Introduction
Led Zeppelin used to be a rock band in 1960s of English origin. It was actually formed by the name of New Yard birds. Later they change their name to Led Zeppelin. This band consisted of a guitarist, singer, bassist and a drummer. This band gave numerous hits songs over the years. It has reached to a phenomenal success during the period of 1971 to 1975 and turned out to the number one. This band predominantly played music on different genres like jazz, rock, funk, world music, reggae and soul. Among the numerous hits of the rock band the immigrant song gained enormous success in those days.
Immigrant song - an overview
Immigrant song was one of the huge hits from the third album of the band named Led Zeppelin III. Robert plant stats the song with a loud cry along with the F# minor being played by the guitarist Jimmy page. A little hiss and feeble count is found at the beginning of this masterpiece. This song was penned down by the vocalist Robert Plant during their tour of Germany, Iceland and Bath. The band was very inspired from their visit of the three places in the mid of 1960s and devoted this song for it. The band performed this song in the Bath festival for the first time just after their six days visit of Reykjavik. The adventure of Vikings from Scandinavia in the quest for the discovery of the new lands was the main subject of this song. The essence Old Norse religion is very much clear from the writings of the song. It is a rare collection of the singles made by the bad Led Zeppelin. Lines of this song became very famous among the mass. They started to sing it and also considered the band as the ‘Hammer of the Gods’. All the concerts that were done by the rock band during 1970-72 started with the immigrant song.
Influence of the song
This song became very famous among the teenagers of United States. Immigrant song was started to be played by the marching band of the schools. This song became one of the rare songs of the rock band which was portrayed in a film. In the movie ’School of Rocks’ this song was portrayed by the Hollywood actor Jack Black on the podium. The song appeared numerous times in different films in different versions due to the proper licensing liabilities of the song. Not only had the main stream films used this song. There are also other genres of the entertainment industry which had used this song. There was a documentary in which this song appeared. This song also appeared on the television drama series like the ‘Life on Mars’ on the BBC network. Comedians like Denis Leary did a comic transformation of this epic song. This instrumental piece of this song was also used separately in a movie starring Jackie Chan.
Conclusion
The immigrant song since it birth did wonders all over the world. It had topped numerous top rated charts all over the world. This song has also backed many awards for the Led Zeppelin band. It turned out to be a revolution in the music industry.
