52yrs ago on this day in music... Black Dog @⋆♬♩⋆☮⋆♪·♫⋆dj.mama13rocks⋆⚸♫·♪ 👆Misty Mountain Hop 👆 Released 2 December 1971 (US) Songwriter(s) Jones,Page, Plant opening track on untitled fourth album Led Zeppelin IV 8 November 1971 It reached the charts in several countries; however, as was their practice, it was not issued in the UK The song was included in Rolling Stone's (US) "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and ranked No. 1 in Q magazine's (UK) "20 Greatest Guitar Tracks" "Black Dog" is built around a call and response dynamic between the vocalist and band, with its start and stop a cappella verses inspired by Fleetwood Mac's 1969 song "Oh Well" according to biographer Dave Lewis. The title is a reference to a nameless black Labrador Retriever that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during the recording of the album. The song was recorded with recording engineer Andy Johns at Island Studios on Basing Street in London.John Paul Jones, who is credited with writing the main riff, was inspired by Muddy Waters' controversial 1968 album Electric Mud. He added a winding riff and complex rhythm changes, that biographer Keith Shadwick describes as a "clever pattern that turns back on itself more than once, crossing between time signatures as it does." The group had a difficult time with the turnaround but drummer John Bonham's solution was to play it straight through as if there was no turnaround In live performances Bonham eliminated the 5 4 variation so that Robert Plant could perform his a cappella vocal interludes and then have the instruments return at the proper time. For his guitar parts, Jimmy Page used a Gibson Les Paul to record multiple overdubs B-side"Misty Mountain Hop" Songwriter(s) Jones,Page,Plant The most common interpretation of the song's title involves a reference to the Misty Mountains in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The lyrics refer to the events of the 7 July 1968 "Legal¡se P•t Rally" in Hyde Park, London, in which police made arrests for m•r¡¿uan• p•ssess¡•n. The lyrics reflect Plant's quest for a better society, a place and time when hangups are replaced with individual freedom and a life of mutual support and rappor The song was recorded at Headley Grange, a mansion where the band sometimes lived in Hampshire, England #ledzeppelin #singlerelease #goat #liverockmusic #gettheledout #behindthesong #onthisdayinmusic #60s70s80smusic #ifonlyfor59seconds - @mama.rocks.13