“Hot Dog” by Led Zeppelin

"Hot Dog" is tucked into In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's eighth album, which Swan Song put out in August 1979 after a three-week blitz at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm at the tail end of 1978. On a record that mostly belonged to John Paul Jones and Robert Plant, with Jimmy Page and John Bonham often missing from the sessions, this one carries a Page and Plant writing credit, and all four are on it: Plant singing lead, Page on guitar, Jones on electric bass, Bonham on drums and percussion.

Page produced, Peter Grant took the executive producer credit, Leif Mases engineered and Lennart Östlund assisted. Nobody knew it then, but this was the last thing Led Zeppelin released before Bonham died in September 1980, and three months later the surviving members called it a day.

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