Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
“Kashmir,” one of Led Zeppelin’s signature songs, was written after LZ’s 1973 tour, about a drive through an area of Morocco. As documented by Wikipedia, Robert Plant told music journalist Cameron Crowe:
The whole inspiration came from the fact that the road went on and on and on. It was a single-t...
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
With stars to fill my dreams
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
Sit with elders of a gentle race
This world has seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed
[Verse 2]
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace
Whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
[Bridge]
Ooooh
Oh, baby, I been flying
No, yeah, mama, there ain't no denying
Oh, ooh, yeah, I've been flying
Mama, mama, ain't no denying, no denying
Oh, all I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find, where I've been
[Verse 3]
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Here is the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June
When movin' through Kashmir
[Verse 4]
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Ooh
Ooooh
[Outro]
Oh, when I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way you stay, yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down, yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, but I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, ooh, my baby, let me take you there
Oh, oh, come on, come on, oh, let me take you there, let me take you there
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, let me take you there, let me take you there
Kashmir was written by John Bonham & Jimmy Page & Robert Plant.
Kashmir was produced by Jimmy Page.
Led Zeppelin released Kashmir on Mon Feb 24 1975.
Jimmy Page told Rolling Stone in 2012:
I suppose “Kashmir” has to be [my favorite riff.] I knew that this wasn’t just something guitar-based. All of the guitar parts would be on there. But the orchestra needed to sit there, reflecting those other parts, doing what the guitars were but with the colo...
Rolling Stone ranked it as Led Zeppelin’s #4 song, saying:
It’s their hugest-sounding track, partly because it was one of the few that used outside musicians – a string and brass corps that augmented Jones' Mellotron swirls, Bonham’s druid storm-trooper processional and Page’s Arabic-Indian vibe (...