Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
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The gentle and intense acoustic piece Bron-Yr-Aur is the perfect segue into “Down by the Seaside”.
Originally written for Led Zeppelin III. It’s the shortest song recorded by Zep. Played in the open C6 tuning (C-A-C-G-C-E).
[Instrumental]
Bron-Yr-Aur was written by Jimmy Page.
Bron-Yr-Aur was produced by Jimmy Page.
Led Zeppelin released Bron-Yr-Aur on Mon Feb 24 1975.
As documented by Wikipedia, vocalist Robert Plant said in a bootleg recording from a 1970 show:
This is a thing called ‘Bron-Yr-Aur’. This is a name of the little cottage in the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales, and ‘Bron-Yr-Aur’ is the Welsh equivalent of the phrase ‘Golden Breast’. This is so beca...
In a 2015 review, Mark Richardson of Pitchfork wrote:
Pastoral instrumentals had been in the mix for Zeppelin since the first album’s ‘Black Mountainside,’ but Page never managed another one as beautiful as ‘Bron-Yr-Aur,’ a crushingly brief two minutes of guitar bliss that every rock kid who picked...