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Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin

Artist Biography For Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin Was An English Rock Band Formed In London In 1968. The Group Comprised Vocalist Robert Plant Guitarist Jimmy Page Bassist And Keyboardist John Paul Jones And Drummer John Bonham. With A Heavy Guitar-Driven Sound They Are Cited As One Of The Progenitors Of Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Although Their Style Drew From A Variety Of Influences Including Blues And Folk Music. Led Zeppelin Have Been Credited As Significantly Impacting The Nature Of The Music Industry Particularly In The Development Of Album-Oriented Rock AOR And Stadium Rock. Originally Named The New Yardbirds Led Zeppelin Signed A Deal With Atlantic Records That Gave Them Considerable Artistic Freedom. Initially Unpopular With Critics They Achieved Significant Commercial Success With Eight Studio Albums Over Ten Years. Their 1969 Debut Led Zeppelin Was A Top-Ten Album In Several Countries And Featured Such Tracks As "Good Times Bad Times" "Dazed And Confused" And "Communication Breakdown". Led Zeppelin II 1969 Was Their First Number-One Album And Yielded "Ramble On" And "Whole Lotta Love". In 1970 They Released Led Zeppelin III Which Featured "Immigrant Song". Their Untitled Fourth Album Commonly Known As Led Zeppelin IV 1971 Is One Of The Best-Selling Albums In History With 37 Million Copies Sold. The Album Includes "Black Dog" "Rock And Roll" And "Stairway To Heaven" With The Latter Being Among The Most Popular And Influential Works In Rock History. Houses Of The Holy 1973 Yielded "The Ocean" "Over The Hills And Far Away" And "The Rain Song". Physical Graffiti 1975 A Double Album Featured "Trampled Under Foot" And "Kashmir". Page Wrote Most Of Led Zeppelin's Music Particularly Early In Their Career While Plant Wrote Most Of The Lyrics. Jones's Keyboard-Based Compositions Later Became Central To Their Music Which Featured Increasing Experimentation. The Latter Half Of Their Career Saw A Series Of Record-Breaking Tours That Earned The Group A Reputation For Excess And Debauchery. Although They Remained Commercially And Critically Successful Their Touring And Output Which Included Presence 1976 And In Through The Out Door 1979 Grew Limited And The Group Disbanded Following Bonham's Death In 1980. Since Then The Surviving Former Members Have Sporadically Collaborated And Participated In One-Off Reunions. The Most Successful Of These Was The 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert In London With Bonham's Son Jason Bonham On Drums. Led Zeppelin Are One Of The Best-Selling Music Artists Of All Time Their Total Record Sales Are Estimated To Be Between 200 And 300 Million Units Worldwide. They Achieved Eight Consecutive UK Number-One Albums And Six Number-One Albums On The US Billboard 200 With Five Of Their Albums Certified Diamond In The US. Rolling Stone Magazine Described Them As "the Heaviest Band Of All Time" "the Biggest Band Of The Seventies" And "unquestionably One Of The Most Enduring Bands In Rock History". They Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 1995 The Museum's Biography Of The Band States That They Were "as Influential" During The 1970s As The Beatles Were During The 1960s. Albums
Led Zeppelin 1969 Led Zeppelin II 1969 Led Zeppelin III 1970 Led Zeppelin IV 1971 Houses Of The Holy 1973 Physical Graffiti 1975 Presence 1976 In Through The Out Door 1979 Coda 1982

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Achilles Last Stand

"Achilles Last Stand" Is A Song By English Rock Group Led Zeppelin Featured As The Opening Track On Their 1976 Album Presence. It Was Written By Jimmy Page And Robert Plant At Page's House In Malibu California Where They Stayed For A Month While Plant Recovered From A Serious Car Accident He Had Sustained In Greece In 1975. The Song Was Then Recorded At Musicland Studios In Munich Germany. "Achilles Last Stand" At 10 Minutes And 25 Seconds Is The Third Longest Studio Recording Released By Led Zeppelin After "In My Time Of Dying" At 11 06 And "Carouselambra" At 10 34 . It Is Famous For John Bonham's Powerful Drumming John Paul Jones's Galloping Bass Line Played On A Custom-Built Alembic Eight String Bass And Jimmy Page's Overdubbed Orchestral Guitar Arrangement The Dozen Or So Guitar Tracks Having Been Recorded In Munich In A Single Session . It Is Also Known For Its Dramatic Epic Guitar Solo Which Is Considered By Many To Be Among Page's Best. The Guitarist Applied Vari-Speed During Production Of This Song To Speed It Up One Of The Few Times He Employed That Device In The Studio For Led Zeppelin Songs. In 1977 He Explained I'll Tell You About Doing All The Guitar Overdubs To "Achilles Last Stand." There Were Basically Two Sections To The Song When We Rehearsed It. I Know John Paul Jones Didn't Think I Could Succeed In What I Was Attempting To Do. He Said I Couldn't Do A Scale Over A Certain Section That It Just Wouldn't Work. But It Did. What I Planned To Try And Get That Epic Quality Into It So It Wouldn't Just Sound Like Two Sections Repeated Was To Give The Piece A Totally New Identity By Orchestrating The Guitars Which Is Something I've Been Into For Quite Some Time. I Knew It Had To Be Jolly Good Because The Number Was So Long It Just Couldn't Afford To Be Half-Baked. It Was All Down To Me How To Do This. I Had A Lot Of It Mapped Out In My Mind Anyway But To Make A Long Story Short I Did All The Overdubs In One Night ... I Thought As Far As I Can Value Tying Up That Kind Of Emotion As A Package And Trying To Convey It Through Two Speakers It Was Fairly Successful. It Has Been Suggested That The Title Of The Song Was Originally Supposed To Be Known As "Wheelchair Song" As An Acknowledgment Of Plant's Broken Ankle As A Result Of His Car Accident Where He Believed He Would Never Walk Again. Lyrically The Song Was Inspired By Plant's Experiences In Morocco Where He And Page Travelled Following Led Zeppelin's 1975 Earl's Court Concerts. Plant Specifically Refers To Morocco's Atlas Mountains In The Line "The Mighty Arms Of Atlas Hold The Heavens From The Earth". This Is A Double-Meaning To Imply The Atlas Mountains In A Physical Sense Seeming To Hold Up The Sky As Well As The Reference To The Titan Atlas And His Task To Hold Up The Sky On His Shoulders And Thus Separate It From The Earth. Plant's Lyrics Were Also Inspired By Some Of The Poetry He Was Reading At The Time Which Includes William Blake. "Albion Remains/sleeping Now To Rise Again" Is A Reference To Blake's Engraving The Dance Of Albion. The Following Is An Excerpt From The Poem That Goes With The Song Albion Rose From Where He Labour'd At The Mill With Slaves. Giving Himself For The Nations He Danc'd The Dance Of Eternal Death. Albion Is The Most Ancient Name Of Great Britain. The Line "Below The Streets That Steam And Hiss / The Devil Is In His Hole" Refers To A Victorian Tourist Attraction The Band Visited Whilst In Saint Mary Jersey. Named "Devil's Hole" It Featured A Statue Of A Devil In A Hole. Jimmy Page Has Been Quoted As Saying That "Achilles Last Stand" Is His Favorite Led Zeppelin Song. Not Surprisingly It Became An Integral Component Of Almost Every Led Zeppelin Concert From Their 1977 Tour Of The United States Onwards. Though Page Initially Expected That He Would Need To Use His Gibson EDS-1275 Double-Necked Guitar To Play The Song Live He Realised That It Was Possible To Use The Gibson Les Paul Or Occasionally A Red Telecaster One Live Version From Led Zeppelin's Performance At Knebworth In 1979 Is Featured On Disc Two Of The Led Zeppelin DVD. Page Has Mentioned That This Song Like Several Others The Band Recorded Which Involved Guitar Overdubs Was Quite Challenging To Adapt For Live Performances On Stage "Achilles" Is The Classic One. When Ronnie Wood And Keith Richards Came To Hear Us Play Keith Said "You Ought To Get Another Guitarist You're Rapidly Becoming Known As The Most Overworked Guitarist In The Business." Quite Amusing. There Are Times When I'd Just Love To Get Another Guitarist On But It Just Wouldn't Look Right To The Audience. "Achilles Last Stand" Was Used In The Film Dogtown And Z-Boys 2001 One Of The Few Times The Band Allowed A Number From Its Catalogue To Be Used In A Motion Picture. The Bridge Changes 4/4 Time To 5/4 Time And Uses Triplets.

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Frogtoon Music Album Info: Mothership

2007 Atlantic Records
Made In The UK Mothership Is A Compilation Album By English Rock Group Led Zeppelin Released By Atlantic Records And Rhino Entertainment On November 12 2007 In The United Kingdom And November 13 2007 In The United States. It Was Released On The Same Day That Led Zeppelin's Entire Catalog Became Available In Digital Stores Including The ITunes Store. The Cover Was Created By Artist Shepard Fairey. The Songs Included Were Chosen By The Surviving Members Of Led Zeppelin Robert Plant Jimmy Page And John Paul Jones Representing All Eight Of The Band's Studio Albums. In Addition To A Two-Disc Set The Album Is Also Available In Both "deluxe" And "collector's" Editions With A DVD Featuring Varied Live Content From The Previously Released Led Zeppelin DVD. A 4-LP Vinyl Package Was Also Released On 2008-08-26. On November 8 2007 A Temporary XM Radio Station XM LED Was Made In Order To Support The Album. It Was Scheduled Only To Last Six Months And Ceased Its Operations On May 5 2008. Disc One
01 "Good Times Bad Times" From Led Zeppelin Page/Jones/Bonham - 2 46
02 "Communication Breakdown" From Led Zeppelin Page/Jones/Bonham - 2 30
03 "Dazed And Confused" From Led Zeppelin Page - 6 26
04 "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" From Led Zeppelin Anne Bredon/Page/Plant - 6 41
05 "Whole Lotta Love" From Led Zeppelin II Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Willie Dixon - 5 34
06 "Ramble On" From Led Zeppelin II Page/Plant - 4 24
07 "Heartbreaker" From Led Zeppelin II Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham - 4 14
08 "Immigrant Song" From Led Zeppelin III Page/Plant - 2 25
09 "Since I've Been Loving You" From Led Zeppelin III Page/Plant/Jones - 7 23
10 "Rock And Roll" From Led Zeppelin IV Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham - 3 41
11 "Black Dog" From Led Zeppelin IV Page/Plant/Jones - 4 58
12 "When The Levee Breaks" From Led Zeppelin IV Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Memphis Minnie - 7 08
13 "Stairway To Heaven" From Led Zeppelin IV Page/Plant - 8 02 Disc Two
01 "The Song Remains The Same" From Houses Of The Holy Page/Plant - 5 29
02 "Over The Hills And Far Away" From Houses Of The Holy Page/Plant - 4 50
03 "D'yer Mak'er" From Houses Of The Holy Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham - 4 22
04 "No Quarter" From Houses Of The Holy Page/Plant/Jones - 7 00
05 "Trampled Under Foot" From Physical Graffiti Page/Plant/Jones - 5 36
06 "Houses Of The Holy" From Physical Graffiti Page/Plant - 4 02
07 "Kashmir" From Physical Graffiti Page/Plant/Bonham - 8 28
08 "Nobody's Fault But Mine" From Presence Page/Plant - 6 15
09 "Achilles Last Stand" From Presence Page/Plant - 10 23
10 "In The Evening" From In Through The Out Door Page/Plant/Jones - 6 51
11 "All My Love" From In Through The Out Door Plant/Jones - 5 51