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“Four Sticks” by Led Zeppelin

From the album [Led Zeppelin IV] (1971)

“Four Sticks” by Led Zeppelin appears on 23 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1990 and 2024. It was first released in 1971 on the album [Led Zeppelin IV]. Its best result is #358 on the KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,297 classic rock song of all time.

23countdowns
7stations
#358best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1990–2024years charted

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Led Zeppelin - Four Sticks (Official Audio)

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"Four Sticks" sits on Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album, which came out on November 8, 1971, and the name is literal: John Bonham pounds it out with two sticks in each hand. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote it and Page produced, with Andy Johns engineering and mixing and Peter Grant as executive producer.

It fought them every step of the way. The song needed more takes than usual to nail down, its riffs lurch between 5/8 and 6/8, and John Paul Jones colors it with a VCS3 synthesizer. The band played it live exactly once, at the KB Hallen in Copenhagen on May 3, 1971, six months before the album appeared, and a rare bootleg is the proof.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1990 849 Z-Rock Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) 1000
1994 628 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1995 757 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1998 644 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) 1000
1999 595 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2002 549 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2004 900 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) 923
2010 433 97.9 The Loop The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) 500
2011 934 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) 1100
2012 983 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2013 726 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2014 378 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 400 (2014) 400
2014 653 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 488 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015) 499
2015 733 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2016 961 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2017 533 97.9 The Loop 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) 540
2019 609 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2020 358 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2022 1005 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2022 498 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2023 844 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2024 905 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043

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