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Led Zeppelin release the album Led Zeppelin II in the USA and UK simultaneously.
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Robert Plant : It was crazy really. We were writing the numbers in hotel rooms and then we'd do a rhythm track in London, add the vocal in New York, overdub the harmonica in Vancouver and then come back to finish mixing at New York.
(Source : Led Zeppelin: The Concert File by Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett, Omnibus Press, 1997)
Jimmy Page : It was done wherever we could get into a studio, in Bits And Pieces, so I couldn't even tell you how long it actually took. I remember we did vocal overdubs in an eight-track studio in Vancouver where they didn't even have proper headphones. Can you imagine that? It was just recorded while we were on the road.
Thank You, The Lemon Song, and Moby Dick were overdubbed on tour and the mixing of Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker was done on tour. In other words, some of the material came out of rehearsing for the next tour and getting new material together. The most important thing about Zeppelin II is that up to that point I'd contributed lyrics. Robert wrote Thank You on his own. That was the first one and it's important because it's when he began to come through as a lyricist. I'd always hoped that he would.
Slash (guitarist) : Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow is a big one for me; Hendrix Axis: Bold as Love, Disraeli Gears from Cream - I know these are all ancient records, but they're just what I was sort of weaned on - Led Zeppelin II and Aerosmith Rocks.
Steve Vai (guitarist) : When I finally heard Led Zeppelin II, I said,
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(Source : Led Zeppelin: The Concert File by Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett, Omnibus Press, 1997)
Jimmy Page : It was done wherever we could get into a studio, in Bits And Pieces, so I couldn't even tell you how long it actually took. I remember we did vocal overdubs in an eight-track studio in Vancouver where they didn't even have proper headphones. Can you imagine that? It was just recorded while we were on the road.
Thank You, The Lemon Song, and Moby Dick were overdubbed on tour and the mixing of Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker was done on tour. In other words, some of the material came out of rehearsing for the next tour and getting new material together. The most important thing about Zeppelin II is that up to that point I'd contributed lyrics. Robert wrote Thank You on his own. That was the first one and it's important because it's when he began to come through as a lyricist. I'd always hoped that he would.
Slash (guitarist) : Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow is a big one for me; Hendrix Axis: Bold as Love, Disraeli Gears from Cream - I know these are all ancient records, but they're just what I was sort of weaned on - Led Zeppelin II and Aerosmith Rocks.
Steve Vai (guitarist) : When I finally heard Led Zeppelin II, I said,