The 4 Non Blondes recorded this for the 1995 Led Zeppelin tribute album Encomium. They played it again with Jason at the 21st birthday party for Robert Plant’s daughter Carmen, and again in 2007 at a London benefit concert for the Ahmet Ertegun education fund. The band performed this at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in 1988 with Jason Bonham sitting in on drums for his late father. “I missed the misty mountains – the wet Welsh climate,” he told Rolling Stone in 2017. Robert Plant found himself drawn to Wales and eventually settled in Worcestershire, England, near the Welsh border. This begins with John Paul Jones playing electric piano. Plant is a big fan of Tolkien and used references to the Lord Of The Rings series from time to time. In England, it’s understandable, because wherever you go to enjoy yourself, ‘Big Brother’ is not far behind.” Robert Plant said : “It’s about a bunch of hippies getting busted, about the problems you can come across when you have a simple walk in the park on a nice sunny afternoon. This song was about a love-in happening near London that the police came and broke up. The song was off the classic Let Zeppelin IV album that was also known as ZoSo, Ruins, 4 Symbols, and Untitled. Jimmy Page wrote the song one night while the rest of the band was sleeping. Led Zeppelin wrote and recorded this at Headley Grange, a mansion with a recording studio in Hampshire, England, where the band sometimes lived. They wanted fans to buy the complete album and listen to it in context with the other songs.
Led Zeppelin didn’t like releasing singles and only had 10 songs in the Billboard 100. Misty Mountain Hop didn’t chart but Black Dog did peak at #15 in the Billboard 100 in 1972.
The song was released as the B side to Black Dog. The song really kicks in when John Bonham enters.
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