Whole Lotta Love

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"Whole Lotta Love"
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French single picture sleeve
Single by Led Zeppelin
from the album Led Zeppelin II
B-side "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)"
Released7 November 1969 (1969-11-07)
Recorded14–19 April 1969, 28–30 April 1969 [1]
Studio Olympic, London; A&M, Hollywood [1]
Genre
Length5:33 [7]
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin singles chronology
"Good Times Bad Times"
(1969)		"Whole Lotta Love"
(1969)		"Immigrant Song"
(1970)

"Whole Lotta Love" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II , and was released as a single in 1969 in several countries; as with other Led Zeppelin songs, no single was released in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it became their first hit and was certified gold. [8] Parts of the song's lyrics were adapted from Willie Dixon's "You Need Love", recorded by Muddy Waters in 1962; originally uncredited to Dixon, a lawsuit in 1985 was settled with a payment to Dixon and credit on subsequent releases.

Contents

In 2004, the song was ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in March 2005, Q placed "Whole Lotta Love" at number three in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. It was placed 11 on a similar list by Rolling Stone . In 2009 it was named the third greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. [2] In 2014, listeners to BBC Radio 2 voted "Whole Lotta Love" as containing the greatest guitar riff of all time. [9]

Composition and recording

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"Whole Lotta Love"
Sample with guitar riff

Jimmy Page came up with the guitar riff for "Whole Lotta Love" in the summer of 1968, on his houseboat on the River Thames at Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. [1] However, John Paul Jones stated that it probably was developed from a live improvisation during performances of "Dazed and Confused". [10] Page denied that the song originated onstage and that he had the riff and the rest took it from there. [11]

Notation for the song indicates the key of E major and a tempo of 92 beats per minute [12] in a compound AABA form. [13] During the two day mix of the Led Zeppelin II album, audio engineer Eddie Kramer discovered that some bleedthrough occurred on Plant's vocals on the "Whole Lotta Love" track, which could not be removed, so he put some echo on it, and Page liked the sound. [14] Page also employed a backwards echo production technique. [15]

Personnel

According to Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin: [1]

Release

On 7 November 1969, "Whole Lotta Love" was released as a single in several countries, with "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" as the B-side. [16] In the US, Atlantic provided an edited 3:12 version as the flipside for radio stations. [15] [17] Billboard described the single as a "powerful, commercial swinger that should have no trouble putting [Led Zeppelin] up the Hot 100." [18] [19] Cash Box described it as "a mixture of rock and blues with special production touches and a rousing lead vocal performance." [20] In the UK, Atlantic Records expected to issue an edited version, and pressed initial copies for release on 5 December 1969, but this was cancelled by request of manager Peter Grant. [15]

Similarities to "You Need Love"

In 1962, Muddy Waters recorded a blues vocal, "You Need Love", for Chess Records. [21] As he had done with "You Shook Me", Waters overdubbed vocals on an instrumental track previously recorded by blues guitarist Earl Hooker and his band. [21] Willie Dixon wrote the lyrics, which Dixon biographer Mitsutoshi Inaba describes as being "about the necessity of love":

You've got yearnin' and I got burnin'
Baby you look so, ho, sweet and cunnin'
Baby way down inside, woman you need love
Woman you need love, you've got to have some love
I'm gon' give you some love, I know you need love [21]

In 1966, the British band Small Faces recorded the song as "You Need Loving" for their eponymous debut Decca album. According to Steve Marriott, the group's vocalist and guitarist, Page and Plant attended several Small Faces gigs, where they expressed their interest in the song. [22] Plant's phrasing is particularly similar to that of Marriott's, who added "he [Plant] sang it the same, phrased it the same, even the stops at the end were the same". [22] Similarities with "You Need Love" led to a lawsuit against Led Zeppelin in 1985, settled out of court in favour of Dixon for an undisclosed amount. [15] On subsequent releases, Dixon's name is included on the credits for "Whole Lotta Love". [23] Plant explained in an interview with Musician :

Page's riff was Page's riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, 'well, what am I going to sing?' That was it, a nick. Now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that ... well, you only get caught when you're successful. That's the game. [24]

Accolades

Accolades
PublicationCountryAccoladeYearRank
Spin US"100 Greatest Singles of All Time" [25] 198939
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame US"The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll" [26] 1994*
Classic Rock UK"Ten of the Best Songs Ever!.. (Bubbling under)" [27] 199930
Rolling Stone US"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" [28] 200375
Q UK"100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever" [29] 20053
Toby Creswell Australia"1001 Songs: the Great Songs of All Time" [30] 2005*
Grammy Awards US"Grammy Hall of Fame Award" [31] 2007*
Rolling StoneUS"100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" [32] 200811
VH1 US"The 100 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time" [33] 200946
VH1US"VH1 Greatest Hard Rock Songs" [2] 20093
BBC Radio 2 UK"Radio 2's Top 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs" [9] 20141
Rolling Stone US"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" [34] 2021128

(*) designates unordered lists.

Charts

The single entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 22 November 1969. It remained on the chart for 15 weeks, peaking at number four and becoming the band's only top-10 single in the US. [35]

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Germany—400,000 [71]
Italy (FIMI) [72] Platinum50,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [73] Platinum600,000‡
United States (RIAA) [8] Gold1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Performances

Led Zeppelin first performed "Whole Lotta Love" on 26 April 1969. Other live versions were released officially:

"Whole Lotta Love" was the last song Led Zeppelin played live. It was, however, performed again at the band's reunions at Live Aid in 1985 (with drummers Phil Collins and Tony Thompson), at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in 1988, and at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at the O2 Arena, London, on 10 December 2007 (both with drummer Jason Bonham). [78]

In 2008, a reworked version by Jimmy Page on guitar, with Leona Lewis on vocals, was performed in the "London 2012" presentation during the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Both Lewis and the organisers requested that some of the lyrics be changed, notably "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love". Lewis felt that the line made little sense coming from a female singer. [79]

Cover versions

"Whole Lotta Love" has been recorded by several artists. Versions that reached the record charts include:

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