Question for my fellow thirsty ledheads—what SAFE FOR WORK fantasies do you have about the Zep guys? Mine is cuddling and sharing a joint with Robert (backstage, maybe?) while Jimmy casually plays his guitar in the background. 🚬 🎸
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WHOLE LOTTA LOVE❤️🔥 1.21.1975 Chicago
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"Immigrant Song" was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant during the band's European tour, which opened with a concert in Reykjavik. About the origins of his inspiration, Plant said the following:
There was nothing pompous about it. We really came from the "land of ice and snow". We were guests of the Icelandic government, as part of a cultural mission. We were invited to perform in Reykjavik, but the day before our arrival, all government employees of the country went on strike, which put the concert in danger of disruption.
The City University prepared a concert hall for our performance, it was phenomenal. The reaction of the audience was amazing, we had a lot of fun. "Immigrant Song" was written about this trip: it became the first track of the album, which was supposed to be radically different from the previous ones.
6 days after the performance in Reykjavik, Led Zeppelin performed the Immigrant Song for the first time on the stage of the Bat Festival.
The Immigrant Song was performed in the film "School of Rock" with Jack Black. Getting permission from Led Zeppelin to use it was not easy. Black videotaped himself singing in front of a huge crowd and begged the band to let him play their song in the film. It worked! The track is played in a scene where Black's character is driving in a car with his students, an Immigrant Song is playing on the radio, and he starts singing along.
In an interview included on the official DVD, Black says, "The moral of this story is that sometimes you have to put aside pride and beg."
Led Zeppelin opened all concerts with this song between 1970 and 1972.
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Robert Plant & Jimmy Page performing in New York City in 1977.
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What the hell I just realized I hit 100 followers!!!????!! Thank you all, I love you all, kisses to you all.
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin as they walk backstage at Madison Square Garden, New York, July 1973 — The Song Remains The Same (1976) dir. by Peter Clifton and Joe Massot.
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Led Zeppelin, Los Angeles 1975.
Photo : James Fortune.
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Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page enjoying a little downtime on the Starship en route to Detroit, January 31 1975 by Michael Brennan, my edit of original via iconicimages
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