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On this day, 8th Nov 1971, the 4th (and untitled) Led Zeppelin album was released.

For me, the greatest rock album of all time by the greatest rock band of all time.

Black Dog
Rock And Roll
The Battle Of Evermore
Stairway To Heaven
Misty Mountain Hop
Four Sticks
Going To California
When The Levee Breaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV

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@diver said
On this day, 8th Nov 1971, the 4th (and untitled) Led Zeppelin album was released.

For me, the greatest rock album of all time by the greatest rock band of all time.

Black Dog
Rock And Roll
The Battle Of Evermore
Stairway To Heaven
Misty Mountain Hop
Four Sticks
Going To California
When The Levee Breaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV

https://youtu.be/0hLESLXqBLI
Do you know if the Black Dog track was in reference to Winston Churchill? (It's how he described his depression).

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
Do you know if the Black Dog track was in reference to Winston Churchill? (It's how he described his depression).
I believe the title was inspired by the presence of a black Labrador dog which used to wander in and around the Headley Grange studios where the band were recording the album.

As far as I know the song itself is about relationships starting, breaking down, lust, betrayal etc.

So I would think the reference to depression is coincidental.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
Do you know if the Black Dog track was in reference to Winston Churchill? (It's how he described his depression).
ask of the internet
and ye shall receive
the decision is yers
if you choose to believe

https://genius.com/Led-zeppelin-black-dog-lyrics

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@diver 633 days earlier my favourite was released

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@diver

Maybe I have been thinking along similar lines, considering what would have been released 50 years ago.

I don't play music much any more (please let nobody worry -- I still have music in my head), but I think that if I restricted myself just to music from 1975, there would be plenty of good stuff to choose from, and the same for playing 1976 music in 2026.

Oh! BTW, when I was in high school, one year we took a vote (with five songs on the ballot) to pick the theme song for prom (it's an American thing -- I don't know if they do that in GB). "Stairway to Heaven" was the winner, but I had voted for Cat Stevens' "Oh Very Young". 😉

The song of Led Zep's I like the most is "All of My Love" -- who can object to a song with a line like this: "Proud Arianne one word my will to sustain" ?