33:35,510 --> 00:33:37,850 He... He... He just sang beautifully. 656 00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:40,310 ["Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin playing] 657 00:33:40,390 --> 00:33:41,850 ♪ Babe ♪ 658 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,940 ♪ Baby, baby ♪ 659 00:33:47,020 --> 00:33:49,860 ♪ I'm gonna leave you... ♪ 660 00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:52,900 We knew something was in the air. 661 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:56,280 I could feel this stuff around me. 662 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,620 Jimmy's guitar playing was just tremendous. Amazing. 663 00:34:04,580 --> 00:34:07,880 Jimmy then said, "We've got this drummer lined up." 664 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,590 And before he went any further, I said, "Wait a minute. 665 00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:12,550 There is no drummer on the planet 666 00:34:12,670 --> 00:34:15,170 to compare with John Bonham. 667 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:16,880 He's magnificent." 668 00:34:17,380 --> 00:34:19,090 He was playing with Tim Rose. 669 00:34:19,550 --> 00:34:21,236 Jimmy said, "Oh, well, if that's the case, 670 00:34:21,260 --> 00:34:22,640 let's go and see him." 671 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:26,270 And I said, "John, you've got to listen to Jimmy play. 672 00:34:26,390 --> 00:34:27,440 He's amazing." 673 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,350 John said, "Not a chance." 674 00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:33,570 I said, "You gotta be crazy. You don't wanna do this stuff," 675 00:34:33,650 --> 00:34:35,570 playing electric folk. 676 00:34:35,990 --> 00:34:38,926 "Come with me." He said, "Pat would kill me." 677 00:34:38,950 --> 00:34:40,240 "Don't say that!" 678 00:34:40,370 --> 00:34:42,620 I said, "I'll talk to Pat, and your mum." 679 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,120 [Jones] My wife Mo read that, "Oh, Jimmy's forming a band. 680 00:34:49,540 --> 00:34:51,130 You should give him a call. 681 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:52,920 See if he wants a bass player." 682 00:34:53,050 --> 00:34:54,276 Like, "No! I can't... 683 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,050 I've got this to do, I've got that to do. 684 00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:57,736 I got these arra-- and albums..." 685 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,640 "No," she said. She insisted. "Give him a call, please." 686 00:35:01,930 --> 00:35:03,100 So I did. 687 00:35:03,310 --> 00:35:05,720 I said, "Hello, Jim. Heard you're forming a band." 688 00:35:05,810 --> 00:35:08,100 He went, "Yeah, yeah." I said, "Uh... 689 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,560 Do you want a bass player?" 690 00:35:09,730 --> 00:35:11,520 He went, "Well, actually, yes. 691 00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:13,650 But there's a problem." I said, "What's that?" 692 00:35:13,770 --> 00:35:16,506 He said, "The drummer is playing with Tim Rose 693 00:35:16,530 --> 00:35:19,700 and he's getting £40 a week. Can we best it?" 694 00:35:20,910 --> 00:35:21,910 [chuckles] 695 00:35:22,030 --> 00:35:24,450 So we decided, yeah, we probably could. 696 00:35:25,830 --> 00:35:29,410 {\an8}[Page] Peter Grant managed to get a two-hour rehearsal space 697 00:35:29,580 --> 00:35:30,830 {\an8}in Gerrard Street. 698 00:35:31,250 --> 00:35:35,420 {\an8}So we all get there and I've got my equipment set up. 699 00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:38,340 {\an8}John Paul Jones is there with his session equipment, 700 00:35:38,420 --> 00:35:40,316 and John's got his drums. 701 00:35:40,340 --> 00:35:43,326 [Jones] It literally was just wall to wall amplifiers 702 00:35:43,350 --> 00:35:45,350 and we just picked one up... 703 00:35:45,470 --> 00:35:47,680 "Hello. How are you?" "Right," you know? 704 00:35:47,810 --> 00:35:49,850 "I'm so-and-so. He's so-and-so else." 705 00:35:50,270 --> 00:35:52,150 {\an8}[Bonham] It was quite strange really, 706 00:35:52,270 --> 00:35:53,440 {\an8}meeting John Paul and Jimmy. 707 00:35:53,650 --> 00:35:54,900 {\an8}Coming from where I'd come from, 708 00:35:55,020 --> 00:35:56,900 {\an8}I'd sort of thought it was a bit of a joke, 709 00:35:57,030 --> 00:35:59,070 {\an8}getting telegrams and things, you know. 710 00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:01,490 There's a chance of becoming one of The Yardbirds, 711 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,570 it's like a gift from Heaven, wasn't it? 712 00:36:03,990 --> 00:36:06,620 I said the first number that I want to do 713 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,370 is "Train Kept A-Rollin'." 714 00:36:08,540 --> 00:36:10,370 "Train Kept A-Rollin'." "Do you know it?" 715 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:11,790 I went, "Mm. Nope." 716 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,516 He said, "Well, it's a 12-bar." [hums riff] 717 00:36:14,540 --> 00:36:16,976 "It's got this riff." "Okay. Count it in." 718 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,300 And that was it. 719 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,510 And the room just exploded. 720 00:36:20,670 --> 00:36:23,050 We just kept playing it and doing solo breaks 721 00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:26,140 and all the rest of it, and Robert's improvising. 722 00:36:26,220 --> 00:36:27,826 I'd never heard anything like it. 723 00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:29,656 I was expecting some cool soul singer 724 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,480 and there's this screaming maniac... 725 00:36:33,150 --> 00:36:36,020 with this fantastic voice and a fantastic range. 726 00:36:36,150 --> 00:36:37,770 I was like, "What are you doing up there? 727 00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:39,610 You'll hurt yourself, man." 728 00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:43,030 It was devastating because it seemed like... 729 00:36:43,950 --> 00:36:45,886 that had been what I'd been waiting for. 730 00:36:45,910 --> 00:36:47,580 [Bonham] I was pretty shy. 731 00:36:47,660 --> 00:36:50,080 The best thing to do when you're in a situation like that 732 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,516 is not to say much and just soldier along 733 00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:54,396 and suss it all out, sort of thing. 734 00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:55,856 Well, being a bass player, 735 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,840 and he was probably thinking the same thing, 736 00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,590 you know, because rhythm sections 737 00:36:59,710 --> 00:37:02,670 are very sensitive creatures really... 738 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:04,550 um... 739 00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:07,050 I just needed to know that 740 00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:08,600 we could work together. 741 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:10,906 [Bonham] The first time we played together 742 00:37:10,930 --> 00:37:12,916 you could tell it was gonna be a good group. 743 00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:14,850 Not being sort of flashy about it. 744 00:37:14,940 --> 00:37:16,536 [Bonham laughs] 745 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,570 But I am. [Bonham cackles] 746 00:37:20,110 --> 00:37:21,296 Marvelous. 747 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,070 When it finally came to a halt, 748 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,030 I'm absolutely convinced 749 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,830 that everyone knew that that was a life-changing experience. 750 00:37:28,910 --> 00:37:30,926 I think there was so much kinetic energy, 751 00:37:30,950 --> 00:37:33,960 so much energy that needed to come out for everybody. 752 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,920 Let's take it to the next stage and let's take it to Pangbourne. 753 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,210 ["Jennings Farm Blues" by Led Zeppelin playing] 754 00:37:48,470 --> 00:37:50,470 [Page] Pangbourne is on the River Thames. 755 00:37:50,850 --> 00:37:54,100 I remember when I first came across this boat house, 756 00:37:54,230 --> 00:37:56,350 I just saw this absolute magic. 757 00:37:56,810 --> 00:37:58,440 It had a good energy to it. 758 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,900 And it was just a cauldron of creativity. 759 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,450 This is the house I lived in in 1967 through to 1970. 760 00:38:06,990 --> 00:38:10,370 We set up initially in the upstairs of the house. 761 00:38:10,490 --> 00:38:12,240 Where those windows are at the top, 762 00:38:12,330 --> 00:38:13,500 there's a largish room 763 00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:16,460 and that was where we did the rehearsals. 764 00:38:16,580 --> 00:38:18,790 [song continues] 765 00:38:22,380 --> 00:38:24,300 We were overlooking the river. 766 00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:25,550 It was beautiful. 767 00:38:25,630 --> 00:38:27,840 And we just got to know each other 768 00:38:27,970 --> 00:38:29,260 and worked pretty hard. 769 00:38:29,430 --> 00:38:30,550 We weren't slackers. 770 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,180 Our aim wasn't to be seen on the telly. 771 00:38:32,260 --> 00:38:35,156 We all wanted to play music very badly. 772 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:38,060 We were working on the material for the album, 773 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,650 and then we were putting in other material as well 774 00:38:41,820 --> 00:38:43,820 that was gonna fill out the set. 775 00:38:44,650 --> 00:38:47,030 We were rehearsing for days, 776 00:38:47,150 --> 00:38:49,160 and it would have been pretty loud. 777 00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:51,660 You'd hear it. You'd hear it over here. 778 00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:54,580 I did expect somebody to be knocking on the door 779 00:38:54,660 --> 00:38:56,370 to complain, but nobody did. 780 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,670 [song continues] 781 00:39:04,250 --> 00:39:06,090 [Bonham] We got together very quickly 782 00:39:06,170 --> 00:39:09,130 because there was already a tour that had to be done 783 00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:10,430 by The Yardbirds, 784 00:39:10,510 --> 00:39:12,430 which was a few dates in Scandinavia. 785 00:39:12,510 --> 00:39:14,810 It was convenient that, lo and behold, 786 00:39:14,890 --> 00:39:16,866 there was this tour that we could do. 787 00:39:16,890 --> 00:39:18,690 So we could go there and have the benefit 788 00:39:18,810 --> 00:39:20,230 of playing in front of an audience 789 00:39:20,310 --> 00:39:22,610 away from London and all the rest of it. 790 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:25,730 {\an8}[Plant] Off to Scandinavia we went 791 00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:28,860 {\an8}for our first concert as The Yardbirds. 792 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,700 And we went on an aeroplane, 793 00:39:30,820 --> 00:39:32,370 me and John sitting next to each other 794 00:39:32,530 --> 00:39:33,740 having a cigarette, 795 00:39:33,870 --> 00:39:36,056 seeing lots and lots of silverware, 796 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,870 knives and forks in front of us. 797 00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:40,250 Stuff that we would normally have stolen 798 00:39:40,330 --> 00:39:41,880 was there in profusion. 799 00:39:42,330 --> 00:39:44,340 Couldn't have even got enough of it in our bags 800 00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:46,630 to get off the plane without having somebody help us. 801 00:39:46,710 --> 00:39:49,236 It was great. Everything was there. 802 00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:50,340 Gin, tonic... 803 00:39:51,050 --> 00:39:52,140 people. 804 00:39:52,550 --> 00:39:54,760 People being kind and charming. 805 00:39:55,310 --> 00:39:56,310 Air conditioning. 806 00:39:56,430 --> 00:39:57,560 It was off we went. 807 00:39:57,930 --> 00:40:00,060 Because you couldn't... What could you do? 808 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,190 Couldn't go back to Mummy then. 809 00:40:04,310 --> 00:40:05,980 [audience chatter] 810 00:40:08,690 --> 00:40:10,570 {\an8}[Jones] When I told my colleagues 811 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,030 {\an8}and the people that employ me 812 00:40:12,110 --> 00:40:13,990 that I'm giving up session work, 813 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,200 I'm gonna join a rock 'n' roll band... 814 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,040 everybody said, "You're mad. You're completely crazy." 815 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,370 ["How Many More Times" by The Yardbirds playing] 816 00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:27,550 On bass guitar, John Paul Jones. 817 00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:29,210 John Paul Jones. 818 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:34,390 On drums, 819 00:40:34,550 --> 00:40:35,890 John Bonham. 820 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,770 Lead guitar, Jimmy Page. 821 00:40:48,110 --> 00:40:49,990 And myself, Robert Plant. 822 00:40:50,110 --> 00:40:52,900 [mellow blues rock rhythm playing] 823 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,280 Yes! All right! 824 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,080 Yes! 825 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,816 Come on. Ah, yeah! 826 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,470 [blues rock rhythm continues] 827 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,570 [driving rhythm continues] 828 00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:33,320 ♪ How many more times 829 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,160 ♪ Treat me the way that you wanna do ♪ 830 00:41:44,830 --> 00:41:47,210 ♪ How many more times 831 00:41:50,340 --> 00:41:56,550 ♪ Treat me the way that you wanna do ♪ 832 00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:03,310 ♪ Would you be mad with me, baby ♪ 833 00:42:05,270 --> 00:42:06,520 ♪ Please 834 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,560 ♪ Please 835 00:42:11,110 --> 00:42:14,900 ♪ Please be true 836 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,290 ♪ I'll give you all I've got to give ♪ 837 00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:34,840 ♪ Rings 838 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,390 ♪ Pearls 839 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,510 ♪ And all 840 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,900 ♪ I'll give you all I've got to give ♪ 841 00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:56,530 ♪ Rings 842 00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:59,910 ♪ Pearls, and all ♪ 843 00:43:07,460 --> 00:43:10,540 ♪ Why don't you get yourself together, baby ♪ 844 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,066 ♪ I'm sure 845 00:43:14,090 --> 00:43:19,300 ♪ Sure you're gonna crawl ♪ 846 00:43:28,690 --> 00:43:31,270 ♪ My, my, my, yeah 847 00:43:39,860 --> 00:43:40,990 Yes! 848 00:43:41,110 --> 00:43:44,330 [shrill, intense guitar solo playing] 849 00:44:22,530 --> 00:44:25,490 [solo continues, frantic and driving] 850 00:44:39,510 --> 00:44:43,720 [song lumbers behind loud, driving guitar solo] 851 00:45:08,370 --> 00:45:10,040 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah 852 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,160 [song presses onward, slowly building] 853 00:45:27,550 --> 00:45:29,640 [song builds] 854 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,770 [song peaks, ends abruptly, echoes] 855 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,070 [Bonham] It went so well, really, 856 00:45:44,150 --> 00:45:46,256 that the group started to make the album 857 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,320 straight after coming back from Scandinavia. 858 00:45:48,410 --> 00:45:52,250 How long had we been together about then? What, a month? 859 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,080 [Page] We went into Olympic Studios at night 860 00:45:56,250 --> 00:45:57,830 over a few weeks. 861 00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:01,960 The very first time we go in is the 25th of September 862 00:46:02,050 --> 00:46:03,210 in 1968. 863 00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:06,720 Arrival time from 11:00 p.m. onwards. 864 00:46:08,220 --> 00:46:09,550 [engineer] Let's take one. 865 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,720 {\an8}Right. 866 00:46:11,260 --> 00:46:13,576 {\an8}There's Glyn Johns, dear Glyn, 867 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,140 at the controls of the Helios desk 868 00:46:16,270 --> 00:46:18,626 that was custom-built for Olympic Studios, 869 00:46:18,650 --> 00:46:20,730 and he was doing the engineering on it. 870 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,506 - [Jones] Drumming set one. - [drums play] 871 00:46:23,530 --> 00:46:25,030 [Plant] John, Jimmy, and John Paul 872 00:46:25,150 --> 00:46:26,700 were much more connected 873 00:46:26,820 --> 00:46:28,410 in these sessions than I was... 874 00:46:29,030 --> 00:46:31,450 because they were recording it live. 875 00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:34,160 They had to make it work on the floor. 876 00:46:34,290 --> 00:46:35,410 A take is a take. 877 00:46:35,540 --> 00:46:38,306 So it was an electric atmosphere. 878 00:46:38,330 --> 00:46:41,170 And I just tried to land on top of it all. 879 00:46:42,710 --> 00:46:45,510 [Page] John Paul Jones brought the most amazing bass playing, 880 00:46:45,630 --> 00:46:48,970 and he was quite a force to be reckoned with musically. 881 00:46:49,090 --> 00:46:51,300 [driving drum beat and bass line playing] 882 00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:56,770 I was very much in love with John's right foot. 883 00:46:57,310 --> 00:47:00,150 [chuckles] I had great respect for it. 884 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,230 And I used to try and highlight it 885 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:04,780 and help it along and... 886 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,650 give it space. [chuckles] 887 00:47:08,030 --> 00:47:09,450 [Jones] Uh, take three. 888 00:47:09,570 --> 00:47:12,370 So I could be doing a riff and just leave a note out 889 00:47:12,490 --> 00:47:14,540 and something of his would pop through 890 00:47:14,660 --> 00:47:17,330 and the rhythm would just suddenly come alive. 891 00:47:17,790 --> 00:47:19,170 [click, whirring] 892 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:25,170 ["Good Times Bad Times" by Led Zeppelin playing] 893 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:26,510 [tapping on drum's rim] 894 00:47:26,630 --> 00:47:28,050 [two-beat guitar chord reverberates] 895 00:47:28,170 --> 00:47:29,380 [tapping on cowbell] 896 00:47:29,510 --> 00:47:31,550 - [guitar rhythm repeats] - [tapping continues] 897 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,826 - [guitar rhythm repeats] - [drum line picks up] 898 00:47:33,850 --> 00:47:36,310 ♪ In the days of my youth ♪ 899 00:47:36,390 --> 00:47:40,310 ♪ I was told what it means to be a man ♪ 900 00:47:44,690 --> 00:47:46,070 ♪ And now I've reached that age ♪ 901 00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:51,200 ♪ I've tried to do all those things the best I can ♪ 902 00:47:55,030 --> 00:47:56,676 {\an8}♪ No matter how I try 903 00:47:56,700 --> 00:48:01,330 {\an8}♪ I find my way to the same old jam ♪ 904 00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:07,510 ♪ Good times, bad times 905 00:48:07,590 --> 00:48:09,340 ♪ You know I've had my share ♪ 906 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,390 ♪ When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man ♪ 907 00:48:12,510 --> 00:48:15,680 ♪ Well, I still don't seem to care ♪ 908 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,810 {\an8}♪ Sixteen I fell in love 909 00:48:19,890 --> 00:48:22,230 {\an8}♪ With a girl as sweet as could be ♪ 910 00:48:22,730 --> 00:48:25,230 {\an8}♪ It only took a couple of days ♪ 911 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,626 {\an8}♪ 'Til she was rid of me ♪ 912 00:48:27,650 --> 00:48:30,240 ♪ She swore that she would be all mine ♪ 913 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,756 ♪ And love me 'til the end ♪ 914 00:48:32,780 --> 00:48:35,216 ♪ But when I whispered in her ear ♪ 915 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:37,490 ♪ I lost another friend ♪ 916 00:48:37,580 --> 00:48:40,370 ♪ Oh, good times, bad times ♪ 917 00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:42,556 ♪ You know I've had my share ♪ 918 00:48:42,580 --> 00:48:45,420 ♪ When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man ♪ 919 00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:48,460 ♪ Well, I still don't seem to care... ♪ 920 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,930 [intense, powerful guitar solo playing] 921 00:49:10,780 --> 00:49:13,070 ♪ Good times, bad times 922 00:49:13,150 --> 00:49:15,280 {\an8}♪ You know I've had my share ♪ 923 00:49:15,450 --> 00:49:17,910 {\an8}♪ When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man ♪ 924 00:49:17,990 --> 00:49:21,120 {\an8}♪ But I still don't seem to care ♪ 925 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,250 {\an8}[funky, up-tempo bass line playing] 926 00:49:23,370 --> 00:49:26,290 {\an8}[guitar solo resumes] 927 00:49:28,590 --> 00:49:31,760 {\an8}♪ I know what it means to be alone ♪ 928 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:37,430 ♪ I sure do wish I was at home ♪ 929 00:49:38,810 --> 00:49:42,390 ♪ I don't care what the neighbors say ♪ 930 00:49:43,690 --> 00:49:48,480 ♪ I'm gonna love you each and every day ♪ 931 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,780 ♪ You can feel the beat within my heart ♪ 932 00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,030 ♪ Realize, sweet babe, we ain't ever gonna part ♪ 933 00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:05,330 [song fades out] 934 00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:07,686 I was gonna throw everything I could at it. 935 00:50:07,710 --> 00:50:09,960 I was gonna play acoustic guitar, 936 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,260 I played pedal steel guitar, 937 00:50:12,340 --> 00:50:14,510 I played slide guitar, electric guitar. 938 00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:17,800 {\an8}I wanted to have so many different textures 939 00:50:17,970 --> 00:50:18,850 {\an8}and moods on it, 940 00:50:18,970 --> 00:50:20,470 {\an8}that the whole album 941 00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,680 {\an8}would just totally arrest the listeners 942 00:50:23,810 --> 00:50:28,810 {\an8}and take them to a realm that they hadn't been in before. 943 00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:30,610 The guitar's not on a regular tuning 944 00:50:30,730 --> 00:50:32,030 on "Black Mountain Side." 945 00:50:32,190 --> 00:50:33,820 It is very much like a sitar tuning. 946 00:50:33,940 --> 00:50:36,990 {\an8}["Black Mountain Side" by Led Zeppelin playing] 947 00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,240 {\an8}[Plant] Jimmy and John Paul 948 00:50:41,370 --> 00:50:43,410 {\an8}were really at the top of their game. 949 00:50:43,490 --> 00:50:46,370 They'd played on so many diverse pieces of music 950 00:50:47,210 --> 00:50:49,540 that there was nowhere that they couldn't find themselves 951 00:50:49,670 --> 00:50:50,960 comfortably going to. 952 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,760 So that gave us a whole magnificent bunch of colors 953 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:55,670 to play with. 954 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,010 [bright, up-tempo melody playing] 955 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,940 [playing intensifies, quickens] 956 00:51:40,260 --> 00:51:43,600 [melody slows slightly, remains sprightly and bright] 957 00:52:09,830 --> 00:52:12,460 [strums final gentle chord] 958 00:52:15,750 --> 00:52:17,340 [Bonham] Jimmy produced the album. 959 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,010 Which is great because it's got a different sound 960 00:52:20,090 --> 00:52:21,300 and I like that. 961 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:23,890 He had all these ideas of microphone placement 962 00:52:23,970 --> 00:52:27,680 to get distance, so he knew what he wanted to hear. 963 00:52:27,770 --> 00:52:29,770 [Page] There were some really complex things 964 00:52:29,850 --> 00:52:31,666 that went on during the mixing, 965 00:52:31,690 --> 00:52:34,980 like the backwards echo that comes in "You Shook Me." 966 00:52:35,060 --> 00:52:37,730 When you turn the tape round and apply the echo 967 00:52:37,860 --> 00:52:39,360 and then turn it back over 968 00:52:39,490 --> 00:52:41,570 and then you get the echo coming in reverse. 969 00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:45,660 [echoing vocalization] ♪ All night ♪ 970 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:50,710 [echoing vocalization] 971 00:52:50,790 --> 00:52:54,540 [psychedelic guitar melody playing] 972 00:52:54,670 --> 00:52:57,340 [Page] I was cross-fading from one song into another 973 00:52:57,500 --> 00:52:58,856 and all these sort of tricks, 974 00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,130 so that when people listened to the whole album, 975 00:53:01,260 --> 00:53:04,430 as I say, it would just absolutely demand attention. 976 00:53:04,510 --> 00:53:07,220 Well, I mean, it's amazing. Yeah. I had... 977 00:53:07,350 --> 00:53:10,496 I had a pair of those big quad electrostatic speakers 978 00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,230 in my front room. 979 00:53:12,350 --> 00:53:14,400 You could sort of sit almost in them. 980 00:53:14,810 --> 00:53:16,770 I just used to play it loud. 981 00:53:17,150 --> 00:53:20,400 ["Your Time Is Gonna Come" by Led Zeppelin playing] 982 00:53:34,540 --> 00:53:37,566 If you finance the album yourself, 983 00:53:37,590 --> 00:53:39,500 you're in a much better position 984 00:53:39,590 --> 00:53:42,420 than if you're going in with, like, a demo tape. 985 00:53:42,550 --> 00:53:44,010 So, if you knew what you were doing, 986 00:53:44,130 --> 00:53:47,680 it made sense to complete the album 987 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,220 and then go round and do a deal. 988 00:53:50,350 --> 00:53:52,890 [dramatic electric organ melody playing] 989 00:53:54,270 --> 00:53:55,940 The American producer Bert Berns 990 00:53:56,060 --> 00:53:59,916 had really done a great PR job for me at Atlantic Records. 991 00:53:59,940 --> 00:54:02,820 When he took me there in 1964, 992 00:54:02,940 --> 00:54:05,660 and I said we should aim at Atlantic... 993 00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:07,636 so that's what we did. 994 00:54:07,660 --> 00:54:09,830 ["Your Time Is Gonna Come" by Led Zeppelin playing] 995 00:54:16,210 --> 00:54:17,330 [Jones] Yeah. 996 00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:18,790 Yeah. We'd done our bit, 997 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,090 and Jimmy and Peter were going to convince people 998 00:54:21,210 --> 00:54:23,130 that they really needed it. [chuckles] 999 00:54:23,210 --> 00:54:26,630 Jimmy had the kind of keys to the beginnings of a kingdom. 1000 00:54:27,130 --> 00:54:29,550 And he went off to New York with Peter 1001 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,060 and through them, they got to see Jerry Wexler. 1002 00:54:32,180 --> 00:54:35,640 {\an8}♪ Messin' around every guy in town ♪ 1003 00:54:35,770 --> 00:54:40,270 {\an8}♪ Puttin' me down for thinkin' of someone new ♪ 1004 00:54:45,190 --> 00:54:48,450 ♪ Always the same playin' your game ♪ 1005 00:54:48,530 --> 00:54:49,910 {\an8}♪ Drive me insane ♪ 1006 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,120 {\an8}♪ Trouble is gonna come to you ♪ 1007 00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,080 ♪ One of these days and it won't be long... ♪ 1008 00:55:00,210 --> 00:55:02,380 We put it on, and that was a great moment 1009 00:55:02,460 --> 00:55:05,130 to actually be able to play it, regardless of what they thought, 1010 00:55:05,210 --> 00:55:09,616 to actually be playing it to, you know, Jerry Wexler. 1011 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,720 {\an8}[song continues] 1012 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:16,180 {\an8}♪ Your time is gonna come ♪ 1013 00:55:18,100 --> 00:55:22,190 ♪ Your time is gonna come 1014 00:55:24,530 --> 00:55:28,820 ♪ Your time is gonna come 1015 00:55:30,820 --> 00:55:34,990 ♪ Your time is gonna come... 1016 00:55:37,830 --> 00:55:40,370 [Page] Atlantic wasn't allowed to remix anything. 1017 00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:41,790 It was perfect. It was done. 1018 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,550 The sequencing was perfect. There was nothing... 1019 00:55:44,670 --> 00:55:46,710 Certainly no single's gonna be taken off it. 1020 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,340 ♪ It's my turn to cry... ♪ 1021 00:55:49,510 --> 00:55:52,890 Having seen a situation whereby singles 1022 00:55:53,010 --> 00:55:55,140 have broken the spirit of a band, 1023 00:55:55,220 --> 00:55:57,890 I didn't want it to break the spirit of this band. 1024 00:55:58,020 --> 00:56:01,810 And I made a point of saying we're an album band, 1025 00:56:01,940 --> 00:56:03,860 we're not doing singles. 1026 00:56:04,570 --> 00:56:07,610 We could call the shots because we owned the album. 1027 00:56:07,990 --> 00:56:10,740 ♪ Don't care what you say 'cause I'm goin' away to stay ♪ 1028 00:56:10,820 --> 00:56:12,490 ♪ Gonna make you pay... ♪ 1029 00:56:12,570 --> 00:56:15,176 And here I am, signing a contract. 1030 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,290 Then there's Peter, looking really cool. 1031 00:56:18,370 --> 00:56:20,710 Looking quite like a Mafia don. 1032 00:56:20,870 --> 00:56:22,356 ♪ People talkin' all around ♪ 1033 00:56:22,380 --> 00:56:24,710 {\an8}♪ Watch out, woman, no longer ♪ 1034 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,210 {\an8}♪ Is the joke gonna be on my heart ♪ 1035 00:56:30,590 --> 00:56:31,760 {\an8}♪ You been bad to me, woman 1036 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,680 {\an8}♪ But it's coming back home to you ♪ 1037 00:56:34,050 --> 00:56:38,180 ♪ Your time is gonna come... ♪ 1038 00:56:40,350 --> 00:56:42,190 [Jones] Peter Grant and Jimmy had fixed it 1039 00:56:42,350 --> 00:56:47,110 so that Atlantic had no say in what we did whatsoever. 1040 00:56:48,110 --> 00:56:50,610 They went there saying, "Look, you want this band, 1041 00:56:50,740 --> 00:56:52,530 and we're gonna give you the music." 1042 00:56:52,610 --> 00:56:53,910 But... 1043 00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:57,370 Peter Grant wouldn't let any record executives 1044 00:56:57,450 --> 00:56:59,450 anywhere near the studio. 1045 00:56:59,580 --> 00:57:01,000 Or the band. 1046 00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,210 They were terrified of him, which was brilliant. 1047 00:57:03,330 --> 00:57:05,790 To have that freedom, I mean, it was unheard of. 1048 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:10,590 ♪ Your time is gonna come... ♪ 1049 00:57:10,710 --> 00:57:12,736 [Bonham] Rather than keep The Yardbirds name, 1050 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,140 the group became strong enough to start fresh, 1051 00:57:15,260 --> 00:57:17,116 and it was a decision that we'd change the name. 1052 00:57:17,140 --> 00:57:19,100 [Page] Keith Moon had suggested a name, 1053 00:57:19,270 --> 00:57:20,270 Led Zeppelin. 1054 00:57:20,390 --> 00:57:22,786 I thought that'd be a great name to use. 1055 00:57:22,810 --> 00:57:25,600 I thought, "Yeah. That's a terrible name. 1056 00:57:25,730 --> 00:57:28,070 Nobody's gonna remember that." [chuckles] 1057 00:57:28,940 --> 00:57:30,690 But I couldn't come up with a better one 1058 00:57:30,820 --> 00:57:32,360 so Led Zeppelin we were. 1059 00:57:34,990 --> 00:57:38,450 {\an8}[Plant] So, suddenly I was a dad and I was nearly married. 1060 00:57:39,030 --> 00:57:41,410 {\an8}And I was in this group that was now gonna be called 1061 00:57:41,580 --> 00:57:42,710 {\an8}Led Zeppelin. 1062 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,290 So I went back to my parents with an open heart. 1063 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:48,790 I called up my mum and dad and said, 1064 00:57:49,130 --> 00:57:52,510 "You might like to meet your possible, 1065 00:57:52,630 --> 00:57:55,800 most probable, daughter-in-law-to-be." 1066 00:57:55,930 --> 00:57:57,800 And so, of course, 1067 00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:00,390 they opened the door. 1068 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,326 November the 9th, 1968, 1069 00:58:06,350 --> 00:58:08,520 we played Middle Earth. 1070 00:58:08,650 --> 00:58:12,546 And just to celebrate the fact that we did that gig, 1071 00:58:12,570 --> 00:58:13,940 I got married on the same day. 1072 00:58:14,530 --> 00:58:17,910 Trying to get as many things in in a day as I can. 1073 00:58:18,910 --> 00:58:20,700 The car broke down on the way to the gig. 1074 00:58:20,830 --> 00:58:22,200 All that stuff, you know. 1075 00:58:22,290 --> 00:58:24,410 [Jones] We'd figured out what we were gonna play 1076 00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:25,790 and how we were gonna play it. 1077 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,356 The first three numbers were just bam, bam, bam. 1078 00:58:28,380 --> 00:58:31,976 You could see people going, "What on Earth is going on?" 1079 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,340 ["Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1080 00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:47,876 ♪ Hey, girl 1081 00:58:47,900 --> 00:58:50,230 ♪ Stop what you're doing ♪ 1082 00:58:51,070 --> 00:58:53,086 ♪ Hey, girl 1083 00:58:53,110 --> 00:58:55,440 ♪ You'll drive me to ruin ♪ 1084 00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:00,240 ♪ I don't know what it is about you that I like so much ♪ 1085 00:59:01,740 --> 00:59:03,716 ♪ Won't you let me hold you 1086 00:59:03,740 --> 00:59:06,160 ♪ Let me feel your loving touch ♪ 1087 00:59:07,290 --> 00:59:09,880 ♪ Communication breakdown 1088 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:11,710 ♪ It's always the same ♪ 1089 00:59:12,380 --> 00:59:15,460 ♪ I'm having a nervous breakdown ♪ 1090 00:59:15,550 --> 00:59:18,840 ♪ Drive me insane ♪ 1091 00:59:22,050 --> 00:59:24,220 ♪ Hey, girl 1092 00:59:24,390 --> 00:59:26,430 ♪ I got something you ought to know ♪ 1093 00:59:27,730 --> 00:59:32,270 ♪ Oh, my baby, I wanna tell you I love you so ♪ 1094 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:37,440 ♪ I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah ♪ 1095 00:59:38,740 --> 00:59:40,740 ♪ I'm never gonna let you go 1096 00:59:40,860 --> 00:59:42,450 ♪ 'Cause I like your charms ♪ 1097 00:59:43,740 --> 00:59:46,450 ♪ Communication breakdown 1098 00:59:46,540 --> 00:59:48,540 ♪ It's always the same ♪ 1099 00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,766 ♪ I'm having a nervous breakdown ♪ 1100 00:59:51,790 --> 00:59:56,130 ♪ Drive me insane ♪ 1101 00:59:56,210 --> 00:59:58,420 [intense, driving guitar solo playing] 1102 01:00:12,060 --> 01:00:15,230 [song continues] 1103 01:00:27,330 --> 01:00:29,790 ♪ Communication breakdown 1104 01:00:30,290 --> 01:00:32,606 ♪ It's always the same ♪ 1105 01:00:32,630 --> 01:00:35,130 ♪ I'm having a nervous breakdown ♪ 1106 01:00:35,290 --> 01:00:37,590 ♪ Drive me insane ♪ 1107 01:00:37,670 --> 01:00:38,880 ♪ Oh ♪ 1108 01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:46,430 [psychedelic rock guitar solo playing] 1109 01:01:02,490 --> 01:01:06,370 [Plant scats, vocalizes] 1110 01:01:07,870 --> 01:01:09,450 [scats] 1111 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,340 ♪ Oh, yes, I wanna know, baby 1112 01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,196 [Plant continues indistinctly] 1113 01:01:23,220 --> 01:01:26,550 - [song ends] - [applause] 1114 01:01:30,350 --> 01:01:32,036 [Bonham] It's a funny thing. 1115 01:01:32,060 --> 01:01:33,640 You couldn't play big gigs in England. 1116 01:01:33,770 --> 01:01:36,520 You'd say, "Do you want to take some dates on Led Zeppelin?" 1117 01:01:36,650 --> 01:01:38,070 and all this sort of thing. 1118 01:01:38,190 --> 01:01:41,070 People wouldn't even book the band. 1119 01:01:41,150 --> 01:01:43,240 [Page] So Atlantic decided that 1120 01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,490 the record is going to come out on the 12th of January, 1121 01:01:46,620 --> 01:01:48,120 but only in America. 1122 01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:51,580 So Peter gets a tour together for us. 1123 01:01:52,660 --> 01:01:55,016 It was Christmas Eve, I think, we had to leave. 1124 01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,210 [Bonham] You suddenly find the album's coming out 1125 01:01:57,330 --> 01:01:59,920 so we sort of had to go to America to play. 1126 01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,840 I was concerned I wouldn't feel home there at all. 1127 01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,720 [Plant] Pat kept saying, "Told you not to work with him." 1128 01:02:07,850 --> 01:02:11,270 But she and my wife Maureen were really good friends, 1129 01:02:11,390 --> 01:02:15,230 so they had the mutual overview of celebration 1130 01:02:15,390 --> 01:02:18,360 for what John was doing and what I was doing. 1131 01:02:18,810 --> 01:02:20,400 We just rolled with it. 1132 01:02:21,780 --> 01:02:25,610 {\an8}Going to America was my dream, for every reason. 1133 01:02:25,700 --> 01:02:29,580 {\an8}♪ You know I'm gonna leave you ♪ 1134 01:02:29,660 --> 01:02:32,750 {\an8}["Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1135 01:02:34,620 --> 01:02:38,710 [Page] We're supporting Vanilla Fudge to begin with, 1136 01:02:38,790 --> 01:02:42,420 and they were the only group that took us under their wing. 1137 01:02:44,010 --> 01:02:46,066 {\an8}[Bonham] They're good friends, because they were friends 1138 01:02:46,090 --> 01:02:47,800 {\an8}when we had nothing, you know? 1139 01:02:49,220 --> 01:02:51,050 {\an8}[Plant] Carmine and John Bonham picked up 1140 01:02:51,140 --> 01:02:52,680 {\an8}such a great repartee. 1141 01:02:52,810 --> 01:02:56,310 {\an8}They used to watch and mimic each other, play little parts. 1142 01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,310 It was a great exchange of energies between everybody. 1143 01:03:02,270 --> 01:03:03,940 [Jones] Denver was the first show. 1144 01:03:04,490 --> 01:03:06,240 Like playing in an aircraft hangar. 1145 01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,176 [Page] There wasn't that many people there either. 1146 01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:09,660 I thought, "Oh, boy." 1147 01:03:09,740 --> 01:03:13,136 But I said, "Look, let's just group together 1148 01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:15,290 as though we're playing in a club, 1149 01:03:15,370 --> 01:03:18,460 and just play to each other. 1150 01:03:18,580 --> 01:03:20,000 Don't worry about whether the place 1151 01:03:20,130 --> 01:03:21,606 is half or totally full. 1152 01:03:21,630 --> 01:03:24,670 Let's just play for ourselves to get a feel." 1153 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,800 [song continues] 1154 01:03:37,430 --> 01:03:39,650 [Page] From the handful of dates with the Fudge, 1155 01:03:39,770 --> 01:03:43,650 then we go to the Whisky a Go Go in LA, 1156 01:03:43,770 --> 01:03:45,780 and then we're going to San Francisco. 1157 01:03:54,620 --> 01:03:57,620 [song ends, fades] 1158 01:04:01,790 --> 01:04:06,800 [crowd chatter] 1159 01:04:08,050 --> 01:04:10,180 {\an8}[Page] The album is already being played 1160 01:04:10,300 --> 01:04:11,840 {\an8}on the underground radio 1161 01:04:11,970 --> 01:04:14,720 and people are really curious 1162 01:04:14,810 --> 01:04:17,536 to see this band that they're hearing. 1163 01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,560 So we were gonna go in there with a hatchet 1164 01:04:21,690 --> 01:04:25,020 and just play like we'd never played before. 1165 01:04:25,110 --> 01:04:27,400 Just throw everything we'd got into it. 1166 01:04:28,780 --> 01:04:30,700 [Plant] We're backstage at The Fillmore, 1167 01:04:30,820 --> 01:04:33,620 and, um, Peter Grant says, 1168 01:04:33,700 --> 01:04:35,030 "Well, whatever happens, 1169 01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,540 if you don't crack it here, it's over." 1170 01:04:37,660 --> 01:04:41,210 ["Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1171 01:04:53,260 --> 01:04:55,526 ♪ Hey, girl 1172 01:04:55,550 --> 01:04:57,720 ♪ Stop what you're doing ♪ 1173 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:00,810 ♪ Hey, girl ♪ 1174 01:05:00,890 --> 01:05:03,060 ♪ You'll drive me to ruin ♪ 1175 01:05:03,850 --> 01:05:07,730 ♪ I don't know what it is about you that I like so much ♪ 1176 01:05:09,230 --> 01:05:11,150 ♪ Won't you let me hold you ♪ 1177 01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,740 ♪ Let me feel your loving touch ♪ 1178 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,240 ♪ Communication breakdown ♪ 1179 01:05:17,330 --> 01:05:19,080 ♪ It's always the same ♪ 1180 01:05:19,870 --> 01:05:22,710 ♪ I'm having a nervous breakdown ♪ 1181 01:05:22,830 --> 01:05:24,830 ♪ Drive me insane ♪ 1182 01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,290 ♪ My, my, my baby ♪ 1183 01:05:27,420 --> 01:05:29,630 [driving, intense guitar solo playing] 1184 01:05:49,190 --> 01:05:51,320 ♪ Communication breakdown ♪ 1185 01:05:51,490 --> 01:05:54,296 ♪ It's always the same ♪ 1186 01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,490 ♪ I'm having a nervous breakdown ♪ 1187 01:05:56,660 --> 01:05:59,740 ♪ Drive me insane ♪ 1188 01:05:59,870 --> 01:06:01,830 [Plant vocalizes] 1189 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,540 ♪ It's all right 1190 01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:07,330 ♪ It's all right 1191 01:06:08,460 --> 01:06:10,090 ♪ It's all right, so good 1192 01:06:10,170 --> 01:06:11,800 [funky melody playing] 1193 01:06:16,930 --> 01:06:18,600 ♪ I don't know much 1194 01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,100 ♪ Just a little bit 1195 01:06:21,930 --> 01:06:25,036 ♪ I can't take it all, pretty baby ♪ 1196 01:06:25,060 --> 01:06:26,810 ♪ I just want a little bit ♪ 1197 01:06:27,940 --> 01:06:29,480 ♪ Give it to me ♪ 1198 01:06:30,270 --> 01:06:31,860 ♪ Give it to me ♪ 1199 01:06:32,690 --> 01:06:34,820 ♪ Squeeze my lemon 1200 01:06:36,030 --> 01:06:37,280 ♪ Just a little bit 1201 01:06:38,410 --> 01:06:39,870 ♪ Squeeze my lemon 1202 01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:42,620 ♪ Just a little bit 1203 01:06:49,330 --> 01:06:51,290 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 1204 01:06:51,420 --> 01:06:53,210 ♪ I don't wanna ♪ 1205 01:06:53,300 --> 01:06:56,630 ♪ I don't wanna communicate ♪ 1206 01:06:57,340 --> 01:06:59,970 ♪ Come on, hey 1207 01:07:03,970 --> 01:07:04,980 ♪ Oh ♪ 1208 01:07:05,810 --> 01:07:07,690 ♪ My, my baby 1209 01:07:08,100 --> 01:07:09,100 ♪ Come on 1210 01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:11,150 - ♪I can't stop it ♪ - [song ends] 1211 01:07:11,230 --> 01:07:13,780 [loud cheering] 1212 01:07:13,900 --> 01:07:17,200 We knew after that one that we were on the right track. 1213 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:20,570 ["Sugar Mama" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1214 01:07:29,170 --> 01:07:32,186 {\an8}[Page] Everything is traveling like wildfire. 1215 01:07:32,210 --> 01:07:34,396 {\an8}The whole thing is just building. 1216 01:07:34,420 --> 01:07:36,300 {\an8}People were bashing down the doors to get in 1217 01:07:36,380 --> 01:07:39,010 {\an8}by the time we played Boston Tea Party 1218 01:07:39,090 --> 01:07:41,090 because we were working across the States 1219 01:07:41,180 --> 01:07:44,010 from the West Coast to the East. 1220 01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,930 [Jones] On FM radio they would play 1221 01:07:47,020 --> 01:07:48,350 one side of your record 1222 01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:50,020 and back announce that side, 1223 01:07:50,100 --> 01:07:53,296 have one word from a sponsor, and then play the other side. 1224 01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:54,730 People would just listen to it 1225 01:07:54,900 --> 01:07:57,530 and they'd go, "They're playing in your town tonight." 1226 01:07:57,650 --> 01:08:00,570 [chuckles] And so they'd all come on down. 1227 01:08:00,660 --> 01:08:02,176 [Wolfman Jack] Rock 'n' roll with Led Zeppelin. 1228 01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:05,790 Robert Plant is here and I know you feel real good now. 1229 01:08:05,910 --> 01:08:07,040 [Plant chuckles] 1230 01:08:07,250 --> 01:08:09,016 I'm gonna put another caller on the phone here. 1231 01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:11,321 - You're on the air, dear. - [woman] Is this Robert Plant? 1232 01:08:11,420 --> 01:08:13,566 - [Plant] Occasionally, yeah. - [woman] Oh, God. 1233 01:08:13,590 --> 01:08:15,920 I want you to know that I'm having heart failure. 1234 01:08:16,050 --> 01:08:17,130 [Plant] Oh, good God! 1235 01:08:17,260 --> 01:08:19,050 Don't tell me. You need a doctor! 1236 01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:21,930 [woman] I just want you to know that you are so sexy. 1237 01:08:22,050 --> 01:08:23,616 - It's unbelievable! - [Wolfman Jack] Okay, dear. 1238 01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:24,946 Thank you very much. 1239 01:08:24,970 --> 01:08:26,260 - Next? - [man] Hello? 1240 01:08:26,390 --> 01:08:28,390 I was gonna go see you last night 1241 01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:29,770 but I couldn't get tickets. 1242 01:08:29,890 --> 01:08:31,560 [Plant] Oh, it was really good last night. 1243 01:08:31,730 --> 01:08:33,416 [Wolfman Jack] What's your name? Oh, forget it. 1244 01:08:33,440 --> 01:08:34,480 [laughter] 1245 01:08:34,610 --> 01:08:35,796 - [Plant] Hello? - [woman] Hi. 1246 01:08:35,820 --> 01:08:36,980 [Plant] Hi. 1247 01:08:37,070 --> 01:08:38,670 [woman] Guess what? I think you're a fox. 1248 01:08:38,740 --> 01:08:39,820 [Plant] What's that mean? 1249 01:08:39,950 --> 01:08:41,660 [woman] You're a very good-looking man. 1250 01:08:41,740 --> 01:08:42,780 [Wolfman Jack] Far out. 1251 01:08:42,910 --> 01:08:45,030 [woman] I really dug the concert. 1252 01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:46,280 I really liked it. 1253 01:08:46,370 --> 01:08:47,740 I just really think you're a fox 1254 01:08:47,830 --> 01:08:49,500 and keep on doing what you're doing. 1255 01:08:49,620 --> 01:08:51,790 [Plant] That's very nice of you. We will. 1256 01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:55,000 [song continues] 1257 01:08:55,130 --> 01:08:57,000 [funky drumbeat playing] 1258 01:08:58,170 --> 01:09:01,590 [upbeat blues rock rhythm playing] 1259 01:09:17,440 --> 01:09:19,480 ♪ Say you love me, sugar mama ♪ 1260 01:09:19,610 --> 01:09:22,490 ♪ I'll never let you go ♪ 1261 01:09:24,490 --> 01:09:26,466 The anticipation was overwhelming. 1262 01:09:26,490 --> 01:09:28,580 I mean, really overwhelming. 1263 01:09:28,660 --> 01:09:32,540 [driving rhythm continues] 1264 01:09:35,710 --> 01:09:38,000 [repetitive, staccato guitar rhythm playing] 1265 01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:42,840 [rhythm slows dramatically] 1266 01:09:46,300 --> 01:09:49,680 [song ends with rumbling explosion] 1267 01:09:57,770 --> 01:10:01,030 To come back to England with what we'd experienced, 1268 01:10:01,190 --> 01:10:03,200 I just had to keep quiet. 1269 01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:06,716 {\an8}I mean, over here, the record wasn't out yet. 1270 01:10:06,740 --> 01:10:10,120 {\an8}So I just didn't have anything to say. 1271 01:10:11,490 --> 01:10:13,460 People would have laughed at me. 1272 01:10:14,660 --> 01:10:17,250 So Bonzo and I used to get together and go... 1273 01:10:18,170 --> 01:10:20,880 "Well, what was that?" "Well, I don't know." 1274 01:10:21,500 --> 01:10:23,130 "What happened?" "I don't know." 1275 01:10:23,590 --> 01:10:25,720 [Bonham] It was just absolutely stunning. 1276 01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:27,180 You know? Ridiculous. 1277 01:10:27,590 --> 01:10:28,890 We came back from America 1278 01:10:29,010 --> 01:10:30,390 and we'd gone through a big change, 1279 01:10:30,510 --> 01:10:32,366 and feeling good about it all. 1280 01:10:32,390 --> 01:10:34,020 But it does affect you. 1281 01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:36,900 [Plant] Think about it. We're 20 years old, 1282 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,900 and suddenly there were drugs 1283 01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:41,820 and there was a lot of girls, 1284 01:10:41,940 --> 01:10:44,690 and so many characters that suddenly arrive on the scene. 1285 01:10:44,860 --> 01:10:49,120 This huge sort of sub-subculture that spins around fame. 1286 01:10:49,660 --> 01:10:51,620 Especially fame in its very early stages. 1287 01:10:51,740 --> 01:10:54,620 'Cause that's the place where you can smell... 1288 01:10:55,210 --> 01:10:56,540 something new coming. 1289 01:10:56,710 --> 01:10:57,960 It felt good. 1290 01:10:58,420 --> 01:11:00,266 As it might. [chuckles] 1291 01:11:00,290 --> 01:11:02,590 Especially as we were doing it without the press, 1292 01:11:02,710 --> 01:11:03,880 who didn't seem to like us, 1293 01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:05,720 the few reviews we did seem to get, 1294 01:11:06,220 --> 01:11:09,050 the obvious one being the Rolling Stone review. 1295 01:11:10,390 --> 01:11:12,060 I remember reading that review, 1296 01:11:12,180 --> 01:11:14,640 thinking, "Who are they talking about? 1297 01:11:15,350 --> 01:11:17,020 Do they mean us?" 1298 01:11:17,980 --> 01:11:19,980 [Plant] A lot of those writers at that time, 1299 01:11:20,110 --> 01:11:21,956 I don't know whether they were studying the music 1300 01:11:21,980 --> 01:11:24,110 to criticize it or whether they were more concerned 1301 01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,240 about the sort of social activities. 1302 01:11:27,700 --> 01:11:31,596 But do you really care about other people's responses 1303 01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:33,240 if you're playing like that? 1304 01:11:33,790 --> 01:11:35,330 Well, the answer is... 1305 01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:37,790 unfortunately, yeah. 1306 01:11:38,620 --> 01:11:41,000 That's where you can come unstuck. 1307 01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:46,170 Fortunately, as four guys, we did not care that much. 1308 01:11:46,260 --> 01:11:49,010 We were more caring about how we turned ourselves on. 1309 01:11:49,550 --> 01:11:52,640 [Bonham] The first album, it just got ripped to pieces. 1310 01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,156 Like, loads would say, "Oh no. 1311 01:11:54,180 --> 01:11:55,890 I don't like Zeppelin's sort of music," 1312 01:11:55,970 --> 01:11:57,270 for some reason, you know? 1313 01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,690 So we all thought it was a bit of a joke. 1314 01:12:00,770 --> 01:12:03,570 We worked really, really hard and... 1315 01:12:03,690 --> 01:12:06,360 people got it, and you could see they got it. 1316 01:12:06,860 --> 01:12:09,030 Then they told their friends that they got it. 1317 01:12:09,150 --> 01:12:10,280 "Get some too." 1318 01:12:10,530 --> 01:12:13,740 The venues are jam-packed, so what people are hearing 1319 01:12:13,910 --> 01:12:16,016 as opposed to what they're reading 1320 01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,000 is what really makes the band. 1321 01:12:18,580 --> 01:12:21,540 ["Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1322 01:12:21,670 --> 01:12:24,000 [plodding bass line playing] 1323 01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,170 [guitar chord reverberates loudly] 1324 01:12:32,890 --> 01:12:35,140 [Page] It was exciting to be doing these concerts 1325 01:12:35,220 --> 01:12:37,520 and being able to have this communion 1326 01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:38,770 with the four of us 1327 01:12:38,890 --> 01:12:41,480 and be able to just change, you know, 1328 01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,836 things with a sense of humor or an intensity 1329 01:12:43,860 --> 01:12:46,610 or a level of aggression or whatever. 1330 01:12:46,690 --> 01:12:49,530 And this is how connected we are, 1331 01:12:49,610 --> 01:12:51,740 that we can be moving in any direction 1332 01:12:51,860 --> 01:12:53,030 and everyone's following. 1333 01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:55,030 If the guitar's leading, they're all following. 1334 01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:57,176 I can just hold back and change this. 1335 01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:01,330 The improvisation is just at an extraordinary level. 1336 01:13:01,870 --> 01:13:03,920 With "Dazed and Confused," 1337 01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:07,210 the intensity is building. It's positively evil. 1338 01:13:07,340 --> 01:13:12,720 ♪ I've been dazed and confused so long it's not true ♪ 1339 01:13:13,340 --> 01:13:18,060 ♪ Wanted a woman, never bargained for you ♪ 1340 01:13:19,220 --> 01:13:23,020 ♪ Sweet little baby, say what you will ♪ 1341 01:13:24,100 --> 01:13:28,230 ♪ Tongue wag so much when I send you to hell ♪ 1342 01:13:37,330 --> 01:13:38,330 Uh! 1343 01:13:47,090 --> 01:13:49,800 ♪ I said you hurt and abuse 1344 01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:51,670 ♪ Telling all of your lies ♪ 1345 01:13:52,970 --> 01:13:55,300 ♪ Sweet little baby, baby 1346 01:13:55,430 --> 01:13:57,470 ♪ How you mesmerize ♪ 1347 01:13:58,140 --> 01:13:59,390 ♪ I try to love you, baby 1348 01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,390 ♪ But I don't know what to see in you ♪ 1349 01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:06,810 ♪ Every time I kiss you, woman I think I wanna spit on you ♪ 1350 01:14:06,940 --> 01:14:08,230 ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ 1351 01:14:08,310 --> 01:14:11,990 [dramatic, repetitive melody playing] 1352 01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:17,370 [dark, heavy rhythm playing] 1353 01:14:35,130 --> 01:14:39,140 ♪ I told you, baby, time and time and time again ♪ 1354 01:14:40,350 --> 01:14:42,430 ♪ I would never leave you, woman ♪ 1355 01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,600 ♪ God knows since when ♪ 1356 01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:49,810 ♪ I'll tell you everything that could ever, ever satisfy ♪ 1357 01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,030 ♪ But all you ever do to me, baby ♪ 1358 01:14:52,150 --> 01:14:56,280 ♪ Is make me break down and cry, yeah ♪ 1359 01:15:00,070 --> 01:15:02,410 ♪ I can't take it, baby 1360 01:15:03,450 --> 01:15:05,160 ♪ My, my, my 1361 01:15:05,870 --> 01:15:12,210 ♪ Mm 1362 01:15:12,630 --> 01:15:14,340 [discordant chords pealing] 1363 01:15:21,010 --> 01:15:23,850 [plucky, dramatic melody playing] 1364 01:15:36,900 --> 01:15:41,120 ♪ Mm 1365 01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:43,330 [distorted, echoing notes playing] 1366 01:16:01,010 --> 01:16:03,510 [wailing rhythm reverberating] 1367 01:16:11,940 --> 01:16:14,940 [shrill, jarring note] 1368 01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:19,150 Oh! Ah! 1369 01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:20,860 ♪ My, my, my, my ♪ 1370 01:16:21,910 --> 01:16:22,910 ♪ Oh 1371 01:16:23,030 --> 01:16:25,290 [jarring, warbling rhythm playing] 1372 01:16:39,970 --> 01:16:45,560 ♪ Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1373 01:16:47,770 --> 01:16:51,440 [pace quickens] 1374 01:16:59,990 --> 01:17:02,280 [up-tempo rock melody playing] 1375 01:17:19,460 --> 01:17:23,130 [frantic guitar rhythm over steady, driving bass line] 1376 01:17:54,460 --> 01:17:58,170 [Plant vocalizes, imitates guitar] 1377 01:18:01,170 --> 01:18:05,130 [Plant vocalizes with guitar] 1378 01:18:12,850 --> 01:18:14,100 Hey! 1379 01:18:31,660 --> 01:18:34,410 ♪ Oh, my baby 1380 01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:55,980 [slow, sludgy chords playing] 1381 01:19:08,070 --> 01:19:10,320 ♪ Been dazed and confused 1382 01:19:10,410 --> 01:19:12,660 ♪ For so long it's not true ♪ 1383 01:19:13,370 --> 01:19:17,000 ♪ Said I wanted a woman, never bargained for you ♪ 1384 01:19:17,830 --> 01:19:19,080 ♪ Sweet little baby 1385 01:19:19,250 --> 01:19:21,710 ♪ Say what you will ♪ 1386 01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:27,630 ♪ Tongue wag so much when I send you the bill ♪ 1387 01:19:28,130 --> 01:19:30,390 ♪ I can't take it, baby ♪ 1388 01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:46,740 ♪ Hey, yeah, yeah ♪ 1389 01:19:48,070 --> 01:19:50,740 [song ends with dramatic flourish] 1390 01:19:50,910 --> 01:19:53,660 [cheering and applause] 1391 01:19:59,620 --> 01:20:02,080 [Page] I knew what we had and I just really wanted 1392 01:20:02,170 --> 01:20:04,340 to knock everybody dead with it. 1393 01:20:04,460 --> 01:20:07,510 I had a whole vision for the next album. 1394 01:20:07,630 --> 01:20:10,590 It was going to be very cinematic 1395 01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:14,760 in its approach to how the music is done in the first place, 1396 01:20:14,850 --> 01:20:18,020 let alone what the overdubs and the layers are gonna do. 1397 01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:20,850 So I called for a rehearsal at the house 1398 01:20:20,980 --> 01:20:23,690 and we rehearsed two new songs, 1399 01:20:23,860 --> 01:20:25,070 "Whole Lotta Love" 1400 01:20:25,190 --> 01:20:27,190 and "What Is and What Should Never Be." 1401 01:20:27,570 --> 01:20:29,860 Jimmy would sit down with an acoustic guitar 1402 01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:31,950 and we'd work the songs out. 1403 01:20:32,490 --> 01:20:35,080 [Bonham] He just comes in and plays what we've written. 1404 01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:36,990 Then we, all together, suss it all out. 1405 01:20:37,700 --> 01:20:41,306 {\an8}We went into Olympic Studios in April 1406 01:20:41,330 --> 01:20:44,460 {\an8}and we were just really excited to be back in the studio again. 1407 01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:48,800 {\an8}My songwriting capacity's starting to kick in... 1408 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,590 because of the color of the plane that surrounded me. 1409 01:20:53,180 --> 01:20:54,526 So, with "Whole Lotta Love," 1410 01:20:54,550 --> 01:20:56,696 Jimmy had done some work on the chorus. 1411 01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:00,690 He showed me his riff which was incredible really. 1412 01:21:01,100 --> 01:21:04,310 ["Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1413 01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:16,410 And for the verse, I just sang a Willie Dixon lyric. 1414 01:21:16,530 --> 01:21:18,830 ♪ You need coolin' ♪ 1415 01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,330 ♪ Baby, I'm not foolin' ♪ 1416 01:21:21,750 --> 01:21:26,840 ♪ I'm gonna send ya back to schoolin' ♪ 1417 01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:28,710 And, you know, it was like... 1418 01:21:29,460 --> 01:21:32,220 I was finding the best bits of Black music 1419 01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:34,840 and putting it through the wringer, 1420 01:21:34,930 --> 01:21:36,260 one way or another. 1421 01:21:37,260 --> 01:21:40,430 I think there's no point in having "Whole Lotta Love" 1422 01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:41,730 and then having another riff 1423 01:21:41,850 --> 01:21:44,230 which was pretty much the same sort of sound. 1424 01:21:44,350 --> 01:21:46,900 [mellow guitar music playing] 1425 01:21:47,020 --> 01:21:50,780 So, the thing with "What Is and What Should Never Be" 1426 01:21:50,860 --> 01:21:54,216 is that it's got these laid-back, gentler verses 1427 01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:56,070 and then it comes in with, 1428 01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:57,580 I won't call them a power chorus, 1429 01:21:57,660 --> 01:22:00,120 but it's more intensity to it 1430 01:22:00,290 --> 01:22:02,200 so that you could then illustrate 1431 01:22:02,290 --> 01:22:05,250 John Bonham's power and the group's power as well, 1432 01:22:05,370 --> 01:22:06,710 the whole thing. 1433 01:22:06,830 --> 01:22:09,880 ["What Is and What Should Never Be" playing] 1434 01:22:25,100 --> 01:22:26,310 We had this tour coming up 1435 01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:28,730 and I think it's going to be really a hoot 1436 01:22:28,810 --> 01:22:33,610 to be able to record in various locations in America. 1437 01:22:33,690 --> 01:22:36,950 The idea was to be inspired by, 1438 01:22:37,110 --> 01:22:39,120 you know, the love of the people 1439 01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:41,370 and to get the reaction of the audience. 1440 01:22:41,910 --> 01:22:46,830 ["Moby Dick" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1441 01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:49,540 [funky rock melody playing] 1442 01:23:20,370 --> 01:23:22,200 [Page] It was just a joy to be able 1443 01:23:22,330 --> 01:23:24,700 to go into studios in the States. 1444 01:23:24,830 --> 01:23:27,330 You've got the energy of being on the road 1445 01:23:27,500 --> 01:23:29,330 and you're actually documenting it 1446 01:23:29,500 --> 01:23:31,170 within whatever you're recording. 1447 01:23:31,290 --> 01:23:33,670 [song continues] 1448 01:23:42,300 --> 01:23:43,600 [song fades] 1449 01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:47,560 - [cymbal crash] - [plodding drumbeat] 1450 01:23:48,390 --> 01:23:50,706 John Bonham's kit was going to be spread 1451 01:23:50,730 --> 01:23:53,206 right across the stereo picture. 1452 01:23:53,230 --> 01:23:54,940 So then you could have the placement 1453 01:23:55,070 --> 01:23:57,990 of the instruments within and the layering within. 1454 01:23:58,110 --> 01:24:00,570 [upbeat drum line playing] 1455 01:24:04,450 --> 01:24:05,676 He knew how to tune. 1456 01:24:05,700 --> 01:24:07,846 He had the science of tuning the drum. 1457 01:24:07,870 --> 01:24:09,420 So that when he hit it, 1458 01:24:09,540 --> 01:24:12,330 it just resonated out of the top. 1459 01:24:12,420 --> 01:24:14,000 It just projected. 1460 01:24:16,050 --> 01:24:17,840 And he played with his wrists. 1461 01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:19,680 It's not all this forearm smashing. 1462 01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:22,470 But he could also do an accent on the bass drum 1463 01:24:22,550 --> 01:24:25,310 and you'd feel it, you know, more or less in your gut. 1464 01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:28,430 [Jones] He was so inventive. 1465 01:24:28,930 --> 01:24:31,246 And inspiring to play with, you know. 1466 01:24:31,270 --> 01:24:34,150 You'd hear the stuff and, well, I don't wanna just go... 1467 01:24:34,270 --> 01:24:35,730 [imitates bass line] ...over that. 1468 01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,940 I want to do something that'll fit in really well with it. 1469 01:24:39,070 --> 01:24:42,360 That's what bass players do best is to fit in. 1470 01:24:42,740 --> 01:24:45,240 So everybody could be heard. 1471 01:24:45,370 --> 01:24:47,120 That was the important thing for me, 1472 01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:48,556 that everybody could be heard, 1473 01:24:48,580 --> 01:24:51,290 what they were doing, on a separate record. 1474 01:24:51,370 --> 01:24:54,710 ["Moby Dick" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1475 01:25:08,270 --> 01:25:13,770 ["The Lemon Song" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1476 01:25:27,910 --> 01:25:30,790 {\an8}[song continues] 1477 01:25:39,630 --> 01:25:41,090 ♪ Yeah, baby 1478 01:25:46,100 --> 01:25:48,680 [Jones] We just recorded what we liked. 1479 01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,770 Zeppelin always had completely different influences. 1480 01:25:51,850 --> 01:25:53,940 We all listened to different things. 1481 01:25:54,100 --> 01:25:57,900 I always said that Led Zeppelin was the area in the middle. 1482 01:25:58,270 --> 01:25:59,336 In between us all. 1483 01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:02,610 [song continues] 1484 01:26:06,620 --> 01:26:13,790 ♪ Baby, yeah... ♪ 1485 01:26:14,670 --> 01:26:18,000 [Plant] It was very encouraging to peel back 1486 01:26:18,130 --> 01:26:19,976 the vulnerabilities 1487 01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:23,510 of starting to create a writing partnership with Jimmy, 1488 01:26:23,670 --> 01:26:26,220 where we were breaking down the sensitivities 1489 01:26:26,300 --> 01:26:27,540 and the possible embarrassments. 1490 01:26:28,010 --> 01:26:30,010 Writing is a very intimate thing. 1491 01:26:30,140 --> 01:26:31,390 You expose yourself. 1492 01:26:31,970 --> 01:26:35,826 [Page] I had written some lyrics on the first album, 1493 01:26:35,850 --> 01:26:37,536 and also on the second album, 1494 01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:40,360 but I wasn't as confident about my lyrics 1495 01:26:40,440 --> 01:26:42,230 as I was about my guitar playing. 1496 01:26:42,780 --> 01:26:45,030 [Plant] I had to start thinking about 1497 01:26:45,150 --> 01:26:47,320 what do I do as a singer 1498 01:26:47,410 --> 01:26:50,120 and as a guy who's gonna bring melody 1499 01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,056 or even a story to something. 1500 01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:56,056 The idea was to inspire him through the music 1501 01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:57,250 to be inspired lyrically. 1502 01:26:57,500 --> 01:27:00,670 And then he came with these lyrics for "Ramble On." 1503 01:27:01,170 --> 01:27:02,880 Yeah, this is, um... 1504 01:27:03,670 --> 01:27:06,050 a rough shot of "Ramble On." 1505 01:27:06,930 --> 01:27:08,736 "Leaves are falling all around. 1506 01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,220 Time I was on my way." 1507 01:27:11,350 --> 01:27:14,770 That is the story of my life. 1508 01:27:14,890 --> 01:27:16,330 ["Ramble On" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1509 01:27:16,480 --> 01:27:19,560 ♪ The leaves are falling all around ♪ 1510 01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:23,780 ♪ Time I was on my way ♪ 1511 01:27:26,450 --> 01:27:27,780 ♪ Thanks to you ♪ 1512 01:27:27,910 --> 01:27:33,790 ♪ I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay ♪ 1513 01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:39,420 ♪ But now it's time for me to go ♪ 1514 01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:44,300 ♪ The autumn moon lights my way ♪ 1515 01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:49,390 ♪ For now I smell the rain and with it pain ♪ 1516 01:27:49,470 --> 01:27:52,550 ♪ And it's headed my way ♪ 1517 01:27:57,180 --> 01:28:00,940 ♪ Ah, sometimes I grow so tired ♪ 1518 01:28:02,020 --> 01:28:04,456 ♪ But I know I've got one thing I got to do ♪ 1519 01:28:04,480 --> 01:28:06,070 ♪ Ramble on ♪ 1520 01:28:06,780 --> 01:28:09,360 ♪ And now's the time, the time is now ♪ 1521 01:28:09,490 --> 01:28:10,910 ♪ To sing my song ♪ 1522 01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:14,240 ♪ I'm going round the world I gotta find my girl ♪ 1523 01:28:14,410 --> 01:28:15,950 ♪ On my way ♪ 1524 01:28:16,790 --> 01:28:19,040 ♪ I've been this way ten years to the day ♪ 1525 01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:20,290 ♪ Ramble on ♪ 1526 01:28:21,250 --> 01:28:23,840 ♪ Gotta find the queen of all my dreams... ♪ 1527 01:28:24,380 --> 01:28:28,470 I was really keen to have a lot of texture and layering, 1528 01:28:28,590 --> 01:28:30,606 certainly on behalf of the guitar, 1529 01:28:30,630 --> 01:28:32,090 with "Ramble On." 1530 01:28:32,180 --> 01:28:35,180 It has these various guitar parts that go in it. 1531 01:28:35,260 --> 01:28:38,520 There's, like, guitar rolling 1532 01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:40,890 that is moving over some of the verses. 1533 01:28:40,980 --> 01:28:42,980 Then there's the whole texture of the solo. 1534 01:28:43,110 --> 01:28:48,190 [gentle, lilting guitar solo playing] 1535 01:29:00,290 --> 01:29:03,976 It was just a joy to to be able to do these tracks 1536 01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:07,146 and everyone do their part and then come back 1537 01:29:07,170 --> 01:29:10,340 and go, "Wow. What's he done with this?" 1538 01:29:11,010 --> 01:29:13,090 [Plant] There were so many diverse places 1539 01:29:13,260 --> 01:29:14,800 that it was coming from. 1540 01:29:14,970 --> 01:29:18,470 That very fact that we were able to be intimate in writing, 1541 01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:20,770 that's the big breakthrough, 1542 01:29:20,890 --> 01:29:22,810 because it's a total exposure. 1543 01:29:23,850 --> 01:29:27,860 As a kid, my parents took me to every mystical mountain top 1544 01:29:27,980 --> 01:29:31,320 and every beautiful ruin and... 1545 01:29:31,990 --> 01:29:36,030 all that sort of great resonance of another people. 1546 01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:37,160 Well... 1547 01:29:37,740 --> 01:29:39,660 that's what that song's all about really. 1548 01:29:39,790 --> 01:29:42,210 Me, you, and the other people. 1549 01:29:42,290 --> 01:29:44,460 ♪ How years ago in days of old ♪ 1550 01:29:44,540 --> 01:29:47,670 ♪ When magic filled the air ♪ 1551 01:29:51,340 --> 01:29:54,890 ♪ 'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor ♪ 1552 01:29:55,340 --> 01:29:58,680 ♪ I met a girl so fair ♪ 1553 01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:03,230 ♪ But Gollum, the evil one 1554 01:30:03,850 --> 01:30:07,520 ♪ Crept up and slipped away with her ♪ 1555 01:30:07,610 --> 01:30:10,440 ♪ Her, her, yeah ♪ 1556 01:30:14,700 --> 01:30:17,450 ♪ Ain't nothing I can do now ♪ 1557 01:30:18,030 --> 01:30:19,700 {\an8}♪ I guess I'll keep on 1558 01:30:19,830 --> 01:30:21,080 {\an8}♪ Rambling ♪ 1559 01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:22,040 {\an8}♪ I'm gonna... ♪ 1560 01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,080 {\an8}Gig after gig, night after night, 1561 01:30:24,210 --> 01:30:27,330 maybe we had 20 songs to choose from at that point in time. 1562 01:30:27,420 --> 01:30:29,130 Soon we'd have 40. 1563 01:30:29,210 --> 01:30:32,946 We'd opened the door to America and there was a glint of light 1564 01:30:32,970 --> 01:30:36,140 and, obviously, you're gonna kick the door open 1565 01:30:36,260 --> 01:30:39,390 and go in and really... and really... 1566 01:30:39,470 --> 01:30:41,100 It's a massive continent. 1567 01:30:41,270 --> 01:30:43,390 We really wanted to get the word across 1568 01:30:43,480 --> 01:30:45,020 through performances. 1569 01:30:48,690 --> 01:30:51,320 We toured horrendously at first. 1570 01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:54,190 We toured for months on end pretty much. 1571 01:30:55,030 --> 01:30:57,660 Three of these guys had families already 1572 01:30:57,780 --> 01:30:59,370 at that point in time, 1573 01:30:59,450 --> 01:31:02,620 {\an8}and this is our fifth tour in seven months, 1574 01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:05,500 {\an8}so they were away from their children 1575 01:31:05,620 --> 01:31:07,120 for a long time. 1576 01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:09,960 It is difficult when you've got a family. 1577 01:31:10,420 --> 01:31:13,670 {\an8}I flew with my wife Mo to all the good spots. 1578 01:31:14,090 --> 01:31:15,220 {\an8}She'd come to New York. 1579 01:31:15,300 --> 01:31:17,656 {\an8}She'd just take the kids shopping. 1580 01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:19,470 Go to shows. It was great. 1581 01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:21,156 But then they'd go home and leave us 1582 01:31:21,180 --> 01:31:23,970 to get on with touring the rest of the country. 1583 01:31:26,140 --> 01:31:29,440 There weren't tour buses or any niceties in those days. 1584 01:31:29,610 --> 01:31:32,070 It was just like getting whatever transport you can, 1585 01:31:32,190 --> 01:31:35,030 get to the gig, play it, then try have Richard Cole 1586 01:31:35,150 --> 01:31:38,320 find the next venue, or even the city sometimes. 1587 01:31:39,030 --> 01:31:41,006 You could always tell, when he was like, 1588 01:31:41,030 --> 01:31:43,330 you'd get to a junction and see him going like this... 1589 01:31:43,450 --> 01:31:46,040 you'd go, "Oh no. We're lost again." [chuckles] 1590 01:31:46,580 --> 01:31:49,210 [Bonham] It's so much easier to tour around England. 1591 01:31:49,330 --> 01:31:52,186 If you're in America, you're all day in a hotel 1592 01:31:52,210 --> 01:31:56,010 having arguments with bloody turd heads and everything. 1593 01:31:56,470 --> 01:31:59,970 It does affect you, what's happened previously in the day. 1594 01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:02,326 [Jones] It was all commercial airlines 1595 01:32:02,350 --> 01:32:04,230 so you had to get up early in the morning and go 1596 01:32:04,310 --> 01:32:08,020 and sit in some airport waiting for a plane to somewhere. 1597 01:32:09,020 --> 01:32:11,400 But that's how everybody got to hear us in America. 1598 01:32:12,230 --> 01:32:14,820 [dramatic harmonica sting] 1599 01:32:15,030 --> 01:32:18,900 {\an8}["Bring It On Home" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1600 01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:36,840 ♪ Tell you, pretty baby 1601 01:32:37,010 --> 01:32:39,170 ♪ You love to mess me round... ♪ 1602 01:32:40,380 --> 01:32:42,026 [Bonham] We came back from America 1603 01:32:42,050 --> 01:32:43,850 and everybody wanted to book the group. 1604 01:32:43,970 --> 01:32:45,010 It was a change of tune. 1605 01:32:45,140 --> 01:32:46,430 [Jones] There was no publicity 1606 01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:48,890 and, strangely, you'd get to a British show, 1607 01:32:48,980 --> 01:32:51,020 "How did these people know we were coming?" 1608 01:32:51,190 --> 01:32:53,610 We figured out it was just word of mouth. 1609 01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:56,570 ♪ I'm going to give you loving, baby ♪ 1610 01:32:56,730 --> 01:32:59,280 ♪ I'm going to give you more ♪ 1611 01:33:00,740 --> 01:33:02,110 ♪ Bring it on home 1612 01:33:02,820 --> 01:33:04,410 ♪ Bring it on home 1613 01:33:05,830 --> 01:33:07,290 ♪ All right 1614 01:33:28,930 --> 01:33:31,310 [song ends] 1615 01:33:31,440 --> 01:33:34,650 ["Thank You" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1616 01:33:59,590 --> 01:34:01,970 [Plant] I just liked the idea of the stimulus 1617 01:34:02,090 --> 01:34:04,010 of travel and attention. 1618 01:34:04,090 --> 01:34:06,116 What do you know if you don't seek? 1619 01:34:06,140 --> 01:34:08,310 You've got to go and have a look for it. 1620 01:34:09,220 --> 01:34:14,440 ♪ And so today my world, it smiles ♪ 1621 01:34:16,150 --> 01:34:20,530 ♪ Your hand in mine, we walk the miles ♪ 1622 01:34:21,610 --> 01:34:26,490 ♪ Thanks to you, it will be done ♪ 1623 01:34:27,620 --> 01:34:32,410 ♪ For you to me are the only one... ♪ 1624 01:34:32,500 --> 01:34:34,410 [Plant] We were playing festivals in America 1625 01:34:34,500 --> 01:34:36,330 two years after the Summer of Love. 1626 01:34:36,460 --> 01:34:39,016 I know that really has no real significance, 1627 01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:40,750 but to me it had every significance 1628 01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:44,816 'cause I was in a place that I really wanted to be, 1629 01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:46,220 emotionally. 1630 01:34:49,470 --> 01:34:52,640 {\an8}["Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" playing] 1631 01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:58,650 ♪ Alimony, alimony paying your bills ♪ 1632 01:34:58,730 --> 01:35:01,730 ♪ Living, loving, she's just a woman ♪ 1633 01:35:01,860 --> 01:35:05,030 ♪ When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills ♪ 1634 01:35:05,110 --> 01:35:08,200 ♪ Living, loving she's just a woman ♪ 1635 01:35:08,370 --> 01:35:11,030 ♪ Come on, babe on the roundabout ♪ 1636 01:35:11,490 --> 01:35:13,750 ♪ Ride on the merry-go-round ♪ 1637 01:35:14,580 --> 01:35:17,170 ♪ We all know what your name is ♪ 1638 01:35:17,290 --> 01:35:21,040 ♪ So you better lay your money down... ♪ 1639 01:35:21,500 --> 01:35:23,896 [Jones] I can remember John doing a sound check 1640 01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:25,470 at Newport Jazz Festival 1641 01:35:25,550 --> 01:35:28,340 and I could just see all of James Brown's drummers 1642 01:35:28,430 --> 01:35:30,430 coming out of different doors 1643 01:35:30,550 --> 01:35:34,520 going, "What the... What is going on here?" 1644 01:35:35,270 --> 01:35:37,600 He's going... [imitates drumming] 1645 01:35:37,690 --> 01:35:40,770 He's going, "Oh, yeah. I know. I know who's watching me." 1646 01:35:40,900 --> 01:35:42,610 [chuckles] But it was great. 1647 01:35:43,610 --> 01:35:47,240 It's what made Zeppelin unique in that way. 1648 01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:49,410 It's just the way he approached rhythm 1649 01:35:49,570 --> 01:35:50,570 and what he did. 1650 01:35:50,620 --> 01:35:56,750 [frantic, pounding drum solo playing] 1651 01:35:56,870 --> 01:36:00,750 ["Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1652 01:36:16,100 --> 01:36:19,480 [intense rock guitar solo playing] 1653 01:36:46,510 --> 01:36:47,710 [song ends] 1654 01:36:50,300 --> 01:36:51,890 [Plant] We recorded all the songs 1655 01:36:52,050 --> 01:36:54,116 for Led Zeppelin II on that tour. 1656 01:36:54,140 --> 01:36:56,140 It was like a kind of hurricane. 1657 01:36:56,600 --> 01:37:00,230 A whirlwind of energy and release. 1658 01:37:01,190 --> 01:37:03,480 We hadn't really had a chance, obviously, 1659 01:37:03,610 --> 01:37:06,360 with the amount of time that we were spending in America, 1660 01:37:06,480 --> 01:37:08,990 to concentrate that much at home. 1661 01:37:09,150 --> 01:37:11,200 So we came back and actually played 1662 01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:12,676 our first British festival. 1663 01:37:12,700 --> 01:37:14,386 [host] Would you welcome, please, Led Zeppelin. 1664 01:37:14,410 --> 01:37:16,950 And, of course, you still wonder, is this... 1665 01:37:17,450 --> 01:37:19,000 gonna have any resonance? 1666 01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:20,540 Is this gonna bring it on home? 1667 01:37:20,660 --> 01:37:24,130 ["I Can't Quit You, Baby" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1668 01:37:34,390 --> 01:37:35,550 Wow. 1669 01:37:37,220 --> 01:37:39,810 [blues rock guitar solo playing] 1670 01:37:51,820 --> 01:37:57,216 [Plant vocalizes on video] 1671 01:37:57,240 --> 01:38:01,330 [song ends with dramatic flourish] 1672 01:38:01,410 --> 01:38:03,670 [cheering and applause] 1673 01:38:05,750 --> 01:38:08,380 [Page] I've seen a photograph of the first Bath Festival 1674 01:38:08,550 --> 01:38:10,380 but to see moving images of it, 1675 01:38:10,510 --> 01:38:12,470 well, that's absolutely amazing. 1676 01:38:13,340 --> 01:38:15,066 That was probably the first festival 1677 01:38:15,090 --> 01:38:16,340 that we'd done in Britain. 1678 01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:18,850 And it didn't rain, so it was really good, 1679 01:38:19,010 --> 01:38:20,270 and it was fun. 1680 01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:25,440 [Plant] But how long do you want off between a tour and a tour 1681 01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:26,900 and a tour? Not long, really. 1682 01:38:27,020 --> 01:38:29,480 I mean, we had no idea of fatigue. 1683 01:38:30,110 --> 01:38:32,610 There's just energy and power. 1684 01:38:34,650 --> 01:38:37,570 ♪ Ah 1685 01:38:39,580 --> 01:38:41,750 ♪ I 1686 01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:45,750 ♪ I can't quit you 1687 01:38:45,870 --> 01:38:47,670 ♪ Babe ♪ 1688 01:38:47,750 --> 01:38:50,750 ["I Can't Quit You, Baby" continues] 1689 01:38:50,840 --> 01:38:52,760 ♪ I think I gotta put you down... ♪ 1690 01:38:52,840 --> 01:38:55,010 [reporter] 32 minutes past the hour, 1691 01:38:55,090 --> 01:38:56,930 liftoff on Apollo 11. 1692 01:39:04,230 --> 01:39:06,600 ♪ I said I can't quit you, babe ♪ 1693 01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:13,780 ♪ I think I got to put you down for a while ♪ 1694 01:39:22,290 --> 01:39:25,460 ♪ You know I love you but you messed up my happy home ♪ 1695 01:39:27,290 --> 01:39:33,300 ♪ Made me mistreat my only child ♪ 1696 01:39:35,510 --> 01:39:36,760 {\an8}♪ Yes, you did 1697 01:39:41,850 --> 01:39:43,850 [song fades] 1698 01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:48,270 [Neil Armstrong] That's one small step for man, 1699 01:39:50,610 --> 01:39:53,650 one giant leap for mankind. 1700 01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:57,030 ["I Can't Quit You, Baby" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1701 01:39:57,150 --> 01:39:58,360 ♪ Oh... ♪ 1702 01:39:58,490 --> 01:40:00,780 [blues rock music playing] 1703 01:40:08,500 --> 01:40:10,146 I can just remember we were in a tent 1704 01:40:10,170 --> 01:40:12,000 and somebody landed on the moon. 1705 01:40:12,420 --> 01:40:13,880 [Plant chuckles] 1706 01:40:16,340 --> 01:40:19,470 I mean, can you imagine just being in America... 1707 01:40:19,970 --> 01:40:22,600 as a kid, more or less, and just looking up... 1708 01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:24,470 You got this thing going on with the music 1709 01:40:24,560 --> 01:40:26,980 and you look up and there's a man on the moon. 1710 01:40:27,980 --> 01:40:31,020 [song continues] 1711 01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:38,530 ♪ Nineteen years old 1712 01:40:41,870 --> 01:40:47,410 ♪ She's got ways just like a baby child ♪ 1713 01:40:49,250 --> 01:40:50,670 ♪ Oh, yeah 1714 01:40:56,590 --> 01:40:59,590 ♪ There's nothing I can do to please that woman ♪ 1715 01:41:01,340 --> 01:41:04,100 ♪ To keep, to keep that little girl ♪ 1716 01:41:04,510 --> 01:41:08,020 ♪ Satisfied, yeah... 1717 01:41:08,390 --> 01:41:10,810 [Plant] You know, it's a big old world out there, 1718 01:41:10,890 --> 01:41:14,626 {\an8}and I'm sure that 99% of people are far more interested 1719 01:41:14,650 --> 01:41:18,610 {\an8}in the fact that these guys got back safely from the moon. 1720 01:41:19,240 --> 01:41:23,200 But the day they got back, that was a big day for us too. 1721 01:41:23,360 --> 01:41:28,870 ♪ Oh ♪ 1722 01:41:28,950 --> 01:41:31,370 - [song fades out] - [crowd cheering] 1723 01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:34,290 That is the biggest deal 1724 01:41:34,420 --> 01:41:36,920 if you're a kid and you want to be a singer. 1725 01:41:37,050 --> 01:41:38,380 You get a gold record. 1726 01:41:38,460 --> 01:41:41,470 I mean... [blows raspberry] What happens next? 1727 01:41:42,050 --> 01:41:43,640 Doesn't matter, does it? 1728 01:41:48,390 --> 01:41:50,810 [Page] I just really wanted to make sure that 1729 01:41:50,930 --> 01:41:54,246 this album was really gonna get everybody excited. 1730 01:41:54,270 --> 01:41:57,570 I wanted it to be something that they hadn't heard before. 1731 01:41:58,190 --> 01:42:02,070 The acoustic and the electrics and the more radical 1732 01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:03,740 and even avant-garde. 1733 01:42:03,910 --> 01:42:06,120 So, when it came to doing the mix 1734 01:42:06,280 --> 01:42:07,830 for Led Zeppelin II, 1735 01:42:07,910 --> 01:42:11,620 I'd mixed it with Eddie Kramer at A&R Studios in New York. 1736 01:42:12,410 --> 01:42:14,096 I think he did an amazing job. 1737 01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:17,000 And, as was the case with these mixing things, 1738 01:42:17,130 --> 01:42:19,840 there was often more than two hands on the desk. 1739 01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:25,090 I really wanted to do something with "Whole Lotta Love" 1740 01:42:25,260 --> 01:42:26,590 to stop it being a single. 1741 01:42:27,180 --> 01:42:31,980 So it was gonna have a radical avant-garde section 1742 01:42:32,100 --> 01:42:35,520 in the middle that began with a sonic wave. 1743 01:42:35,650 --> 01:42:39,690 [wave pulses] 1744 01:42:41,570 --> 01:42:43,490 Then when I put the overdubs on it 1745 01:42:43,610 --> 01:42:45,320 for what was gonna go in the middle, 1746 01:42:45,450 --> 01:42:47,990 I de-tuned the guitar all the way down 1747 01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:52,370 and I was just pulling the strings across and across. 1748 01:42:52,500 --> 01:42:57,540 [prolonged notes and feedback] 1749 01:43:00,710 --> 01:43:02,050 Then there was lots of panning. 1750 01:43:02,130 --> 01:43:04,420 That means moving things from left to right. 1751 01:43:04,510 --> 01:43:07,640 [distorted notes bouncing] 1752 01:43:07,800 --> 01:43:10,510 [gentle, pulsing drumbeat playing] 1753 01:43:11,430 --> 01:43:14,390 [Plant vocalizes] 1754 01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:19,610 [distortion buzzes] 1755 01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:24,030 [heavier, faster drumbeat kicks in] 1756 01:43:24,740 --> 01:43:26,280 [music fades out] 1757 01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:28,386 [Page] And so that was it. 1758 01:43:28,410 --> 01:43:30,870 Led Zeppelin II was completed... 1759 01:43:31,490 --> 01:43:33,330 and ready to be delivered. 1760 01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:37,250 ["Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1761 01:43:45,170 --> 01:43:47,300 {\an8}♪ You need coolin' 1762 01:43:47,880 --> 01:43:50,220 ♪ Baby, I'm not foolin' ♪ 1763 01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:53,010 ♪ I'm gonna send ya ♪ 1764 01:43:53,510 --> 01:43:55,560 ♪ Back to schoolin' ♪ 1765 01:43:56,850 --> 01:43:59,190 ♪ A-way down inside ♪ 1766 01:43:59,690 --> 01:44:02,070 ♪ A-honey, you need it ♪ 1767 01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:04,480 ♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪ 1768 01:44:05,150 --> 01:44:07,950 ♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪ 1769 01:44:08,070 --> 01:44:08,950 ♪ Oh ♪ 1770 01:44:09,070 --> 01:44:10,910 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1771 01:44:11,910 --> 01:44:14,410 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1772 01:44:14,580 --> 01:44:16,200 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1773 01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:18,920 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1774 01:44:20,250 --> 01:44:22,420 ♪ You've been learnin' ♪ 1775 01:44:22,540 --> 01:44:24,710 ♪ Baby, I've been learnin' ♪ 1776 01:44:25,590 --> 01:44:28,420 ♪ All them good times baby, baby ♪ 1777 01:44:28,550 --> 01:44:30,760 ♪ I've been yearnin' ♪ 1778 01:44:31,430 --> 01:44:33,810 ♪ A-way, way down inside ♪ 1779 01:44:33,930 --> 01:44:35,890 ♪ A-honey, you need-ah ♪ 1780 01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:39,020 ♪ I'm gonna give you my love, ah ♪ 1781 01:44:39,190 --> 01:44:42,060 ♪ I'm gonna give you my love, ah ♪ 1782 01:44:42,150 --> 01:44:43,400 ♪ Oh ♪ 1783 01:44:43,480 --> 01:44:45,150 ♪ Whole lotta love ♪ 1784 01:44:45,610 --> 01:44:47,320 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1785 01:44:48,110 --> 01:44:49,990 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1786 01:44:50,740 --> 01:44:52,320 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1787 01:44:52,450 --> 01:44:55,080 - [extended guitar slide] - [Plant speaks indistinctly] 1788 01:44:56,950 --> 01:45:00,250 [repetitive, staccato percussion rhythm playing] 1789 01:45:04,460 --> 01:45:07,920 [up-tempo bongo rhythm joins] 1790 01:45:09,970 --> 01:45:12,640 [disjointed, random cymbal hits resonating] 1791 01:45:18,640 --> 01:45:20,600 [guitar distortion warbling] 1792 01:45:27,150 --> 01:45:30,070 [Plant vocalizing] 1793 01:45:38,950 --> 01:45:40,806 [Plant moaning sensually in rhythm] 1794 01:45:40,830 --> 01:45:43,670 [guitar distortion continues] 1795 01:45:43,750 --> 01:45:49,170 [Plant vocalizing in rhythm with music] 1796 01:45:49,300 --> 01:45:53,050 [Plant's vocalizations echo over intense warbling distortion] 1797 01:45:54,430 --> 01:45:56,720 ♪ No, no, no 1798 01:45:57,890 --> 01:46:01,140 [jarring, scratching guitar chords resonating] 1799 01:46:12,030 --> 01:46:14,990 [musical elements overlap, intensify] 1800 01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:20,080 ♪ Love 1801 01:46:21,620 --> 01:46:24,330 [distortion warbling] 1802 01:46:27,340 --> 01:46:31,210 ♪ Love 1803 01:46:35,890 --> 01:46:38,890 [short, dramatic drum solo playing] 1804 01:46:38,970 --> 01:46:41,020 [driving blues rock melody kicks back in] 1805 01:46:54,900 --> 01:46:57,280 {\an8}♪ You've been coolin' 1806 01:46:57,700 --> 01:47:00,370 {\an8}♪ Baby, I've been droolin' ♪ 1807 01:47:00,990 --> 01:47:05,790 {\an8}♪ All the good times, baby I've been misusin' ♪ 1808 01:47:06,420 --> 01:47:09,106 ♪ A-way, way down inside ♪ 1809 01:47:09,130 --> 01:47:11,380 ♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪ 1810 01:47:11,920 --> 01:47:13,970 ♪ I'm gonna give you every inch of my love ♪ 1811 01:47:14,090 --> 01:47:16,430 ♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪ 1812 01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:19,140 ♪ Hey ♪ 1813 01:47:19,850 --> 01:47:22,100 ♪ All right, let's go ♪ 1814 01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:25,230 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1815 01:47:26,190 --> 01:47:27,770 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1816 01:47:28,980 --> 01:47:30,480 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1817 01:47:31,270 --> 01:47:33,280 ♪ Wanna whole lotta love ♪ 1818 01:47:33,400 --> 01:47:35,006 [song slows] 1819 01:47:35,030 --> 01:47:38,176 [distant, echoing] ♪ Way down... ♪ 1820 01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:42,790 [at full volume] ♪ Way down inside ♪ 1821 01:47:42,910 --> 01:47:44,620 [distant, echoing] ♪ Inside, woman... ♪ 1822 01:47:44,750 --> 01:47:46,290 [at full volume] ♪ Woman ♪ 1823 01:47:47,500 --> 01:47:50,790 ♪ You need, yeah ♪ 1824 01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:54,510 [dramatic two-beat chord and drum hits playing] 1825 01:47:54,630 --> 01:48:01,470 ♪ Love ♪ 1826 01:48:02,180 --> 01:48:04,810 [driving blues rock rhythm kicks back in] 1827 01:48:06,140 --> 01:48:08,786 ♪ My, my, my, my 1828 01:48:08,810 --> 01:48:11,650 ♪ My, my, my, my ♪ 1829 01:48:11,730 --> 01:48:12,980 ♪ Oh ♪ 1830 01:48:19,530 --> 01:48:21,280 ♪ Shake for me, girl 1831 01:48:22,030 --> 01:48:24,410 ♪ I wanna be your backdoor man ♪ 1832 01:48:25,040 --> 01:48:27,500 ♪ Hey, oh 1833 01:48:27,620 --> 01:48:29,830 ♪ Hey, oh ♪ 1834 01:48:30,330 --> 01:48:32,340 ♪ Hey, oh 1835 01:48:32,790 --> 01:48:38,840 ♪ Ooh 1836 01:48:38,970 --> 01:48:42,720 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ 1837 01:48:42,850 --> 01:48:45,060 ♪ Cool, my, my baby ♪ 1838 01:48:47,730 --> 01:48:49,440 ♪ A-keep it coolin', baby 1839 01:48:50,190 --> 01:48:52,190 ♪ A-keep it coolin', baby 1840 01:48:52,770 --> 01:48:54,480 ♪ A-keep it coolin', baby 1841 01:48:55,190 --> 01:48:57,070 ♪ A-keep it coolin', baby 1842 01:48:57,610 --> 01:49:02,490 [Plant wailing sensually] 1843 01:49:02,570 --> 01:49:04,080 [song fades out] 1844 01:49:05,490 --> 01:49:08,750 {\an8}[cheering and applause] 1845 01:49:08,870 --> 01:49:11,710 {\an8}[Page] January the 9th, in 1970, 1846 01:49:12,210 --> 01:49:15,170 {\an8}we played the Royal Albert Hall in London, 1847 01:49:15,250 --> 01:49:18,460 and if we're thinking back a year, 1848 01:49:18,550 --> 01:49:21,590 January the 9th, 1969, 1849 01:49:21,720 --> 01:49:23,680 is when we were playing in San Francisco. 1850 01:49:24,390 --> 01:49:28,060 So this is a whole year's progress. 1851 01:49:28,180 --> 01:49:29,930 [Plant] It was far out. 1852 01:49:30,020 --> 01:49:32,206 I mean, I was just having a great time. 1853 01:49:32,230 --> 01:49:33,400 [chuckles] 1854 01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:35,150 No chartered accountant here. 1855 01:49:35,270 --> 01:49:37,900 This is like a London concert, so, of course, 1856 01:49:37,980 --> 01:49:39,740 this is where the families come. 1857 01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:42,570 Yeah, it's like a gathering of the clans. 1858 01:49:43,280 --> 01:49:45,886 Just to go in there and tread those boards 1859 01:49:45,910 --> 01:49:49,080 was just something else, you know? Fabulous. 1860 01:49:49,620 --> 01:49:50,750 And it was our own show, 1861 01:49:50,830 --> 01:49:52,870 so we just went out there and did it. 1862 01:49:53,460 --> 01:49:57,380 [crowd cheering loudly] 1863 01:49:58,210 --> 01:50:01,420 [audience chanting] Led Zep! Led Zep! 1864 01:50:02,550 --> 01:50:06,100 Led Zep! Led Zep! 1865 01:50:06,600 --> 01:50:09,430 Led Zep! Led Zep! 1866 01:50:10,680 --> 01:50:12,310 Led Zep! 1867 01:50:12,440 --> 01:50:14,940 [cheering continues] 1868 01:50:15,900 --> 01:50:20,530 [instruments tuning] 1869 01:50:21,360 --> 01:50:24,820 ♪ And if I say to you tomorrow ♪ 1870 01:50:24,950 --> 01:50:27,966 ["What Is and What Should Never Be" playing] 1871 01:50:27,990 --> 01:50:32,000 ♪ Take my hand, child, come with me ♪ 1872 01:50:34,120 --> 01:50:37,670 ♪ It's to a castle I will take you ♪ 1873 01:50:40,050 --> 01:50:43,670 ♪ Where what's to be they say will be ♪ 1874 01:50:44,590 --> 01:50:47,760 ♪ Catch the wind, see us spin Sail away leave today ♪ 1875 01:50:47,850 --> 01:50:49,826 ♪ Way up high in the sky ♪ 1876 01:50:49,850 --> 01:50:52,930 ♪ But the wind won't blow, you really shouldn't go ♪ 1877 01:50:53,020 --> 01:50:55,020 ♪ It only goes to show ♪ 1878 01:50:55,650 --> 01:50:57,810 ♪ That you will be mine 1879 01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:00,570 ♪ By takin' our time 1880 01:51:02,820 --> 01:51:04,530 [mellow musical interlude] 1881 01:51:11,120 --> 01:51:14,460 ♪ And if you say to me tomorrow ♪ 1882 01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:22,000 ♪ Oh, what fun it all would be ♪ 1883 01:51:23,670 --> 01:51:27,090 ♪ Then what's to stop us, pretty baby ♪ 1884 01:51:30,100 --> 01:51:33,720 ♪ But what is and what should never be ♪ 1885 01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:37,650 ♪ Catch the wind, see us spin, sail away, leave today ♪ 1886 01:51:37,730 --> 01:51:40,246 ♪ Way up high in the sky ♪ 1887 01:51:40,270 --> 01:51:43,070 ♪ But the wind won't blow, you really shouldn't go ♪ 1888 01:51:43,190 --> 01:51:44,820 ♪ Only goes to show ♪ 1889 01:51:45,490 --> 01:51:47,700 ♪ That you will be mine 1890 01:51:48,200 --> 01:51:51,030 ♪ By takin' our time 1891 01:51:52,240 --> 01:51:54,660 ♪ Everybody needs it, yeah 1892 01:51:57,580 --> 01:52:00,580 [music slows] 1893 01:52:03,880 --> 01:52:06,260 [mellow, bluesy guitar melody playing] 1894 01:52:27,610 --> 01:52:30,700 [music intensifies into driving rock rhythm] 1895 01:52:54,260 --> 01:52:58,140 ♪ So if you wake up with the sunrise ♪ 1896 01:53:00,440 --> 01:53:06,110 ♪ And all your dreams are still as new ♪ 1897 01:53:07,320 --> 01:53:12,110 ♪ And happiness is what you need so bad ♪ 1898 01:53:13,660 --> 01:53:17,540 ♪ Girl, the answer lies with you, you, you ♪ 1899 01:53:17,620 --> 01:53:20,436 ♪ Catch the wind, see us spin, sail away, leave today ♪ 1900 01:53:20,460 --> 01:53:22,460 ♪ Way up high in the sky ♪ 1901 01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:25,800 ♪ But the wind won't blow, you really shouldn't go ♪ 1902 01:53:26,340 --> 01:53:27,920 ♪ Only goes to show 1903 01:53:28,510 --> 01:53:30,800 ♪ That you will be mine 1904 01:53:31,430 --> 01:53:33,760 ♪ By takin' our time 1905 01:53:35,260 --> 01:53:37,640 ♪ Everybody needs it so bad 1906 01:53:46,860 --> 01:53:48,530 [rock guitar solo playing] 1907 01:53:59,540 --> 01:54:02,250 ♪ Well, the wind won't blow and we really shouldn't go ♪ 1908 01:54:02,330 --> 01:54:05,170 ♪ And it only goes to show-ow-ow ♪ 1909 01:54:05,250 --> 01:54:07,420 ♪ Catch the wind we're gonna see it spin ♪ 1910 01:54:07,500 --> 01:54:09,800 ♪ We're gonna shake it, girl ♪ 1911 01:54:11,010 --> 01:54:13,630 ♪ Bop-a-do, bop-bop-a-do-oh 1912 01:54:15,510 --> 01:54:18,010 ♪ Everybody I know seems to know me well ♪ 1913 01:54:18,140 --> 01:54:21,350 ♪ But they really didn't know that I move like hell ♪ 1914 01:54:21,810 --> 01:54:23,810 ♪ Baby, baby, baby 1915 01:54:25,310 --> 01:54:26,770 ♪ Oh, I love you 1916 01:54:33,360 --> 01:54:34,820 ♪ Oh, yeah 1917 01:54:42,540 --> 01:54:44,000 [song ends with echoing drum hit] 1918 01:54:44,120 --> 01:54:46,830 [cheering and applause] 1919 01:54:50,460 --> 01:54:52,550 [cheering and applause] 1920 01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:53,760 Thank you very much. 1921 01:54:57,930 --> 01:55:01,220 [cheering] 1922 01:55:07,270 --> 01:55:10,190 [audience chanting] Led Zep! Led Zep! 1923 01:55:10,820 --> 01:55:13,990 Led Zep! Led Zep! 1924 01:55:15,070 --> 01:55:18,870 Led Zep! Led Zep! 1925 01:55:18,950 --> 01:55:20,370 Led Zep! 1926 01:55:21,240 --> 01:55:23,096 My dad came to see that show. 1927 01:55:23,120 --> 01:55:25,830 He was really proud, which was great. 1928 01:55:26,870 --> 01:55:30,000 Said, got great passion and fire and all that. 1929 01:55:30,090 --> 01:55:31,880 It was really nice. 1930 01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:35,906 [Bonham] John Paul and me, we get on really good. 1931 01:55:35,930 --> 01:55:37,220 I mean, we all do, you know. 1932 01:55:37,720 --> 01:55:39,616 Each member of the group, they're quite different, 1933 01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:41,970 but you find that they're quite lads, actually. 1934 01:55:42,100 --> 01:55:44,140 They're their little category on their own, really. 1935 01:55:44,680 --> 01:55:47,366 Um, it was at least the middle of '69 1936 01:55:47,390 --> 01:55:49,610 before I got to really know each of them. 1937 01:55:50,190 --> 01:55:51,940 It's a gradual thing, isn't it? 1938 01:55:52,820 --> 01:55:54,570 I could talk about Robert forever 1939 01:55:54,690 --> 01:55:56,150 because I know him so well really 1940 01:55:56,280 --> 01:55:57,660 that it's ridiculous. 1941 01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:00,636 And Jimmy's pretty shy, actually. 1942 01:56:00,660 --> 01:56:03,080 But knowing him like I know, he's really great. 1943 01:56:03,910 --> 01:56:06,436 You can like each one of them for what they're doing. 1944 01:56:06,460 --> 01:56:08,920 But I always love playing in the group so... 1945 01:56:09,290 --> 01:56:11,250 I don't need to do anything else. 1946 01:56:13,460 --> 01:56:15,776 [Plant] We got there in the first place, 1947 01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:16,800 on the first day, 1948 01:56:16,920 --> 01:56:18,680 playing "Train Kept A Rollin'," 1949 01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:20,890 'cause we were drawn to that moment 1950 01:56:20,970 --> 01:56:22,050 and it worked. 1951 01:56:22,470 --> 01:56:25,770 But all the preamble to that was just out there, 1952 01:56:26,140 --> 01:56:27,640 throwing it up in the air. 1953 01:56:28,020 --> 01:56:30,020 So why should it ever stop? 1954 01:56:30,810 --> 01:56:34,020 If you have something that you know is different 1955 01:56:34,150 --> 01:56:35,230 in yourself, 1956 01:56:35,360 --> 01:56:36,690 then you have to put work into it. 1957 01:56:36,820 --> 01:56:38,466 You have to work and work and work. 1958 01:56:38,490 --> 01:56:40,200 You also have to believe in it. 1959 01:56:40,320 --> 01:56:42,660 But as long as you can stay really true, 1960 01:56:42,780 --> 01:56:43,950 your aim is true, 1961 01:56:44,200 --> 01:56:46,370 you can realize your dreams. I do believe that. 1962 01:56:46,500 --> 01:56:49,500 I believe that that can be done, 'cause this is what happens. 1963 01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:56,340 ["C'mon Everybody" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1964 01:57:13,940 --> 01:57:17,610 ♪ Well, c'mon everybody and let's get together tonight ♪ 1965 01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:20,716 ♪ I got some money in my jeans ♪ 1966 01:57:20,740 --> 01:57:22,700 ♪ And I'm really gonna spend it right ♪ 1967 01:57:23,240 --> 01:57:27,200 ♪ Well, I been doin' my homework all week long ♪ 1968 01:57:27,330 --> 01:57:30,386 ♪ And now the house is empty and my folks have gone ♪ 1969 01:57:30,410 --> 01:57:33,000 ♪ Ah, who cares? C'mon everybody ♪ 1970 01:57:42,760 --> 01:57:44,366 ♪ Well, my baby's number one 1971 01:57:44,390 --> 01:57:46,760 ♪ But I'm gonna dance with three or four ♪ 1972 01:57:48,350 --> 01:57:49,680 ♪ And the house'll be a-shakin' ♪ 1973 01:57:49,810 --> 01:57:52,270 ♪ From the bare feet a-slappin' on the floor ♪ 1974 01:57:52,390 --> 01:57:53,876 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1975 01:57:53,900 --> 01:57:56,110 ♪ When you hear the music you just can't sit still ♪ 1976 01:57:56,230 --> 01:57:58,940 ♪ If your brother won't rock your sister will ♪ 1977 01:57:59,490 --> 01:58:01,860 ♪ Ah, my-my-my, c'mon everybody ♪ 1978 01:58:02,950 --> 01:58:04,410 ♪ Oh, yeah 1979 01:58:05,240 --> 01:58:06,950 ♪ I really need you 1980 01:58:34,390 --> 01:58:35,600 ♪ Yeah 1981 01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:41,756 ♪ Well, we're gonna have a party ♪ 1982 01:58:41,780 --> 01:58:44,070 ♪ But we better put a guard outside ♪ 1983 01:58:45,820 --> 01:58:47,120 ♪ If the folks come home 1984 01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:49,370 ♪ I'm afraid they're gonna have my hide ♪ 1985 01:58:49,950 --> 01:58:53,790 ♪ Well, there'll be no more movies for a week or two ♪ 1986 01:58:53,910 --> 01:58:56,420 ♪ No more runnin' round with the usual crew ♪ 1987 01:58:56,830 --> 01:59:00,090 ♪ I wanna know who cares! C'mon ♪ 1988 01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:03,010 ♪ Oh, don't you, please 1989 01:59:03,090 --> 01:59:05,300 ♪ Ah, c'mon everybody ♪ 1990 01:59:05,430 --> 01:59:07,180 ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ 1991 01:59:07,590 --> 01:59:09,100 ♪ My, my, my, my 1992 01:59:10,100 --> 01:59:11,770 ♪ Whoa, whoa 1993 01:59:12,310 --> 01:59:13,480 ♪ Ah 1994 01:59:22,190 --> 01:59:23,740 [song fades out] 1995 01:59:23,820 --> 01:59:26,450 ["Somethin' Else" by Led Zeppelin playing] 1996 01:59:28,660 --> 01:59:30,096 ♪ Hey, look a-here 1997 01:59:30,120 --> 01:59:31,540 ♪ What's all this ♪ 1998 01:59:31,950 --> 01:59:34,710 ♪ I never thought I'd see this before ♪ 1999 01:59:35,290 --> 01:59:37,670 ♪ But here she is a-knocking at my door ♪ 2000 01:59:37,790 --> 01:59:39,330 ♪ The car's out front ♪ 2001 01:59:39,460 --> 01:59:40,710 ♪ And it's all mine ♪ 2002 01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:44,010 ♪ Just a '41 Ford, not a '69 ♪ 2003 01:59:44,090 --> 01:59:47,220 ♪ Now you're stopping me from thinking to myself ♪ 2004 01:59:47,300 --> 01:59:48,680 ♪ The car's fine-looking, man ♪ 2005 01:59:48,840 --> 01:59:50,600 ♪ Somethin' else ♪ 2006 01:59:55,520 --> 01:59:56,770 ♪ Hey, look-a here 2007 01:59:56,850 --> 01:59:58,020 ♪ What's all that ♪ 2008 01:59:59,020 --> 02:00:01,730 ♪ There's a girl, she's all mine ♪ 2009 02:00:02,150 --> 02:00:04,940 ♪ We're gonna go all night long ♪ 2010 02:00:05,030 --> 02:00:07,740 ♪ See my baby Don't you understand ♪ 2011 02:00:07,910 --> 02:00:10,740 ♪ Every time I kiss her I'm in the promised land ♪ 2012 02:00:10,870 --> 02:00:13,450 ♪ If that ain't somethin', I'm thinking to myself ♪ 2013 02:00:13,540 --> 02:00:16,660 ♪ If I get another woman, man well, that's somethin' else ♪ 2014 02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:21,000 ♪ Oh, yeah 2015 02:00:23,170 --> 02:00:25,050 [blues rock guitar solo playing] 2016 02:00:47,900 --> 02:00:49,200 ♪ Hey, look-a here 2017 02:00:49,660 --> 02:00:50,820 ♪ Here she comes 2018 02:00:51,700 --> 02:00:54,030 ♪ Here's a girl I really wanna know ♪ 2019 02:00:54,580 --> 02:00:56,790 ♪ She's my baby and I love her so ♪ 2020 02:00:57,200 --> 02:00:59,790 ♪ My new [indistinct] that's out of my class ♪ 2021 02:01:00,210 --> 02:01:02,960 ♪ She's got some money I've got some gas ♪ 2022 02:01:03,090 --> 02:01:05,750 ♪ That ain't stallin' if I'm workin' it all out, man ♪ 2023 02:01:06,420 --> 02:01:07,590 ♪ She's fine-looking, man 2024 02:01:07,710 --> 02:01:09,090 ♪ She's somethin' else ♪ 2025 02:01:11,390 --> 02:01:13,050 ♪ Whoa, she's somethin' else 2026 02:01:14,300 --> 02:01:16,100 ♪ She's somethin' else 2027 02:01:23,810 --> 02:01:26,940 - [song ends] - [audience cheering] 2028 02:01:32,320 --> 02:01:33,450 [Plant] Thank you. 2029 02:01:33,570 --> 02:01:36,030 [cheering continues, fades]