“Living Loving Maid” by Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin tucked "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" onto Led Zeppelin II in 1969, right on the heels of "Heartbreaker" on side two, and radio has made a habit of playing the two back to back. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote it and Page produced it: a jaunty hard-rock strut built on a snaking riff and climbing chords, with Page's solo slotted into the middle.

The target is a groupie who hung around the band in its early days, whom Page painted as an older woman trying too hard to seem young. Neither he nor Plant ever warmed to the song; Page has called it his least favorite Zeppelin track, and they never played it live. In America it went out as the flip side of "Whole Lotta Love" and still reached 65 on the Hot 100, and in Japan it was a single of its own.

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