It's 1969. You just picked up your copy of Led Zeppelin II. You've just finished side one. You flip it over.
You are smacked in your face with arguably the greatest riff in rock and roll history.
The iconic guitar solo in the middle was actually recorded separately from the rest of the track - and Jimmy Page used a pull-off technique that inspired guitar virtuosos for decades.
Led Zeppelin was a great blues band who manged to get volume turned up to 11, and this song was arguably their magnum opus.
Even though he originally recorded it separate from the rest of the track, hearing and watching Jimmy Page performing what is almost inarguably his greatest solo of all time, live, embellishing the hell out of it, is incredible. This performance is from 1979.
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