In My Time of Dying
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| Song by Led Zeppelin | ||
| from the album 'Physical Graffiti' | ||
| Released | February 24, 1975 | |
| Recorded | 1974 | |
| Genre | Blues rock | |
| Length | 11:04 | |
| Label | Atlantic Records | |
| Writer(s) | Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham | |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Page | |
| 'Physical Graffiti' track listing | ||
| "The Rover" (2) |
"In My Time of Dying" (3) |
"Houses of the Holy" (4) |
"In My Time of Dying" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. It is a traditional folk/blues song, based on the song "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed", recorded by Blind Willie Johnson and later covered by Joshua White, Bob Dylan (on his eponymous debut album) and Martin Gore. The song is the band's longest studio track, clocking in at 11:06.
"In My Time of Dying" was played during Led Zeppelin's 1975 and some of their 1977 concert tours, where Robert Plant dedicated the song to the British Labour Party's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. The band never had a proper way to end the song, because of its improvisational nature, and Page liked the approach making the band sound like "a working group". The studio version ends with: "Oh, don't you make it my dyin', dyin', dyin'..." and at this point a member of the band or recording crew (possibly John Bonham) can be heard coughing. Plant humourously adds 'cough' as an apt final word for the song. Bonham can be heard exclaiming, "That's gonna be the one, hasn't it?" Ironically, Plant was not too keen on singing the song after suffering his car crash in 1975, and had later remarked, "Why the hell did I sing that song?"
Jimmy Page performed this song on his tour with The Black Crowes in 1999. A version of "In My Time Of Dying" performed by Page and The Black Crowes can be found on the album Live at the Greek.
[edit] Trivia
- This was one of the few live songs where Jimmy Page switched to his black and white Danelectro guitar. He also used this guitar for "White Summer" and "Kashmir".
[edit] Sources
- Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song, by Chris Welch, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
- The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin, by Dave Lewis, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9
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