Song Analysis: The Battle Of Evermore

“The Battle of Evermore”, is the third track of the album. It is 5 minutes and 51 seconds long, and is also the least popular or likeable song in the album. The song is about the events that took place in the book Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. “The Battle of Evermore” was recorded using a mandolin and a guest folk singer, Sandy Denny. In the song, Robert Plant played the role of the narrator while Sandy Denny represented the town crier. This is the only Led Zeppelin song ever to be recorded with a guest singer. “Stairway To Heaven” is 8 minutes and 2 seconds long, and it is one of the most famous rock songs of all time, in addition to rumors of the song containing satanic messages when played backwards, which is really not true. “Stairway To Heaven” is about a women getting everything they wanted without giving back. The song was originally going to be 15 minutes long, but Plant and Page decided it was best to shorten it by a few minutes. It was written in an old welsh cottage and recorded at a mobile studio that was owned by the Rolling Stones. The instruments used to perform this song were acoustic guitar, mellotron flutes, Fender Rhodes, and an electric piano holding down the bass from the 1st B section to the C
The lyrics of this song were originally written by Memphis Minnie in 1927. “When The Levee Breaks” is based on the Great Mississippi Flood, in which plantation workers were held at gunpoint, while piling sand bags to save neighboring towns from a disaster. After flood, a majority of plantations were destroyed, although many people had left, many African-Americans were held back, not allowed to leave and were forced to clean up the area. This song has a variety of unique pieces/techniques, such as slowing down the speed/tempo of the instruments, backward echo—the echo ahead of the sound, which was used on a