Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)

Infobox Single
Name = Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)


Artist = Led Zeppelin
from Album = Led Zeppelin II
A-side = "Whole Lotta Love"
Released = October 22, 1969
Format = 7" single: US, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, CD single
Recorded = May 1969, Olympic Studios, London
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 2:39
Label = Atlantic Records
Writer = Page, Plant
Producer = Jimmy Page
Certification = Gold
Chart position =
Reviews =
Last single = "Good Times Bad Times" / "Communication Breakdown"
(1969)
This single = "Whole Lotta Love" / "Living Loving Maid" (She's Just a Woman)"
(1969)
Next single = "Immigrant Song" / "Hey Hey What Can I Do"
(1970)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = single


Lower caption = Extra tracklisting
Album = Led Zeppelin II
Type = studio
prev_track = "Heartbreaker"
prev_no = 5
this_track = "Living Loving Maid" (She's Just a Woman)"
track_no = 6
next_track = "Ramble On"
next_no = 7

"Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their album "Led Zeppelin II", released in 1969. It was also released as the b-side of the single "Whole Lotta Love". The song is about a groupie who annoyed the band early in their career.Dave Lewis (1994), "The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9.]

It is often noted that this is guitarist Jimmy Page's least favorite Led Zeppelin song, and was thus never performed in concert, except a single show in Dusseldorf (a little snappet right after Heartbreaker), March 12, 1970, as bootlegs from that date show. It was also one of the few Led Zeppelin songs on which he sang backing vocals. Conversely, singer Robert Plant took a liking to the song, and played it on his 1990 solo tour.

For the recording of this track, Page played on a Vox 12-string guitar. [http://www.iem.ac.ru/zeppelin/docs/interviews/page_93.gw Interview with Jimmy Page] , "Guitar World" magazine, 1993]

When heard on the radio it was typically played immediately after their song "Heartbreaker", as it flows seamlessly from the abrupt ending of that song on the original album. Yet the band never played these songs together on stage at Led Zeppelin concerts (something they consistently did, for example from late 1972 to 1975 with "The Song Remains the Same" and "The Rain Song" — the first two tracks from their 1973 album "Houses of the Holy").

Robert Plant brought the song into his "Manic Nirvana" US solo tour set in 1990. Led Zeppelin parody cover band Dread Zeppelin recorded a version of this song on their album "Un-Led-Ed".

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