Original subtitles

This is part of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert,

a benefit event in memory of music executive Ahmet Ertegun (1923-2006)

at the O2 Arena in London on 10 December 2007.

Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records,

is considered one of the most significant figures in modern recording history.

Released in 2012.

This is Cult.

Youth News editor,

Scott Schuster.

Good evening. It really was

the biggest crowd

ever assembled for a single performance

in one place,

in the entire history of the world.

It was tonight

and it was in Tampa.

The name of the group...

They've been around for years.

Popular with the acid-rock crowd,

big on album sales.

Tonight they broke the world record set by The Beatles,

and Channel 13's John Jones watched what happened.

Led Zeppelin played in Atlanta on the first stop of a nationwide tour,

selling out there 49,239.

That even beat The Beatles record.

When a rock group attains a stature such as Led Zeppelin,

they travel with their own jet.

Waiting at the airport,

two limousines

and a police escort.

Just 40 minutes to showtime,

Led Zeppelin arrives here at Tampa Air Center

at the Tampa International Airport.

I'm pleased to say that one of the group's four members

has my same name, that's John Paul Jones

and he's their bass player.

Jimmy Page is the lead guitarist.

Robert Plant, the lead singer,

he's the one with long, curly hair.

And John Bonham is the drummer.

If you were at Tampa Stadium tonight

or anywhere nereby,

that's the sort of thing you saw and heard.

"Good Times Bad Times"

Led Zeppelin I (1969)

Page/Plant/Bonham/Baldwin*

* John Richard Baldwin is John Paul Jones' real name.

In the days of my youth

I was told what it means to be a man

Now I've reached that age,

I've tried to do all those things the best I can

No matter how I try,

I find my way into the same old jam

Good times, bad times,

you know, I've had my share;

when my woman left home with a brown-eyed man,

well, I still don't seem to care

Sixteen, I fell in love

with a girl as sweet as could be

It only took a couple of days

'til she was rid of me

She swore that she would be all mine

and love me till the end,

but when I whispered in her ear,

I lost another friend

Good times, bad times,

you know, I've had my share;

when my woman left home for a brown-eyed man,

well, I still don't seem to care

Good times, bad times, you know, I've had my share;

when my woman left home for a brown-eyed man,

well, I still don't seem to care

I know what it feels to be alone,

I sure do wish I was at home

I don't care what the neighbors say,

I'm gonna love you

each and every day

"Ramble On"

Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Page/Plant

Leaves are falling all around,

It's time I was on my way

Thanks to you I'm much obliged

for such a pleasant stay

But now it's time for me to go

The autumn moon lights my way

For now I smell the rain,

and with it pain,

it's headed my way

Sometimes I get so tired,

Just one thing I wanna do

Ramble on,

sing that song

On my way

I got no time for spreadin' roots,

the time has come to be gone

And though our health we drank a thousand times,

it's time to ramble on

Mine's a tale that can't be told,

my freedom I hold dear

How years ago in days of old,

when magic filled the air

It was in the darkest depths of Mordor

I met a girl so fair

But Gollum and the Evil One

crept up and slipped away with her

It ain't nothing I can do now

Sing my song

On my way

I gotta keep searchin' for my girl

I gotta keep searchin' for my girl

Recorded at Juggy Sound Studio in New York on their first US tour.

Performed live in its entirety for the first time at this concert.

Inspired by Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

"Black Dog"

Led Zeppelin IV (1971)

Plant/Jones/Page

Hey, hey, mama said, the way you move

gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove

Child, she said, the way you swing

gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting

Baby, when you walk that way,

watch your honey drip, I can't keep away

I gotta roll, can't stand still

I got a flamin' heart, can't get my fill

Eyes that shine

burnin' red

Dreams of you all through my head

Didn't take too long

'fore I found out

what people mean by down and out

Spent my money

and took my car

Started tellin' her friends

she gonna be a star

I don't know,

but I been told,

a big-legged woman ain't got no soul

Now all I ask for and all I pray,

a steady-loving mama gonna come my way

Need a girl to hold my hand,

will tell me no lies,

make me a happy man

Black Dog refers to a nameless strayed black retriever

that ran around the Headley Grange (a mansion in Hampshire) during recording sessions.

The retriever was old but still sexually active

like the main character of the song who has a desperate love desire.

For this song Jones wanted to use a winding riff and

unusual rhythm changes that people could not dance to.

Jones wrote the basic riff on the back of a train ticket

on his way to a rehearsal at Page's Pangbourne boathouse in 1968.

The drums and guitar actually play completely different patterns.

A capella verses of this song were inspired by Fleetwood Mac's song Oh Well.

Page performed Oh Well with The Black Crowes on their 1999 tour.

Jones wanted to try Electric Blues on this song.

He got the idea after hearing Muddy Waters' album Electric Mud (1968).

As a result Black Dog was an example of blues rock on the album.

Good evening!

"In My Time of Dying"

Physical Graffiti (1975)

Page/Baldwin/Plant/Bonham

In my time

of dying

don't want nobody

to mourn

All I want

for you to do

is take my body

home

Well, well, well,

so I can die easy

Jesus, gotta make up

Jesus

gotta make up

Meet

me,

Jesus,

meet me

Why don't you

meet me

in the middle of the air

If my wings

should fail me, Lord,

meet me with another

pair

Well, well, well,

so I can die easy

Jesus, gotta make up

Gotta make up

Saint Peter

at the gates of Heaven,

won't you let me in

I never did no harm

I never did no wrong

Gabriel,

let me blow your horn

I must have did somebody some good

Gabriel,

let me blow your horn

I never did no wrong

I must have did somebody some good

I never did no wrong

And I see them in the streets

And I see them in the field

And I see them everywhere

And I know it's got to be real

I just wanna have some

fun

Jesus,

gotta make up

I see sinners

creeping up here

all marchin'

Won't you make me my dyin'

bed

Thank you

for

thousands and thousands of emotions that we've been going through for the last

six weeks together,

and finally get to this point,

for Ahmet,

to bring Jason in

and the double-bass drum pedal.

This is one we've...

This is a first

adventure with this song

in public

"For Your Life"

Presence (1976)

Page/Plant

You said I was the only,

with my lemon in your hand

Exhibition is your habit,

emotion second-hand

I had to pull away to save me

Maybe next time around

And she said,

Don't you want it?

Don't you want

cocaine-cocaine?

I hadn't planned to,

I did not plan

to try it, fry it

I heard a cry for mercy

in the city of the damned

And in the pits you go no lower,

the next stop's underground

Hello underground

Your wine and roses ain't quite over,

till Fate deals a losing hand

And she said,

I did not mean to,

did not plan to...

You overran it,

you overran it

Do it

Do it when you wanna

When you blow it, baby,

you got to blow it right

When you fake it, mama,

you better fake it right

When you fake it, baby,

fake it for your life

Do it when you wanna

I'd love to have you, baby,

but I don't know

what to do

Sometime, baby,

there's nothin'

I could do

On the balance of a crystal,

I'm payin' through the nose

And when they couldn't resist you,

I thought you'd go with the flow

And now your stage is empty,

pull down the curtain, baby, please

Roll up your show

Don't you want

cocaine-cocaine?

I don't wanna

fry in it

For your life

In

1935, Robert Johnson

recorded a song called Terraplane Blues.

It's appeared in a thousand

different guises since.

Maybe Johnson got it from somewhere else, I'm sure he did.

Everybody nicks it.

This is a kind of

the Led Zeppelin Terraplane Blues,

it's called

"Trampled Under Foot"

Physical Graffiti

Page/Plant/Baldwin

Greasy slicked-down body,

groovy leather trim

I like the way you hold the road,

mama, it ain't no sin

Love

Trouble-free transmission

helps your oil's flow

Mama, let me pump your gas

Mama, let me do it all

Talkin' 'bout love

Dig that heavy metal

underneath your hood

Baby, I could work all night,

believe I've got the perfect tools

A model built for comfort,

really built with style

Specialist tradition,

mama, let me feast my eyes

Factory air-conditioned,

heat begins to rise

Guaranteed to run for hours,

mama, it's a perfect size

Go-getter

Groovin' on the freeway,

gauge is on the red

I gun down on my gasoline,

I believe I'm gonna crack a head

I can't stop talkin' about love

Come to me for service

every hundred miles

Baby, let me check your points,

fix your overdrive

Fully automatic,

heat begins to rise

Makes me wonder what I did,

before we synchronized

Feather-light suspension,

KONIs* couldn't hold * A prime brand of shock absorbers.

I'm so glad I took a look

inside your showroom doors

Note the mention of heavy metal, and this in 1936,

if those are the original lyrics.

Steppenwolf are credited as

allegedly the first to use

the term in rock music in

Born to Be Wild in 1967,

described sometimes as

the first heavy metal song.

Terraplane Blues,

Robert Johnson*, 1936.

* A US blues guitarist, singer/songwriter (1911-1938).

This next song, it's been immortalized by

The Staple Singers*, * A US gospel, soul, and R&B singing family band in '48-75.

more recently by The Blind Boys from Alabama.

I think we must have heard this from...

We were in a church somewhere in Mississippi.

Written in about 1932* * In Wikipedia, released in 1927-1928.

when Blind Willie Johnson was just...

just before he had his first shot.

"Nobody's Fault But Mine"

Presence

Page/Plant

It's nobody's fault but mine

Trying to edge my soul to light

Brother he showed me the gong

My brother he showed me the ding-dong ding-dong

How to kick that

gong to light

Got a monkey on my back

I got the monkey on my back

I need to kick that gong to light

Sister she taught me to roll

My sister she taught me to roll

How to roll that log to light

How to kick that log to light

"No Quarter"

Houses of the Holy (1973)

Page/Plant/Baldwin

Close the door,

put out the light

You know they won't be home tonight

The snow falls hard

and don't you know,

the winds of Thor are blowing cold

They're wearing steel

that's bright and true

to build a dream for me and you

They choose the path where no-one goes

They ask no quarter

He gives no quarter

No quarter

Walking side by side with death,

the devil mocks their every step

The snow drives back

the foot that's slow

The dogs of doom are howling more

They carry steel that's bright and true

to build a dream for me and you

They choose the path where no-one goes

They ask no quarter

They give no quarter

The dogs of doom are howling more!

The piano, John Paul Jones.

"Since I've Been Loving You"

Led Zeppelin III (1970)

Plant/Jones/Page

I've been working from seven, baby,

mama, to eleven every night

It really makes the life a drag

I don't think that's right

I've really been the best, the best of fools

You know I did what I could, yes, you know I did

Yes, I love you, baby

I'm about to lose

Everybody tryna tell me,

baby, that you didn't mean me no good

I've been trying

I really try to do the

best I could

My tears they fell like rain

Watch them Watch out!

Don't you see them falling?

Do you remember, mama,

when I knocked upon your door?

You had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more

I open my front door, I hear my back door slam

I think you got one of them new fangled

back-door men

I've been working to eleven, to eleven from seven, baby

You hear me talking to ya

It's quite...

It's quite peculiar to imagine,

I don't know how many songs we recorded together,

but to think about creating

a dynamic evening,

choosing something from ten different albums,

there are certain songs that

have to be there.

And this is one of them.

"Dazed and Confused"

Led Zeppelin I

Page/Jake Holmes

Been dazed and confused

for so long, it's not true

I wanted a woman,

I never bargained for you

Lots of people talk,

few of them know

the soul of a woman

was created below

You hurt and abuse tellin' all of your lies

Run 'round, sweet baby

How you hypnotize

I don't know where you're goin',

I only know just where you've been

Sweet little baby,

I want you

again

Every day I work so hard

bringin' home my hard-earned pay

I try to love you, baby,

but you push me away

Sweet little baby,

let them say what they will

Will your tongue wag so much when I send you the bill?

I've been dazed and confused

for so long it's not true

I wanted a woman,

never bargained for you

Lots of people talk about it

but few of them know

the soul...

Guitar, Jimmy Page.

"Stairway to Heaven"

Led Zeppelin IV

Page/Plant

There's a lady who's sure

all that glitters is gold

and she's buying a stairway to heaven

When she gets there she knows,

if the stores are all closed,

with a word she can get

what she came for

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

There's a sign on the wall

but she wants to be sure

'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings

In a tree by the brook

there's a songbird who sings:

sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

Don't you know now

And it makes me wonder

There's a feeling I get

when I look to the west

and my spirit is crying for leaving

In my thoughts I have seen

rings of smoke through the trees

and the voices of those who stand looking

And it makes me wonder

And it's whispered that soon,

if we all call the tune,

then the piper will lead us to reason

And a new day will dawn

for those who stand long,

and the forests will echo with laughter

It makes me wonder

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now

It's a spring clean for the May queen

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run

there's still time to change the road you're on

It really makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,

the piper's calling you to join him

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,

and did you know

a stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road

our shadow's taller than our soul

There walks a lady we all know

who shines white light and wants to show

how everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

the tune will come to you at last

When all are one and one is all

to be a rock and not to roll

And she's buying

Often rated among the greatest rock songs of all time,

it wasn't a chart hit because it was never released as a single.

Plant explained the lyrics as a cynical aside about a woman

getting everything she wanted all the time without giving back any thought or consideration.

Page says that it crystallized the essence of the band.

It had everything there and showed the band at its best as a unit.

Not just solos or other things.

It was a milestone. Every musician wants to do something of lasting quality,

something which will hold up for a long time and they did it with this song."

In 1982 the band was accused of a Satanic message

allegedly heard when playing backwards the part about

"a bustle in your hedgerow".

Plant rejected this as a bizarre coincidence,

saying that you need a lot of time to even consider that people would do that.

Hey Ahmet,

we did it!

"The Song Remains the Same"

Houses of the Holy

Page/Plant

I had a dream,

crazy dream

Anything I wanted to know,

any place I needed

to go

Hear my song

So people, won't you listen now

Sing along

You don't know what you're missing now

Any little song that you know

Everything that's small

has to grow

And it always grows

California sunlight,

sweet Calcutta rain

Honolulu Starbright -

the song remains

the same

Sing out Hare Hare,

dance the Hoochie Koo

City lights,

oh so bright,

as we go sliding...

Jason Bonham, drums.

Spectacular.

Now, Jason

has...

I remember...

I can't really remember how long ago it was but Jason was like this big.

His mom,

his dad

used to sing.

There were the best Jimi Hendrix impersonators

in the whole of Worcestershire.

Pat's got a great voice.

I remember John used to be in a band in Birmingham and used to sing

The Wind Cries Mary about 400 times a night.

That was what how it was.

And Jason's a pretty cool singer too.

So let us feature Jason on vocals here now.

"Misty Mountain Hop"

Led Zeppelin IV

Page/Plant/Baldwin

Walkin' in the park just another day, baby,

what do I saw?

Crowds of people sittin' on the grass with flowers in their hair said,

Hey, boy, do you wanna score?

And you know how it is

I really don't know

what time it was,

so I asked them if I could

stay awhile

I didn't notice but it had got very dark and I was really,

I was really out of my mind

Just then a policeman got up to me and then he said,

Please, hey, would we care

to all get in line

They asked us to stay for tea

and have some fun

He said that his friends

would all drop by

Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see

And, baby, do you like it?

There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a shelf rustin',

not trying to fight it

You really don't care

if they're coming or not

I know that it's all

a state of mind

If you go down in the streets today, baby, you better,

you better open your eyes

Folk down there really don't care, don't care, really don't,

which, which way the pressure lies

So what is it I'm gonna do?

I'm packing my bags

for the Misty Mountains

where the spirits go now

Over hills where the spirits fly

Here they come, watch out

I really don't know

"Kashmir"

Physical Graffiti

Page/Plant/Bonham

Let the sun beat down upon my face

with stars to fill my dream

I am a traveler of both time and space

to be where I have been

Sit with elders of a gentle race

the world has seldom seen

I talk of days for which they sit and wait

and all will be revealed

We talk of songs from tongues of lilting grace

The sounds caress my ear

But not a word I heard could I relate

The story was quite clear

Baby, I've been crying

There's no defyin'

All I see

turns to brown

as the sun

burns the ground

And my eyes

fill with sand

as I scan

this wasted land

I'm trying to find,

trying to find where I've been

Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace

like thoughts inside a dream

Who heeds the path that led me to this place,

yellow desert stream

My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon,

I will return again

sure as the dust that floats high in June

movin' through Kashmir

Father of the four winds, fill my sails

across the sea of years

with no provision

but an open face

along the straits of fear

My baby,

when I'm on my way,

when I see, baby,

when I see the way, you stay

When I've been down

Yes, baby,

yes, my baby,

let me take you there

Inspired by a drive through the Sahara Desert

in Morocco when the band was heading to

the National Festival of folklore in 1973.

Plant, who wrote most of the lyrics, explained that

the inspiration came from the road never seeming to end.

The unique guitar riff is one of

the most memorable in rock history, developed by Page over two years.

The composition was inspired by Middle-Eastern, Moroccan, and Indian music.

At the time this song was composed, none of the band members had ever been to Kashmir.

Plant once named it as one of his favourite tracks

for possessing all the latent energy and power that wasn't heavy metal.

It was something else, the pride of Led Zeppelin.

Page and Plant recorded a live 12-minute version of the song

with a Moroccan/Egyptian orchestra for their album No Quarter in 1994.

What do you think, Dave?

"Whole Lotta Love"

Led Zeppelin II

Page/Plant/Bonham/Baldwin/Dixon

You need coolin'

Baby, I ain't not foolin'

Send you down

back to schoolin'

Way down inside,

mama, you need it

Baby, you need it

I'm gonna give you my love

Want a whole lotta love

You've been yearnin',

baby, I've been learnin'

All them good times, baby,

I've been mistreatin'

Way down inside

you need love

Mama, you need love

Baby, you need love

Is that it?

Is that it?

You need coolin',

baby, I ain't foolin'

Send you

back to schoolin'

Way down inside,

mama, you need love

Baby, you need love

Way down inside,

woman,

you need

love

Shake for me, girl,

I wanna be your backdoor man

Keep coolin' it, baby

I feel so good

The opening track on the album.

When released as a single in the US,

it became their first hit single and was eventually certified Gold.

The lyrics were borrowed by Plant from the song You Need Loving by Small Faces,

in turn, a cover of Muddy Waters' You Need Love.

The lyrics were originally written by Willie Dixon.

The Small Faces were never sued by Dixon but Led Zeppelin were in 1985.

Plant confessed the fact and

said that you only get caught when successful, that's the game.

The distinct drum sound was recorded

in the big room at Olympic Studios in London with 28-foot ceilings.

The drum kit was on a platform and

microphones were put and hung in different places at different heights.

The freeform section in the middle of the song

was produced by Page and engineer Eddie Kramer

by "twiddling every knob known to man" on a console.

There is a shorter version lasting 3:10 (5:33 on the album)

released by Atlantic for the promotion on radio stations.

It doesn't have the freeform section in the middle and fades out earlier.

It wasn't intended for commercial release

but some copies were sold in the US, a collector's item now.

Thanks a lot, everybody!

Thank you for coming along.

And thank you to everybody who made this show possible,

A couple of our friends who

came along to play

on this show tonight

for the memory of Ahmet Ertegun

in the days when Atlantic Records was the most magnificent record company on the planet.

Good night.

Hey, thanks so much!

It's really been an amazing night for all of us.

Thank you very much!

"Rock and Roll"

Led Zeppelin IV

Page/Plant/Bonham/Baldwin

It's been a long time since I rock-and-rolled

It's been a long time since I did the Stroll

Let me get it back,

baby, where I come from

It's been a long time, been a long time,

lonely, lonely time

It's been quite a while since The Book of Love*

* A popular song by The Monotones.

I can't count the tears of a life with no love

Open your arms

Baby, let my love come running in

It's been a long time, been a long time

It's been quite a while since we walked in the moonlight

Making vows that just can't work right

Carry me back,

baby, where I come from

Page said that the basis of the song was created during a jam session,

whilst the band were trying to finish the track Four Sticks.

After one of the failed takes, Bonham began to play the drum sequence

based on Little Richard's song Keep A-knockin'.

Page added a guitar riff, the most part of which is heard on the song.

Plant wrote the lyrics in response to

critics claiming Led Zeppelin III not being really rock 'n' roll.