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词条 Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin song)
释义

  1. Composition and recording

  2. Releases and performances

  3. Reception

  4. Charts

      Single    Single (digital download)  

  5. Cover versions

  6. References

  7. External links

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| name = Over the Hills and Far Away
| cover = Over_the_Hills_and_Far_Away45.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Netherlands single picture sleeve
| type = single
| artist = Led Zeppelin
| album = Houses of the Holy
| B-side = Dancing Days
| released = {{Start date|1973|05|24|df=y}} (US)
| format = 7-inch 45 rpm
| recorded = 1972
| studio = Stargroves, East Woodhay, England
| genre =
  • Folk rock[1]
  • hard rock[2]

| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=42}}
| label = Atlantic
| writer =
  • Jimmy Page
  • Robert Plant

| producer = Jimmy Page
| prev_title = Rock and Roll
| prev_year = 1972
| next_title = D'yer Mak'er
| next_year = 1973
| misc = {{Audio sample
| type = single
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"Over the Hills and Far Away" is the third track from English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1973 album Houses of the Holy. It was released as a single, with "Dancing Days" as the B-side, in the US.

Composition and recording

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant originally constructed the song in 1970 at Bron-Yr-Aur, a small cottage in Wales where they stayed after completing a gruelling North American concert tour.[3] The song was first called "Many, Many Times", as shown on a picture of the original master on the Led Zeppelin website.[4]

Page plays a six-string acoustic guitar introduction and repeats the theme with a 12-string acoustic guitar in unison. This leads into section led by electric guitar with the whole of the band.

Through the pre-verse interludes and instrumental bridge, "Over the Hills and Far Away" stands out as an example of Jones and Bonham's tight interplay. Following the final verse, the rhythm section fades out, gradually replaced by the echo returns from Page's electric guitar and a few chords played by Jones on Clavinet.[5] In the final 8 bars, Page executes a linearly descending/ascending sequence and then concludes with the idiomatic V-I cadence on synth imitating a pedal steel guitar.

Releases and performances

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The song was released as Houses of the Holy's first US single, reaching #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, later becoming a staple of the classic rock radio format.

Set lists from Led Zeppelin concerts frequently contained "Over the Hills and Far Away", the song being one that the band introduced on stage well ahead of its studio release.[6] The live recording on How the West Was Won, a combined edit of the concerts on 25 and 27 June 1972, was the second public performance of the song. In his spoken introduction to the song before the performance of 27 June 1972 in Long Beach, California, Robert Plant says "we did this song once before, the night before last at the Forum, and it was too much, really great." The band continued to play it on the rest of the 1972 concert tour of North America and retained it consistently through 1979, before omitting it from their final tour of Europe in 1980. In singing the song live in 1973 and later concerts, Plant often substituted the opening lyrics of the second verse ("Many have I loved, many times been bitten") with the opening lyrics of the third verse ("Many times I've lied, many times I've listened"). He also commonly followed the words "pocket-full of gold" with "Acapulco Gold" (a type of marijuana), as can be heard on the live album How the West Was Won. From 1973 on, he sang the second and the third verses in a lower register because of the growing damaging of his vocals. Also, at concerts guitarist Jimmy Page performed an extended guitar solo, which essentially consisted of the rhythm and lead guitar parts of the album version split into two separate pieces. This extended solo made the live renditions last seven minutes or more.

Archive footage of this track being performed live at Seattle in 1977 and at Knebworth in 1979 was used for an officially distributed video of the song, used to promote the 1990 Led Zeppelin Remasters release.[6] The video accompanied a CD single which was released following the successful "Travelling Riverside Blues" release.[7]

Reception

In a contemporary review for Houses of the Holy, Gordon Fletcher of Rolling Stone criticized "Over the Hills and Far Away", calling the track dull, as well as writing the track is "cut from the same mold as "Stairway To Heaven", but becomes dull without that song's torrid guitar solo".[8]

The song has received greater acclaim in more recent years. Rolling Stone ranked "Over the Hills and Far Away" at No. 16 in its list of "The 40 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time" in 2012.[9] Andrew Unterberger of Spin, in 2014, ranked "Over the Hills and Far Away" as Led Zeppelin's best song, writing that it "best demonstrates just about everything the band does well: the unforgettable and impossible-to-pin-down opening riff, the life-affirming transition from acoustic to electric, the constant switches in tone and dynamic, the piercing solo with double-tracked climax, the impeccable interplay of guitar, bass, and drum, the inimitable Plant shrieking, the gorgeous coda, even the super-oblique title".[10] Critic Bill Wyman, writing for Vulture.com in 2015, ranked it as Led Zeppelin's 6th best song.[11]

Charts

Single

Chart (1973)Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart[12]51
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles Chart[13]28
US Record World 100 Top Pop Chart[14]31
Canadian RPM Top 100 Chart[15]63

Single (digital download)

Chart (2007)Peak position
US Billboard Hot Digital Songs Chart[16]63

Cover versions

{{Main|List of cover versions of Led Zeppelin songs}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/houses-of-the-holy-mw0000190648|title=Houses of the Holy – Album Review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|authorlink=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|website=AllMusic|accessdate=25 October 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/|title=Led Zeppelin: Over the Hills and Far Away – Song Review|last=Downing|first=Brian|website=AllMusic|accessdate=24 October 2014}}
3. ^{{cite news|first=Phil|last=Sutcliffe|title=Back to Nature|work=Q|edition=Special Led Zeppelin|year=2003|page=34}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://discography.ledzeppelin.com/disc_hoth.html|title=Led Zeppelin's official Website HOTH|work=Led Zeppelin|accessdate=2011-11-16}}
5. ^{{cite journal|last=Tolinski|first=Brad|last2=di Benedetto|first2=Greg|date=January 1998|title=Light and Shade: A Historic Look at the Entire Led Zeppelin Catalogue Through the Eyes of Guitarist/Producer/Mastermind Jimmy Page|work=Guitar World}}
6. ^{{cite book|first=Dave|last=Lewis|year=1994|title=The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=0-7119-3528-9}}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Dave|year=2003|title=Led Zeppelin: The 'Tight but Loose' Files: Celebration II|edition=1st|location=London|publisher=Omnibus Press|page=62|isbn=1-84449-056-4}}
8. ^{{cite web|last1=Fletcher|first1=Gordon|title=Houses of the Holy|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/houses-of-the-holy-19730607|website=Rolling Stone|accessdate=14 August 2017|date=7 June 1973}}
9. ^{{cite web |title=The 40 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-40-greatest-led-zeppelin-songs-of-all-time-20121107 |website=RollingStone.com |accessdate=2017-12-07 |date=2012-11-07}}
10. ^{{cite web |last1=Unterberger |first1=Andrew |title=All 87 Led Zeppelin Songs, Ranked |url=https://www.spin.com/2014/09/led-zeppelin-every-song-ranked/ |website=Spin.com |accessdate=2017-12-07 |date=2014-09-29}}
11. ^{{cite web |last1=Wyman |first1=Bill |title=All 74 Led Zeppelin Songs, Ranked from Worst to Best |url=http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/all-74-led-zeppelin-songs-ranked.html |website=Vulture.com |accessdate=2017-12-07 |date=2015-07-30}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/1973-07-28/hot-100|title=Hot 100 Singles - 28 July 1973|work=Billboard|accessdate=2009-01-17|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208135924/http://www.billboard.com/charts/1973-07-28/hot-100|archivedate=8 February 2013}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19730804.html|title=Top 100 Singles - 4 August 1973|work=Cash Box|accessdate=2009-01-17}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/muggy59/1973.html|title=Top 40 for 1973 - August 1973|work=Record World|accessdate=2009-01-19|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930005233/http://www.geocities.com/muggy59/1973.html|archivedate=2004-09-30}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4898&volume=19&issue=25&issue_dt=August%2004%201973&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=hrg50o22lgammqcogv27ve6d95|title=RPM Singles Chart - 4 August 1973|work=RPM|accessdate=2009-01-19}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2007-12-01/digital-songs|title=Hot 100 Digital Songs - 1 December 2007|work=Billboard|accessdate=2009-01-19|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116062747/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2007-12-01/digital-songs|archivedate=16 January 2015}}

External links

  • "Over the Hills and Far Away" at ledzeppelin.com
  • {{MetroLyrics song|led-zeppelin|over-the-hills-and-far-away}}
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