Sick Again

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"Sick Again"
"Sick Again" cover
Song by Led Zeppelin
from the album 'Physical Graffiti'
Released February 24, 1975
Recorded 1974
Genre Hard rock
Length 4:43
Label Atlantic Records
Writer(s) Page/Plant
'Physical Graffiti' track listing
"Black Country Woman"
(14)		 "Sick Again"
(15)

"Sick Again" is a song by Led Zeppelin, from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. Many consider the song to be the closest the band came to glam rock.

Jimmy Page and John Bonham performing "Sick Again" at Knebworth in 1979
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Jimmy Page and John Bonham performing "Sick Again" at Knebworth in 1979

This song was written by Robert Plant about teenage groupies, or as he called them, the "L.A. Queens". He took pity upon these girls who would flock to the hotel rooms of the band to offer them favors.

When Led Zeppelin performed this live on their 1977 U.S. tour, they started it with the first verse instrumental of The Rover.

[edit] Trivia

  • This was the closest Led Zeppelin came to Glam Rock. It sounded a little like T-Rex and David Bowie, but Zeppelin was not about to put on make up or wear feminine clothes.
  • The song is about Led Zeppelin's groupies. Robert Plant's vocals are hard to hear because they are buried in the mix.
  • At the end of this number, a suitably sickly cough arises from John Bonham, whose health was not always in best shape after "A night on the tiles."

[edit] External links

[edit] Sources

  • Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every song, by Chris Welch, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
  • The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin, by Dave Lewis, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9


Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page · Robert Plant · John Paul Jones · John Bonham
Discography - (Category)
Studio albums: Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin II · Led Zeppelin III · Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin IV) · Houses of the Holy · Physical Graffiti · Presence · In Through the Out Door

Live albums: The Song Remains the Same · BBC Sessions · How the West Was Won
Compilations: Box Set · Profiled · Remasters · Box Set 2 · Complete Studio Recordings · Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume One · Latter Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two · Coda
Films
The Song Remains the Same · Led Zeppelin DVD
Other
Peter Grant · Richard Cole · Swan Song Records · The Yardbirds · XYZ · The Firm · Page and Plant · Strange Sensation · Bootlegs ∙ Concerts ∙ Songs
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