Talk:Whole Lotta Love

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[edit] A 'rewrite'?

As loved as this song may be by Zeppelin notalgists, it was a ripoff, not a rewrite as the article suggests ('The song was a rewrite of the Willie Dixon song "You Need Love"'). This line should be changed, it's highly misinforming. It is even more so misleading since the article mentions that the band was succesfully sued by Willie Dixon for copyright infringement. The band was sued because they didn't give credit to Mr Dixon, not because they simply 'rewrote' it. --Bentonia School 10:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Since no one's raised any flags against me, I've gone ahead and changed the article from saying "a rewrite" to "essentially a cover". Thoughts? --Bentonia School 11:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

It's neither a cover nor a rewrite nor a completely original song. The music is original (and completely independent from Willie Dixon's song -- Page wrote it long before Plant added the lyrics). It's hard to call something a "cover" when 3/4ths of the songwriters didn't know what they were covering. ScottSwan 20:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else hear someone scream a high-pitched, "Die!" at 3:04-3:05, right as the guitar solo starts? It blends in with the guitar part, but I'm almost positive I'm hearing it. It seems to be coming out of the left speaker only. This is a version from the Led Zeppelin Complete Studio Recordings box set, but I'm sure it's there on the original version as well. -Dan 6/29/07

I deleted the sentence that the Willie Dixon song was a later influence on "Custard Pie." The statement is wrong; the lyrics to "Custard Pie" quote from Bukka White's "Bring 'Em on Down," which also appear in "Hats off to (Roy) Harper." DMO 9/23/07.

This isn't a Led Zeppelin song, or a Willie Dixon song. It's originally by Muddy Waters, this article even mentions that he recorded it in 1962! But it glosses over that and says it's a Led Zeppelin song. That's wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.214.115.58 (talk) 00:50, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On The Run

Should it be noted that the Pink Floyd song On The Run was sampled into the song (around the 3:16 mark)? Gcrossan_(Talk) 21:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

reference?? 156.34.142.110 (talk) 21:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Haven't any references (thats why i dint put it in the article), was just listening to the song and recognised the segment Gcrossan_(Talk) 02:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Then that would be a WP:ATT violation. No original research allowed. Wikipedia has too much already. 156.34.213.216 (talk) 03:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mystery Train

The article states the following at the moment:

"Lyrics from "Mystery Train," written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips (and recorded by Elvis Presley), also appear during the instrumental break."

Now, for the life of me I cant find any references to the lyrics of Mystery Train within Whole Lotta Love. Can this either be referenced for removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.249.100 (talk) 15:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)