RAMBLE ON

Another track that was laid down on the run at Mystic Studios and Mirror Sound in Los Angeles in May 1969 and Groove Studios and Juggy Sound in New York in June.

And with with its Tolkien-inspired lyrical content, here enters the ethereal Page and Plant. Plant references characters from JRR Tolkein’s and . It remains a vivid illustration of the light-and-shade dynamism that would characterise so much of Zeppelin’s best work. It slips effortlessly from quiet, mournful passages into an uplifting chorus, and Page’s overdubbed interweaving Gibson run is an early attempt at the guitar army assault that would become his trademark.