Bron-Yr-Aur
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Bron-Yr-Aur (sometimes misspelled as Bron-Y-Aur) is a house in Gwynedd, Wales, at grid reference SH735026, on a hilltop overlooking the Dyfi Valley. Its name, pronounced [brɔn.ər.aɪr], means breast of the gold or hill of the gold in Welsh.
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin spent time there in 1969-1970 after their long tour, during the recording of their Led Zeppelin III album. They subsequently used the name of the house in the title of two different songs, "Bron-Yr-Aur", an instrumental by Jimmy Page on the six-string guitar, which appeared on the album Physical Graffiti and in the film The Song Remains the Same, and "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp", a country music inflected hoedown on Led Zeppelin III, in which Robert Plant waxes lyrical about walking in the woods with his blue eyed merle dog. Though the cottage had no running water or electricity, the band used it as a retreat after their hectic American tour.
Additionally, Bron Yr Aur is the name of the secret instrumental track at the end of Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, the 3rd installment of Coheed and Cambria.
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