| "Since I've Been Loving You" | |||||||||
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| Song by Led Zeppelin from the album Led Zeppelin III | |||||||||
| Released | 5 October 1970 | ||||||||
| Recorded | May - August 1970 | ||||||||
| Genre | Blues rock | ||||||||
| Length | 7:23 | ||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | ||||||||
| Writer | Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones | ||||||||
| Producer | Jimmy Page | ||||||||
| Led Zeppelin III track listing | |||||||||
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"Since I've Been Loving You" is a blues-rock song in C minor by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on the 1970 album Led Zeppelin III.
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This was one of the first songs prepared for the Led Zeppelin III album.[1] The song was recorded live in the studio with very little overdubbing. John Paul Jones played Hammond organ on the song, using the bass pedals for the bassline.[2] It was the only track from the third album that the band had played live prior to the recording sessions, but was reportedly the hardest to record.[3] One story mentions Jimmy Page taking a break following a series of failed attempts to track the solo. Seemingly unable to get the tone he was craving, he set about a walk around the studio to clear his mind. Sitting outside of the recording area was an unplugged amplifier, which he utilised, and recorded the solo we hear today on the next take. Audio engineer Terry Manning called it "The best rock guitar solo of all time."
Because of the live recording, this is one of a few songs in which one can hear the squeak of John Bonham's bass drum pedal in the studio, the others being "The Ocean", "The Rain Song", "Over the Hills and Far Away", "The Crunge", and "Dancing Days" from 1973's Houses of the Holy, "Ten Years Gone" and "Houses of the Holy" from 1975's Physical Graffiti, "All My Love" from 1979's In Through the Out Door, and "Bonzo's Montreux" from 1982's Coda and "I Can't Quit You Baby" from the same album. In an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine in 1993, Page made comment of this whilst discussing the remastering of Led Zeppelin tracks:
The only real problem I can remember encountering was when we were putting the first boxed set together. There was an awfully squeaky bass drum pedal on "Since I've Been Loving You". It sounds louder and louder every time I hear it! [laughs]. That was something that was obviously sadly overlooked at the time.[4]
As an improvisational showcase for all four group members, and especially for Jimmy Page's electric blues guitar solos, "Since I've Been Loving You" became a staple and fan favorite of Led Zeppelin's live concert performances from 1970 until the end of their ninth American tour in summer 1973. It was played on the 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979 and 1980 tours, but only a few times on the 1975 North American tour. In live performances of the song from 1977 onwards, Page would sometimes incorporate some of the solo of "Tea for One", a track from the band's 1976 album Presence that is similar in style to this song.
Page's guitar prowess is well demonstrated in different performances of the song from Madison Square Garden in July 1973, as seen in the group's concert films The Song Remains the Same (and accompanying soundtrack) and Led Zeppelin DVD. There is also a June 1972 live recording of "Since I've Been Loving You" which can be heard on the album How the West Was Won, and another live version on Disc 2 of BBC Sessions.
Page and Plant recorded a version of the song in 1994, released on their album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded. Plant also used a sample from this on his solo track "White, Clean, and Neat". "Since I've Been Loving You" was performed at Led Zeppelin's reunion show at the O2 Arena, London on December 10, 2007.
| Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
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| Sounds | Germany | "The Top 30 Songs of All Time"[5] | 1992 | 16 |
| Mojo | United Kingdom | "100 Great Voices"[6] | 1994 | * |
| Guitarist | United Kingdom | "Top 100 Guitar Solos of All-time"[7] | 1998 | 8 |
| Guitar World | United States | "100 Greatest Solos of All-time"[8] | 1998 | 53 |
| Q | United Kingdom | "1010 Songs You Must Own!"[9] | 2004 | * |
(*) designates unordered lists.
Working from seven to eleven every night,
It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right.
I've really, really been the best of fools, I did what I could.
'Cause I love you, baby, How I love you, darling, How I love you, baby,
How I love you, girl, little girl.
But baby, Since I've Been Loving You. I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh, yeah.
Everybody trying to tell me that you didn't mean me no good.
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you, Let me tell you I really did the best I could.
I've been working from seven to eleven every night, I said It kinda makes my life a drag.
Lord, that ain't right...
Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose my worried mind.
Said I've been crying, my tears they fell like rain,
Don't you hear, Don't you hear them falling,
Don't you hear, Don't you hear them falling.
Do you remember mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, hear my back door slam,
You must have one of them new fangled back door man.
I've been working from seven, seven, seven, to eleven every night, It kinda makes my life a drag...
Baby, Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose, I'm about lose to my worried mind.
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