Coda (album)

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Coda

Compilation album by Led Zeppelin
Released	November 19, 1982
Recorded	January 9, 1970 - November 21, 1978
Genre	Hard rock Blues rock Heavy metal
Length	33:04
Label	Swan Song
Producer(s)	Jimmy Page, Peter Grant
All Music Guide link
Led Zeppelin chronology
In Through the Out Door (1979)	Coda (1982)	Box set (1990)

Coda is an album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1982.

1 Overview
2 Track listing
3 Credits
4 Production
5 Charts
- 5.1 Album
- 5.2 Singles
6 Additional notes
7 External links

[edit] Overview

This album of out-takes from various sessions during Led Zeppelin's twelve-year career was released two years after the group had officially disbanded, following the death of drummer John Bonham. The word Coda, meaning the final passage of a musical structure, was therefore chosen as a suitable title.

"We're Gonna Groove" opens the album and, according to the album notes, was recorded at Morgan Studios in June, 1969. It was later acknowledged to have come from a January, 1970 concert at the Royal Albert Hall, with the guitar parts overdubbed in places. "Poor Tom" is from sessions for Led Zeppelin III. "I Can't Quit You Baby" is taken from the same concert as "We're Gonna Groove" but was listed as a rehearsal in the original liner notes. "Walter's Walk" is from the 1972 Houses of the Holy sessions, although debate remains as to the chronological origin of the vocal performance by Robert Plant (which may have been recorded or overdubbed at a later date).

"Ozone Baby", "Darlene", and "Wearing and Tearing" are outtakes from the In Through the Out Door sessions in 1978. "Bonzo's Montreux" is a 1976 John Bonham drum instrumental with electronic effects added by Jimmy Page. This song would later be included on both boxed sets, being combined with Bonham's Moby Dick drum solo on the 1990 Led Zeppelin boxed set, and as an individual track on the 1993 Led Zeppelin boxed set 2.

The inner liner features a collage of photographs. The main photo on the right side — showing the band members apparently clapping — was taken the day before their Knebworth appearances in 1979 and in that village. However, the band were dissatisfied with the image, and their images — and the ground where they stand — are all that remain from that photo. Superimposed behind the band is a photo of a green field in Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, England, near Bonham's home.

[edit] Track listing

"We're Gonna Groove" (Bethea, King) – 2:40
"Poor Tom" (Page, Plant) – 3:01
"I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon) – 4:17
"Walter's Walk" (Page, Plant) – 4:31
"Ozone Baby" (Page, Plant) – 3:35
"Darlene" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) – 5:06
"Bonzo's Montreux" (Bonham) – 4:17
"Wearing and Tearing" (Page, Plant) – 5:31

In 1993 four bonus tracks were added to the album on the edition included in the career-spanning box set Complete Studio Recordings:

"Baby Come on Home" (Berns, Page, Plant) – 4:30
"Traveling Riverside Blues" (Johnson, Page, Plant) – 5:11
"White Summer/Black Mountain Side" (Page) – 8:01
"Hey Hey What Can I Do" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) – 3:55

All the four bonus tracks had appeared before on the boxed sets series: "Baby Come on Home" was first released earlier that year (1993) on the Boxed Set 2, and the other three were on the Boxed Set (1990).

[edit] Credits

John Bonham - drums
John Paul Jones - bass, piano, keyboards
Jimmy Page - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Robert Plant - vocals, harmonica

[edit] Production

Producers: Jimmy Page, Peter Grant
Executive producer: Peter Grant
Engineers: Stuart Epps, Andy Johns, Eddie Kramer, Vic Maile, Leif Mases, John Timperley
Electronic treatments: Jimmy Page

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1982	Billboard's Pop Albums	6

[edit] Singles

Billboard (North America) It's important to note that, prior to March 21, 1981, Billboard did not produce a Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, so the charted tracks from Coda are Led Zeppelin's first entries on that chart.