Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin song)

"Rock and Roll"
"Rock and Roll"
	German single picture sleeve
Single by Led Zeppelin
from the album Led Zeppelin IV
B-side	"Four Sticks"
Released	21 February 1972 (US)
Recorded	January 1971; February 1971
Studio	Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Headley Grange, Hampshire; Island Studios, London
Genre	Rock and roll; hard rock;
Length	3:40
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	John Bonham; John Paul Jones; Jimmy Page; Robert Plant;
Producer(s)	Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin singles chronology

"Rock and Roll" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as the second track on their fourth studio album in 1971. The song contains a guest performance by original Rolling Stones' pianist and co-founder Ian Stewart. In 1972, American music critic and journalist Robert Christgau called it "simply the most dynamic hard-rock song in the music."^[5]

^ ^a ^b Guesdon & Margotin 2018, p. 250.
^ Bashe, Philip (1985). Heavy Metal Thunder: The Music, Its History, Its Heroes. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-19797-7. Besides his inspired phrasing and his extemporaneous howls and asides, Plant could convincingly convey slow blues ("You Shook Me"), gutbucket rock & roll ("Rock and Roll"), and even folk ballads ("Going to California"), in a strong, cutting voice
^ "The 40 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time – 'Rock and Roll' (1971)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b Schuman, Michael A. (2009). Led Zeppelin: Legendary Rock Band. Enslow Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7660-3026-8. The fourth album also has its share of hard rock tracks. Three that received a lot of radio airplay are "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop," and the appropriately named "Rock and Roll."
^ Christgau, Robert (15 June 1972). "A Power Plant". Newsday. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[FOOTNOTEGuesdonMargotin2018250-1] Guesdon & Margotin 2018, p. 250.

[2] Bashe, Philip (1985). Heavy Metal Thunder: The Music, Its History, Its Heroes. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-19797-7. Besides his inspired phrasing and his extemporaneous howls and asides, Plant could convincingly convey slow blues ("You Shook Me"), gutbucket rock & roll ("Rock and Roll"), and even folk ballads ("Going to California"), in a strong, cutting voice

[3] "The 40 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time – 'Rock and Roll' (1971)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 21 May 2014.

[Schuman-4] Schuman, Michael A. (2009). Led Zeppelin: Legendary Rock Band. Enslow Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7660-3026-8. The fourth album also has its share of hard rock tracks. Three that received a lot of radio airplay are "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop," and the appropriately named "Rock and Roll."

[5] Christgau, Robert (15 June 1972). "A Power Plant". Newsday. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

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