Whole Lotta Love

Jimmy Page’s guitar riff in ‘Whole Lotta Love’ has beenvoted the best of all time by BBC Radio 2. Led Zeppelin’s track beat Derekand the Dominos’ ‘Leyla’, The Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘Money’to the top of the chart.

‘I’m knocked out by this because I didn’t expect that tohappen – there's been so many wonderful riffs along the way. I wanted a riffthat really moved, that people would really get, and would bring a smile totheir faces, but when I played it with the band, it really went into overdrive.There was this intent to have this riff and the movement of it, so it wasmenacing as well as quite sort of caressing.’ – Jimmy Page

Pictured left: Recording ‘Whole Lotta Love’ at OlympicStudios, 1969. This photograph is taken from Jimmy Page’s autobiography, whichis available to order here.

Photograph © Dominique Tarle