"Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English hard rock band Led Zeppelin.
It is the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the United States, several countries in Europe, and Japan as a single; as with other Led Zeppelin songs, no single was released in the United Kingdom.
The US release became their first hit single, being certified Gold on 13 April 1970, having sold one million copies.
It reached number one in Germany, and number four in the Netherlands.
Parts of the song were adapted from Willie Dixon's "You Need Love", recorded by Muddy Waters in 1962; originally uncredited to Dixon, a lawsuit in 1985 was settled with a payment to Dixon and credit on subsequent releases.
mber 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in March 2005, Qmagazine placed "Whole Lotta Love" at number three in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
It was placed 11 on a similar list by Rolling Stone. In 2009 it was named the third greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. In 2014, listeners to BBC Radio 2 voted "Whole Lotta Love" as containing the greatest guitar riff of all time.
Jimmy Page came up with the guitar riff for "Whole Lotta Love" in the summer of 1968, on his houseboat on the River Thames at Pangbourne, England.[6] John Paul Jones has stated that Page's famous riff probably emerged from a stage improvisation during the band's playing of "Dazed and Confused".
Page denied that the song originated onstage and that he had the riff and the rest took it from there.
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