WCSX Classic Cuts : Livin’ Lovin’ Maid (She’s Just a Woman)
WCSX Classic Cuts
Led Zeppelin: “Livin’ Lovin’ Maid (She’s Just a Woman)”
The Hook: A dig at a groupie via an Eddie Cochran-inspired riff.
Album: Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Writers: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Stats: The B-side of Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” single (which got to number-four on the Hot 100), it actually reached number-65 due to the amount of airplay it received on its own.
Background: Jimmy Page says the music was inspired by — but not a copy of — ’50s rocker Eddie Cochran’s “Nervous Breakdown.” He explains: “That was an initial source. It has nothing whatsoever to do with it at the end of the day.”
Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page says that while Eddie Cochran’s “Nervous Breakdown” wasn’t an inspiration for “Communication Breakdown,” it did help inspire “Livin’ Lovin’ Maid (She’s Just a Woman).” OC:…the ether. :18
“Curiously enough, ‘Livin’ Lovin’ Maid,’ that’s the one that actually came from ‘Nervous Breakdown.’ I loved Eddie Cochran — ‘Something Else,’ ‘Summertime Blues,’ yeah, no — real Eddie Cochran fan, no doubt about it. That was an initial source, it has nothing whatsoever to do with it at the end of the day. And that’s how Zeppelin stuff could arrive, you know, through the ether.”
