{"id":362136,"date":"2025-12-21T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362136\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:41:09","slug":"the-led-zeppelin-song-to-feature-all-four-members-on-vocals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362136\/","title":{"rendered":"The Led Zeppelin song to feature all four members on vocals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Led<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ julio zeppelin)<\/p>\n

Sun 21 December 2025 15:15, UK <\/p>\n

To ignore Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2019s debut album as one of the pivotal moments in rock history would be to forget a large chunk of modern music as we know it today. The blues-heavy sound laid the foundations for heavy metal and countless other genres and it shook the music scene to its core. While The Beatles and The Stones were getting trippy, Zeppelin had got heavy, real heavy.<\/p>\n

But while they were happy to lay down some serious heft, the group also found themselves drawn to things of the past, including, it would seem, the odd choral harmony. <\/p>\n

Nobody was ever going to replace Robert Plant as the lead singer of\u00a0Led Zeppelin. The band members\u2019 responsibilities were more or less set in stone: Plant on vocals, Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass, and John Bonham on drums. That was where the magic was created, and none of the members felt like messing with that.<\/p>\n

However, there was some room for additional manoeuvring. Jones was famously a multi-instrumentalist, bringing keyboards into the band\u2019s sound to widen their scope. Both Jones and Page took turns playing the mandolin on the group\u2019s folk material, while Bonham occasionally lent his voice to harmony vocals with Plant on songs like \u2018The Ocean\u2019 and \u2018Bron-Y-Aur Stomp\u2019.<\/p>\n

On one occasion, Page did circumvent Jones to lay down a bass part for the coda to \u2018That\u2019s The Way\u2019 from Led Zeppelin III<\/a>. \u201cI was doing a bunch of overdubs and got excited. John Paul Jones went home, so I put the bass part on it as well!\u201d Page explained in the book Light and Shade. \u201cThat didn\u2019t happen often, believe me!\u201d But thanks to their group unity and understanding of what made the band special, few credits are out of place in the Zeppelin discography.<\/p>\n

That makes it strange, then, that on the band\u2019s debut album, all four members are credited with providing vocals. Songs like \u2018Good Times, Bad Times\u2019 and \u2018Communication Breakdown\u2019 clearly feature Plant overdubbing his own harmony vocals, so where do the full-band vocal credits come in? That would be on \u2018Your Time Is Gonna Come\u2019, the opening track to side two.<\/p>\n

The origins of \u2018Your Time Is Gonna Come\u2019 began with Page attempting to play an out-of-tune steel guitar in the studio. \u201cI had never played steel before, but I just picked it up,\u201d Page later told Guitar Player magazine. \u201cIt sounds like a slide or something. It\u2019s more out of tune on the first album because I hadn\u2019t got a kit to put it together.\u201d From there, a Jones organ intro and a series of chorus vocals from all four members fleshed out the track.<\/p>\n

\u2018Your Time Is Gonna Come\u2019 was one of the only tracks from the band\u2019s debut that never experienced any confirmed live performances. By the time Zeppelin stormed America for their first tour in 1968, \u2018Your Time Is Gonna Come\u2019 didn\u2019t make the cut for their live setlists.<\/p>\n

Check out the studio version of \u2018Your Time Is Gonna Come\u2019 down below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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