“How Many More Times” by Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin save the longest haul for last: "How Many More Times" closes their 1969 debut, Led Zeppelin, and at eight and a half minutes it's a whole night at the blues club crammed into one album-closing jam. Jimmy Page built it from scraps he'd worked up back in the Yardbirds, and the band cut it live in the studio, steering by cues and nods, with John Bonham and John Paul Jones rolling out a galloping groove, Robert Plant wailing over the top, and Page dragging a bow across his guitar for a stretch of eerie, sawing noise.

Midway it lurches into "Rosie" and a pass through "The Hunter", the Albert King number, detours the group stumbled onto on the night of the session. Page produced and Glyn Johns engineered. The sleeve credited Page, Jones and Bonham; Plant was added to the ASCAP credits later.

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