“The Lemon Song” by Led Zeppelin

"The Lemon Song" is Led Zeppelin's 1969 reworking of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor", which is why it sits on Led Zeppelin II with Wolf credited as a writer alongside Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Page produced it, Eddie Kramer mixed, Chris Huston engineered and Peter Grant was executive producer.

Wolf had cut the original in Chicago in August 1964 for a Chess single, and it went on to become a pillar of Chicago electric blues, the kind of tune rock bands and blues players alike couldn't leave alone; the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame has saluted it. His guitarist Hubert Sumlin explained the title: the killing floor is where a slaughterhouse does its grim work, a stand-in for a woman who has a man pinned.

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