The Rover (song)
" The Rover" is the second track of Physical Graffiti , sixth album of the group of Rock English Led Zeppelin left in 1975. This song, written with Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970 and recorded during the sessions of Houses off the Holy in 1972, was to be Acoustique. However, it was decided not to off put it on the album Houses the Holy . One thus finds it on the album which followed: Physical Graffiti . Meanwhile, the song was altered and of the arrangements studio one added by Jimmy Page in 1974.
" The Rover" start with a intro with the battery of John Bonham and, throughout the song, Page plays a particular front using an effect Shifter Phase. The intro is very close to the song of The Kinks, " Wicked Annabella" , resulting from the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Safeguarding Society left in 1968. " Rover" of wandering Argot meaning in is an old term English. The words coincide very well with this definition: " I' ve been to London, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall… Traversed the planet when heaven feels me. I saw the kings who rule them all."
On the original small pocket of the disc, the text associated with the credit for this song contains this line " Guitar lost courtesy Nevison… Salvaged by the grace off Harwood" , which refers to the difficulties encountered during the recording by Keith Harwood and Ron Nevison, both sound engineers on the album Physical Graffiti .
" The Rover" played forever in concert by Led Zeppelin although the group played the first measurements in introduction to " Sick Again " at the time of their round of 1977 with the the United States.
Sources (in English)
- Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song , by Chris Welch, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
- The Supplements off Guide to the Music Led Zeppelin , by Dave Lewis, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9
Category: Song of 1975
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