Rock snobs will say that calling Led Zeppelin IV one of (if not the) best rock and roll albums of all time is cliché, and you know what? That doesn't make it any less true. That album redefined rock music. It seamlessly blended traditional folk-rock with mind-blowing hard rock and truly carved a way forward in the music industry. Among tracks like "Stairway to Heaven" and "When the Levee Breaks" sits the iconic song "Black Dog."
The call-and-response style between the band's era-defining instrumentals and Robert Plant's powerful voice stirred something inside early-’70s fans, and for those around in 2025, a new, more subdued version evidently does the same. Recently, with his new bluegrass band Saving Grace, Plant sang a scaled-down version of the song and people were still in awe.
robert plant live is so amazing he still sounds great! #ledzeppelin #robertplant #jimmypage #classicrock #fyp
♬ original sound - sarah zambori"I adore any artistic twist on a classic," said one loyal fan.
"This is how it should be done," praised another, alluding to how rockstars should approach “reliving” their glory days.
"He's a living legend, he can do whatever the hell he wants," asserted another.
Plant has expressed numerous times why he refuses to do songs the way his early-20s self did. Aside from struggling with the range, Plant sees that version of himself, the band, and the music as a relic of the time. After drummer John Bonham died, Plant knew that the Led Zeppelin everyone fell in love with was done for good.
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"There's absolutely no point. No point at all," Plant said in his first post-Zeppelin interview in 1982, according to Classic Rock. "There's certain people you don't do without in life... You don't keep things going for the sake of it. There's no functional purpose for keeping things going. For whose convenience? Nobody's, really."
While the band attempted some reunions, the members themselves deemed them "disastrous," and have kept to doing their own personal versions of these classics.
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The History of "Black Dog"
The title of the song, adorably enough, was inspired by a real pup. At the recording studio where the band was laying down tracks for Led Zeppelin IV — Headley Grange — an unnamed black lab roamed around the premises. The band honored him by naming the first track they cut after him, according to American Songwriter.
It was one of the few riffs Jimmy Pagedidn't write. Bassist John Paul Jones constructed it, and was inspired by Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well" and Muddy Waters’ Electric Mud.
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