Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions - Definition and Overview

Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions is an album featuring, as the title suggests, BBC studio session and concert recordings of Led Zeppelin. It was released November 11, 1997 by Atlantic Records.

Disc 1 is a compilation of songs from three various BBC sessions circa 1969. Disc 2 is a 1971 concert in Paris that had been bootlegged for many years until 1997.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "You Shook Me" (Dixon/Lenoir) - 5:14
2. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon) - 4:22
3. "Communication Breakdown" (Bonham/Jones/Page) - 3:12
4. "Dazed and Confused" (Page) - 6:39
5. "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair" (Bonham/Estes/Jones/Page/Plant) - 3:00
6. "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page/Plant) - 4:20
7. "Communication Breakdown" (Bonham/Jones/Page) - 2:40
8. "Traveling Riverside Blues" (Johnson/Page/Plant) - 5:12
9. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham/Dixon/Jones/Page/Plant) - 6:09
10. "Somethin' Else" (Cochran/Sheeley) - 2:06
11. "Communication Breakdown" (Bonham/Jones/Page) - 3:05
12. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon) - 6:21
13. "You Shook Me" (Dixon/Lenoir) - 10:19
14. "How Many More Times" (Bonham/Jones/Page) - 11:51

Disc 2

1. "Immigrant Song" (Page/Plant) - 3:20
2. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) - 5:16
3. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Jones/Page/Plant) - 6:56
4. "Black Dog"(Jones/Page/Plant) - 5:17
5. "Dazed and Confused" (Page) - 18:36
6. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page/Plant) - 8:49
7. "Going to California" (Page/Plant) - 3:54
8. "That's the Way" (Page/Plant) - 5:43
9. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham/Dixon/Jones/Page/Plant) - 13:45
10. "Thank You" (Page/Plant) - 6:37

Personnel

• Jimmy Page - Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Mastering, Compilation Producer
• Robert Plant - Vocals
• Jon Astley - Mastering
• John Paul Jones - Bass
• John Bonham - Drums
• Chris Walter - Photography
• Andie Airfix - Art Direction, Design
• Luis Rey - Liner Notes

External links

• The Garden Tapes (http://www.simplyled.net/thegardentapes.html) - analysis of live tracks edits for the album