Most High (song)

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"Most High"
Mosthigh-cover.jpg
Single by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
from the album Walking into Clarksdale
B-side
  • "The Window"
  • "Upon a Golden Horse"
Released30 March 1998 (1998-03-30)
Studio Abbey Road (London, England)
Genre Hard rock
Length5:36
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Jimmy Page
  • Robert Plant
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant singles chronology
"Gallows Pole"
(1994)
"Most High"
(1998)
"Shining in the Light"
(1998)

"Most High" is a song by English rock duo Jimmy Page and Robert Plant from their only studio album, Walking into Clarksdale (1998). The song features a keyboard overdub by Tim Whelan of Transglobal Underground, played in a quarter-tone to mimic Moroccan trance. [1]

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Release and reception

Issued as a single in the United Kingdom and the United States on 30 March 1998, [2] [3] "Most High" reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart, and No. 88 on the Australian Singles Chart. [4] [5] [6] In 1999, the song won Page and Plant the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. [7]

B-side "The Window" was one of two known original songs from the sessions to not make the album, the other being "Whiskey from the Glass", included as a bonus on some editions of the album. [8]

Music video

The music video for "Most High" was directed by Italian-Canadian photographer and director Floria Sigismondi. [9] [10] It was included as a bonus feature on the DVD release of No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded . The video, featuring visual references to the religious themes of the song's lyrics, depicts Jimmy Page and Robert Plant as prisoners in a numbered cell block, with other cells holding a series of mutated creatures practicing dark magic. [11]

Track listings

All tracks are written by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Charlie Jones, and Michael Lee except where noted

UK, Australasian, and Japanese CD single [12] [13]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Most High" 4:25
2."Upon a Golden Horse" 3:57
3."The Window"
  • Page
  • Plant
  • Jones
  • Lee
  • Phil Andrews
6:05
UK 7-inch single and European CD single [14] [15]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Most High" 4:25
2."The Window"
  • Page
  • Plant
  • Jones
  • Lee
  • Andrews
6:05

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the Walking into Clarksdale album booklet. [16]

Studio

Personnel

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom30 March 1998
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
Mercury [2]
United StatesRadio Atlantic [3]
Japan29 April 1998CDMercury [22]

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