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Niall Doherty

How Led Zeppelin created the impossible-to-copy rhythmic swing of Black Dog. "I wrote it on a bit of paper on the train"

Led Zeppelin in 1971.

“It is good, isn’t it?” said Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin’s fourth album. “You get the feeling of the creativity of this band. It’s just coming in with full force.”

That force was never more evident than on the album’s opening track, the mighty Black Dog. Based on a cartwheeling riff bassist John Paul Jones had been ‘inspired’ to develop after listening to the similarly shaped Tom Cat by Muddy Waters.

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