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Played: 2026-03-19
Opening track of Led Zeppelin IV, released 8 November 1971 on Atlantic Records; also released as a single. Named after a stray black labrador that wandered around Headley Grange, the residential recording studio in Hampshire where the album was tracked. Jimmy Page wrote the riff; Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham all contributed to its development. The track's unusual structure has vocals and rhythm section playing in different metric groupings, creating a lurching push-pull effect. Led Zeppelin IV has sold over 37 million copies worldwide, one of the best-selling albums in history.
Played: 2026-09-03 (Moment in History)
Closes the A-side of Led Zeppelin's 1973 classic Houses of the Holy, written by John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant — Jones in particular is often credited with its brooding, murky keyboard atmosphere. Jimmy Page applied vari-speed tape trickery to drop the whole song by a semitone, giving it a thicker, more oppressive mood than the version first sketched at Headley Grange. It became a centerpiece of every Zeppelin concert through the band's final tour; this "Remaster" is the 2014 reissue treatment from the deluxe edition.
Moment in History: In 2023, an album sleeve signed by all four members of Led Zeppelin sold for £15,000 at auction despite not containing the actual record — the cardboard sleeve of Houses of the Holy (this album) had only been estimated to sell for £1,200–£1,800. Items signed by all band members are rare due to drummer John Bonham's 1980 death and the band's subsequent split; the seller acquired the autographs during a chance encounter at Gatwick Airport in 1977.
Sources: Wikipedia · Rolling Stone