22/10/1969: LANÇAMENTO DO ÁLBUM "LED ZEPPELIN II"

25/9/1980: MORRE JOHN BONHAM

22/10/1969: LANÇAMENTO DO ÁLBUM LED ZEPPELIN II

CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA

WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE LIVE (1970) LED ZEPPELIN

Sérgio Luiz Gallina

And if I say to you tomorrow

Take my hand, child, come with me

It's to a castle I will take you

Where what's to be, they say will be

----

A-catch the wind, see us spin

Sail away, leave today

Way up high in the sky

It won't, but the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go

It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time

----

And if you say to me tomorrow

Oh, what fun it all would be

then what's to stop us, pretty baby

but what is and what should never be

----

A-catch the wind, see us spin

Sail away, leave today

Way up high in the sky

It won't, but the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go

It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time

----

So if you wake up with the sunrise

and all your dreams are still as new

and happiness is what you need so bad

Well, girl, the answer lies with you, yeah

----

A-catch the wind, see us spin

Sail away, leave today

Way up high in the sky

It won't, but the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go

It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time

----

Hey, ho, ma

A-well, the wind won't blow, and we really shouldn't go

and it only goes to show-whoa-whoa-whoa

Catch the wind, we're gonna see us spin

We're gonna sail, little girl

A-do-do-do, ba-ba-n-do, oh

Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, yeah

Everybody I know seems to know me well

but does anyody know I'm gonna move like hell

A-baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, ho, I love ya

Baby, baby, babe, huh, oh, I love ya

Do, no, no, no, no, no, no, come on, now

I want you

------------------------------ ------------------------------

FRASE DO DIA

ROBERT PLANT

Finalmente Robert Plant presta um grande serviço ao rock e à música de uma maneira geral. Fiquei sabendo que ele recusou uma oferta de aproximadamente dois bilhões de reais para assinar um contrato para uma turnê com 35 shows do Led Zeppelin.

Um gesto nobre e de desprendimento para a paz e felicidade da humanidade. Meus eternos agradecimentos a Robert Plant.

CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (1973) LED ZEPPELIN

Sérgio Luiz Gallina

Há 38 anos (20 de outubro de 1976), na New York das torres gêmeas em pé, rolou a pré-estreia do filme "The Song remains the Same", de Peter Clifton e Joe Massot. Lançado no Brasil como "Rock é Rock Mesmo", voltado à malucada setentista, fãs e curiosos, traz um grande momento dessa banda épica e referencial do rock. É Led mandando ver.

Esse vídeo me foi enviado por um amigo dos anos 70. Parte do filme, não se trata de mais um clássico apenas, mas do topo da cadeia, dos clássicos entre os clássicos. Porque "Stairway to Heaven" é um deles, lá, como diz o nome, onde habitam os deuses.

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for

And she's buying a stairway to heaven----

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure

'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings

In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings

Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

----

It makes me wonder----

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west

And my spirit is crying for leaving

In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees

And the voices of those who stand looking

----

It makes me wonder

----

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune

Then the piper will lead us to reason

And a new day will dawn for those who stand long

And the forests will echo with laughter----

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now

It's just a spring clean for the May queen

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run

There's still time to change the road you're on

----

And it makes me wonder----

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know

The piper's calling you to join him

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

----

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last

When all is one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll

----

And she's buying a stairway to heaven------------

CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA

GOING TO CALIFORNIA - 1971 - LED ZEPPELIN

Sérgio Luiz Gallina

Going to California é uma canção do Led Zeppelin que faz parte do álbum Led Zeppelin IV, de 1971. Para gravar o solo, Jimmy Page utilizou um double drop D tuning, recurso inovador na época.

Robert Plant disse que a música era sobre "os primeiros anos do grupo, quando eu tinha apenas cerca de 20 anos e estava lutando para me encontrar no meio de toda a loucura da Califórnia, da banda e das groupies."

Spent my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind to make a new start
Going to California with an aching in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

Took my chances on a big jet plane
Never let them tell you that they're all the same
The sea was red and the sky was grey
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow
I think I might be sinking
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high

To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings la la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Trying to find a woman who's never, never, never been born
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems