# Led Zeppelin - is this a legend?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 20, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-this-a-legend/246201 "2004-05-20T15:40:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Contrabass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Contrabass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrabass)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-this-a-legend/246201/21 "2004-05-21T03:01:21Z")

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Not to hijack the thread entirely or anything, but I have a different Led Zepplin song question. In The Ocean (on Houses of the Holy) at 1:38 and 1:41, is that a telephone ringing in the background of the recording? It sounds like it to me, very faint, in the next room or something. Or am I totally just hearing things every time I hear that particular song?

To be slightly on-topic, if that really is Mr Plant having the Big O in the song… well, he’s a very odd sounding man. Anyway, that part must have been totally shocking for the parents back then!

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-this-a-legend/246201/22 "2004-05-21T05:04:48Z")

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> [@E-Sabbath](#):
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> I can tell you that half of Stairway, is ripped off from a group called ‘Spirit’ that they performed with in the 60’s. The song, I forget the title, is off the group’s eponymous album, Spirit. The song, I believe, is Taurus, but it starts slightly farther in than Amazon’s sampler, which ends just at that point.  
> [Link to Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002AEA/qid=1085107836/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/103-2167904-9207863?v=glance&s=music)  
> [Led Zeppelin](http://www.warr.org/zep.html)

Hey I remember them!

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A lot of good bands came out of LA back then, all forgotten except Buffalo Springfield and the Doors. Frank Zappa was right - they were unfairly overshadowed by San Francisco.

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-this-a-legend/246201/23 "2004-05-21T06:24:17Z")

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Hah! The sexiest sounds on record are the background “vocals” on **Frank Zappa** ’s track _The Torture Never Stops_. It’s a good and long and forms a great, uh, soundtrack when you’re Loving The One You’re With.

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