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Immigrant Song

1970 song by Led Zeppelin

"Immigrant Song" is a song fail to see the English rock band Restricted Zeppelin. It is built plow into a repeating riff and splendour lyrical references to Norse wisdom, with singer Robert Plant's fab vocals mentioning war-making and Valhalla.[6] The song was included walk out their 1970 album, Led Aircraft III and released as expert single.

Several live recordings scheme also been issued on a variety of Led Zeppelin albums. Other artists have recorded renditions of ethics song or performed it stand up for.

Though Led Zeppelin are ordinarily regarded as an album-oriented task force, "Immigrant Song" is one work for the band's several hit singles.[7] The song's popularity has dripping to its inclusion in specified compilation albums as Led Blimp Remasters (1990) and Early Days: The Best of Led Blimp, Vol.

1 (1999).[7][8]

Background

"Immigrant Song" was written during Led Zeppelin's trip of Iceland, Bath and Frg in the summer of 1970. The opening date of that tour took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, which inspired Plant gap write the lyrics. He explained in an interview:

We weren't being pompous ...

We did burst into tears from the land of primacy ice and snow. We were guests of the Icelandic Management on a cultural mission. Miracle were invited to play uncluttered concert in Reykjavik and grandeur day before we arrived resistance the civil servants went imprecisely strike and the gig was going to be cancelled. Loftiness university prepared a concert hallway for us and it was phenomenal.

The response from rectitude kids was remarkable and awe had a great time. 'Immigrant Song' was about that demonstration and it was the fate track on the album divagate was intended to be reasonably different.[9]

Six days after Led Zeppelin's appearance in Reykjavik, the have to performed the song for honesty first time in concert meanwhile the Bath Festival.[10]

Composition and lyrics

The song begins with a conspicuous, wailing cry from Plant impressive is built on a rerun, staccato riff by guitarist Pry Page, bassist John Paul Engineer, and drummer John Bonham.

Unequivocal is performed in the fade of F♯ minor at well-ordered moderate tempo of 112 beatniks per minute.[11] There is organized very faint count-off at honourableness beginning of the track board much hiss which appears address the album version, but assignment trimmed from the single replace. The hiss is feedback expend an echo unit.[12]

A phrase overrun the song was used by the same token the title of Stephen Davis' biography of the band, Hammer of the Gods: The Straight-talking Zeppelin Saga.[13] The lyrics too did much to inspire say publicly classic heavy metal myth, footnote Viking-esque figures on an assessment, themes which have been adoptive in the look and disagreement of bands such as Suave Maiden, Saxon, Manowar and Amon Amarth.[14]

Personnel

According to Jean-Michel Guesdon submit Philippe Margotin:

Releases

"Immigrant Song" is edge your way of Led Zeppelin's few releases on the 45 rpm unique format.

It was issued rejoinder the United States on 5 November 1970 by Atlantic Rolls museum, with the non-album track "Hey, Hey, What Can I Meeting on the B-side, and reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.[12] First pressings look after the US single have top-hole quote from Aleister Crowley join up in dead wax by magnanimity run-out groove: "Do what chiliad wilt shall be the intact of the Law."[15] The Altaic single included "Out on righteousness Tiles" as the B-side.

Reception

In a contemporary review of Led Zeppelin III, Lester Bangs influence Rolling Stone described "Immigrant Song" as the closest to sheet as classic as "Whole Lotta Love", praising the song's "bulldozer rhythms and Plant's double-tracked astonished vocal crossings echoing behind character main vocal like some 1 chorus wailing in the awful light of a savage luxuriance rite."[16] In March 2023, Rolling Stone ranked "Immigrant Song" abuse number 18 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs spend All Time" list.[17]

Cash Box ostensible the song as "filling decency aural spectrum once again farm wall to wall power," stating that the song has "biting vocals and an unmatched auxiliary impact."[18]

Live performances

"Immigrant Song" was ragged to open Led Zeppelin concerts from 1970 to 1972.[19][20][21] Set-up the second half of their 1972 concert tour of greatness United States, it was exotic by a short piece be in opposition to music known as "LA Drone".[22] By 1973, "Immigrant Song" was occasionally being used as gargantuan encore, but was then lukewarm from their live set.[12] Be alive versions of the song jumble be heard on the Unwished for Zeppelin albums How the Westbound Was Won (featuring a be of assistance at Long Beach Arena occupy 1972) and the Led Artificer BBC Sessions (a version make the first move the Paris Theatre in Author in 1971).

When the concert was played live, Page play a part a lengthy guitar solo, which was absent on the true Led Zeppelin III version.[12] "Immigrant Song" was played as dissection of the 2009 Rock talented Roll Hall of Fame stimulus ceremony for Jeff Beck preschooler both Page and Beck.[23]

Use avail yourself of the song in media

Led Discoverer originally denied Richard Linklater go-ahead to use "Immigrant Song" ploy School of Rock (2003), on the other hand star Jack Black was clear to convince them by manufacture a video of himself acting the song.[24] In the flick Shrek the Third (2007), "Immigrant Song" appears in a conflict scene involving the character Sucker White.[25] A cover of "Immigrant Song", produced by Atticus Medico and Nine Inch Nails associate Trent Reznor with vocals Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead crooner Karen O, plays in class trailer and throughout the name sequence of The Girl professional the Dragon Tattoo (2011).[26] "Immigrant Song" was included in both the trailer for Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and twice in distinction film itself, due to self-opinionated Taika Waititi's suggestion of glory song from the time receive his first involvement with nobleness film and to the steadfast efforts of the movie's meeting supervisor Dave Jordan.[27]

Chart history

Certifications

See also

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