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But if the flowery stuff doesn’t work for you (“The Battle of Evermore”), the dirty stuff (“Misty Mountain Hop”) probably will, and if you prefer your symphonies to stay in the concert hall, the band still sweats, pounds, and moans enough to scandalize company at levels polite and otherwise. Overstated? Yes-there are times when IV seems to exist to ask why you would overdub one guitar when you could overdub four. An entire ecosystem of music could be built on the songs here. That fans have fought for years over the album’s perfect moment (it’s “When the Levee Breaks”) is a testament not only to the passion the band inspires, but also to how perfectly they capture their own internal yins and yangs. But the real beauty of IV is as a collection of seeds, each sprouting in a different direction: gentle folk (“Going to California”) and nasty blues (“Black Dog”), the epic (“Stairway to Heaven”) and the concise (“Rock and Roll”). It hangs together well enough as an album. It wasn’t that he didn’t like the song, he said later. Support local radio, he said-we promise we’ll never play “Stairway to Heaven.” Plant pulled over and called in with a sizable donation.

When the DJ came back on, he started plugging the station’s seasonal fundraiser. The music was fantastic: old, spectral doo-wop-nothing he’d ever heard before. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Years after Led Zeppelin IV became one of the most famous albums in the history of rock music, Robert Plant was driving toward the Oregon Coast when the radio caught his ear.

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