WCSX Classic Cuts : Misty Mountain Hop
WCSX Classic Cuts
Led Zeppelin: “Misty Mountain Hop”
The Hook: A collaborative effort they came up with at Headley Grange, the rural house they rented to rehearse and record parts of their third through sixth albums.
Album: Led Zeppelin IV
Year: 1971
Writers: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones
Stats: Never released as a single, but like most of the cuts on Led Zeppelin IV, it got plenty of FM rock radio airplay.
Background: Jimmy Page shares his feelings about — and memories of writing — Led Zeppelin’s “Misty Mountain Hop.”
Jimmy Page shares his feelings about and memories of writing Led Zeppelin’s “Misty Mountain Hop.” OC:…for that. :15
“Ah, I think it’s good. I think it’s really good. That’s a collaboration. That was one we wrote at Headley Grange. The guitar riff started that off. I think Jonesy came up with the chord changes for the misty mountain part – those two chords for that.”
