Like how you break down the albums and listen song for song. Some albums have a couple great songs and the rest are ok. But with a Zeppelin album, pretty much every song is a great one.
One of my favorites. Your upload didn't have panning (from ear to ear) of the guitar towards the end. I can still hear coming out of the custom speakers, alternating, in the back of my '61 Pontiac Catalina thru the 8 track I wore out. Can't wait for the Lemon Song.
Funny to watch The younger generation listen to Zeppelin, They're mind getting blown from all of that synthetic music they've been listening to and then listen to Zeppelin is quite a big wave to ride. 😅
This song happens to my favorite off LZ II. Not to say the rest aren't great tunes too, but the groove on this tune struck me when I was very young.., teens era.
You asked in a previous video whether the others sang with Robert; they all harmonize on the "ooooooo"s that fade in and out a couple of times. The guitar layers make for a lush, rich tone and the bass bubbles out throughout the song. The production is outstanding. Yes, this song is about the affair Robert had with his wife's (Maureen) sister (Shirley). Robert had dated Shirley first and loved her dearly but she didn't agree with his musical pursuits so he started dating Maureen then married her when she got pregnant. They would divorce in 1983 and he would have a son with Shirley in 1991 although they never married. Robert's situation with Maureen and Shirley will come through in a couple other songs also. All of that is a mess and another messed up thing is you have this song about his affair and a couple of tracks after it, you have a song Robert wrote for his wife called Thank You on the same album! This happens again with 2 songs on Physical Graffiti.
Maybe... in Hammer of the Gods, p. 97 Zep manager Cole claims that the song is about "the beginning of a long and secret liaison between Robert and his wife's younger sister." But Davis does not cite when Cole said this. Also, Cole's 1992 book Stairway to Heaven, discusses this song with no mention of Shirley. Maureen helped Robert survive in the early years before the success of Zep. They married in 1968, had 3 kids (one died), divorced in 1982. The family was close and Robert gave Shirley's husband a job on his farm (they were all in Greece August, 1975 when Maureen and Robert were hurt in the car crash). After divorcing Maureen in 1982, Robert got together with Shirley (who was married). They got engaged in 1983, never married, had a son Jess in 1991, then Robert broke up with Shirley. In 1969, Robert Imagined going away with his wife's sister, but decided "it should never be" as long as he was married to Maureen.
This sounded just like i used to hear it in the 70's .All I had was a turntable with a 4 in mono speaker ,i didn't know about the left- right thing until I could afford a stereo years later.
Yes, I had an old ‘Dansette’ mono record player that I played all of my music on. When I eventually got a stereo system and headphones, it was like another world.
I haven't watched this yet, but I have a suggestion. How about playing Heartbreaker and Livin loving maid in one video. That way you don't have to worry about trying to split them???
This was the first Zeppelin album I bought. Their 1st 3 came out before I graduated high school. Having been fans of the Yardbirds we loved the first 2, hated the the 3rd at the outset. And even though they did good stuff afterwards the 1st 2 ate their best
He was a real SOB. He actually brought her on the tours. Not his wife, no, no no. His wife's sister. And then he writes a song about the affair. What freaking balls.
@@John_Locke_108 Allegedly he went out with his wife's sister before he married his wife but his wife's sister was the one who made him choose between music and her whereas his wife was happy to support his music career. He went out with his wife's sister again later, allegedly after the marriage broke down but the song Black country Woman would seem to suggest the affair went on before the divorce. I've never heard that he took his wife's sister on tour. Which tour was that? What is the evidence? His wife went on the first tour to the US with him butafter that stayed home to look after the children.
