| "Black Dog" | ||||
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Black_Dog45.jpg) Picture sleeve for French vinyl single | ||||
| Single by Led Zeppelin | ||||
| from the album Led Zeppelin IV | ||||
| B-side | "Misty Mountain Hop" | |||
| Released | 2 December 1971 (US) | |||
| Recorded | January 1971; December 1970, February 1971[1] | |||
| Studio | Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Headley Grange, Hampshire; Island Studios, London[1] | |||
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| Length | 4:55 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Page | |||
| Led Zeppelin singles chronology | ||||
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"Black Dog" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is the first track on the band's untitled fourth album (1971), which has become one of the best-selling albums of all time.[6] The song was released as a single and reached the charts in many countries. It is "one of the most instantly recognisable Zeppelin tracks", and was included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list (US), and ranked No. 1 in Q magazine's (UK) "20 Greatest Guitar Tracks". The lyrics contain typical bluesman themes of lust, eroticism and betrayal.[1]
- ^ a b c Guesdon & Margotin 2018, p. 244.
- ^ Fast 2001, p. 33: "'Black Dog' ... represents a defining moment in the genre of hard rock."
- ^ "Led Zeppelin Biography". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
Black Dog" was a piledriving hard-rock number cut from the same cloth as "Whole Lotta Love.
- ^ Schuman 2009, p. 49: "The fourth album also has its share of hard rock tracks. Three that received a lot of radio airplay are 'Black Dog,' 'Misty Mountain Hop,' and the appropriately named 'Rock and Roll.'"
- ^ Bream 2010, p. 110: "[Led Zeppelin IV] balances the blues-rock grind of 'Black Dog' against the sun-dappled utopianism of 'Going to California'".
- ^ McCormick, Neil (29 July 2014). "Led Zeppelin IV: is this the greatest rock album ever made?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.