Led Zeppelin Song Pops Up in NBC Olympics Commercial

Once upon a time, Led Zeppelin were strict about licensing their music to corporations for commercials. The wall came down momentarily when Cadillac used IV's "Rock and Roll" in 2004. So imagine our surprise today when — while anxiously today's finale of the Woman's Canoe/Kayak finals (which the Australians took gold and silver in) — NBC aired a commercial promoting their Olympic coverage using Zep's "Bring It On Home" as its soundtrack. Supposedly, "Bring It On Home" is the catch phrase for this summer's Olympics, (with "It" meaning gold medals, which the U.S. is doing quite prodigiously). Here's hoping they start using "Kashmir" in all their training montages.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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