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Led Zeppelin – Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (6:41)

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“Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” is a traditional folk song written by Anne Bredon in the late 1950s. It was recorded by Joan Baez and released on her 1963 album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 1, and also by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, being included on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin.

The band was inspired to cover the song after hearing Baez’s version. Both guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant were big fans of Baez. Baez’s original album had indicated that the song was a traditional number, and Led Zeppelin followed suit by crediting the song as “Trad. , arr. Page”. In the 1980s, Bredon was made aware of Led Zeppelin’s version of the song. Since 1990 the Led Zeppelin version has been credited to Anne Bredon/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and Bredon received a substantial back-payment in royalties.

This was the number Page played to Plant at their first meeting together, which took place at Page’s riverside home at Pangbourne in late July 1968. It is often stated that the song evolved when Plant played to Page the guitar arrangement which eventually found its way onto the album. In an interview he gave with Guitar World magazine in 1998, Page refuted this story, noting that he had worked out the arrangement long before he met Plant, told him he would like it on the album, and that Plant at that time did not even play the guitar.

It is rumoured that Page recorded another version of the song, with Steve Winwood, in 1968, which was never released.
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  • grezia00x

    epic

    yesterday evening

  • oldiesfanjohn

    2:25 Properly Bonzo-ed!

    Thursday morning

  • GenesisOrbit

    This song tears me apart.

    10 days ago

  • lilium19

    EPIC SONG.

    12 days ago

  • czery_

    Jimmy FUCKING Page

    12 days ago

  • JASONBONE19

    Classic :).

    12 days ago

  • Ennish

    I often hear my dad playing this on his acoustic without knowing what it is. Now I finally have my answer. :)

    14 days ago

  • mrfootball70

    really got to ramble....

    17 days ago

  • jvictorrock

    Babe I'm Gonna Leave You !!!!!!

    18 days ago

  • mikesimpson

    The way it used to do.

    19 days ago

  • mikesimpson

    I can hear it calling me !!!

    19 days ago

  • kemp678

    LEGENDARY! :o)

    19 days ago

  • oldiesfanjohn

    More than great------->stupendous,colossal,epic

    25 days ago

  • CidaDuarteF

    Great!!

    last month

  • appidydafoo

    Legendary

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  • jmnixon95

    It really jams.

    last month

  • Svetita

    WHAT-A-SONG!!!

    last month

  • pravdt

    One of the best songs I've heard in my whole life. [ ]

    last month

  • oldiesfanjohn

    Awesome debut,eh?...if Zeps` first didn`t grab ya,don`t know what can be done...you may just be an alien pod person on this planet!

    March 2012

  • Tanja_J

    One of the best songs I've heard in my whole life.

    March 2012
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