Kashmir

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Written by: John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Produced by: Page
Released: March '75 on Swan Song
Charts: Non-single

While vacationing in southern Morocco, Plant conjured the lyrics for Led Zeppelin's most ambitious experiment, the centerpiece of 1975's Physical Graffiti. As he traveled the desert in northwest Africa, Plant envisioned himself driving straight through to Kashmir. Meanwhile, back in the band's studio in rural England, Page and Bonham began riffing on an Arabic-sounding set of chords that would perfectly match Plant's desert vision. John Paul Jones' string arrangement provided the crowning touch, ratcheting up the song's mystic grandeur to stadium-rock proportion.

Appears on: Physical Graffiti (Atlantic)

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