- Celebration Day
Song infobox
Name = Celebration Day
Artist =Led Zeppelin
Album =Led Zeppelin III
Released =October 5 ,1970
track_no = 3
Recorded = May–August 1970
Genre =Hard rock
Length = 3:29
Label =Atlantic Records
Writer =Jimmy Page ,Robert Plant , John Paul Jones
Producer =Jimmy Page
prev = "Friends"
prev_no = 2
next = "Since I've Been Loving You "
next_no = 4"Celebration Day" is the third track from English rock bandLed Zeppelin 's 1970 album "Led Zeppelin III ".The track was almost left off the album, due to a studio oversight - an engineer accidentally erased the first few bars of
John Bonham 's drum track. To disguise it theMoog synthesizer from the end of the previous song on the album, "Friends", was used to composite over the edit. This enabled the track to be salvaged and included on the album. [http://www.iem.ac.ru/zeppelin/docs/interviews/page_93.gw Interview with Jimmy Page] , "Guitar World " magazine, 1993]"Celebration Day" is made up of jangling
Jimmy Page guitar riffs and a hypnotic, trance-like mood. In an interview he gave to "Guitar World" magazine in 1993, Page discussed the construction of the song:The lyrics of
Robert Plant refer to his impressions of the city of New York. On Led Zeppelin's 1971 concert tour of the United States, Robert Plant would sometimes introduce it as "The New York Song".The song was often played live in
Led Zeppelin concerts from 1971 through 1973, and was returned to the band's set list at Knebworth in 1979.Dave Lewis (1994), "The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9.] A live version from the band's 1973 U.S. tour was recorded and included on their concert soundtrack "The Song Remains the Same".When released in 1976, the album's accompanying film did not include this live cut of "Celebration Day", but when the DVD of the film was reissued in 2007, footage of the song was added to the second 'extras' disc, as well as being included on the reissue of the album. This reissued version is slightly different from that which was originally included on the 1976 album, in particular featuring a different
guitar solo .Jimmy Page performed this song on his tour with
The Black Crowes in 1999. A version of "Celebration Day" performed by Page and The Black Crowes can be found on the album "Live at the Greek ".References
ources
*"Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song", by Chris Welch, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
*"The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", by Dave Lewis, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9
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