Chords for Plant & Bonham Interview (1970)

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_ Good evening.
Tonight, a musical surprise as The Beatles' Topple.
Further details in today's developments in the Mrs Mackay murder trial.
The final and tragic conclusion to the case of the missing Enfield children.
And an interview with a man who has led Kent cricketers to victory after 57 years.
But first, hear this.
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_ _ [C] It's cool, it's [G] groovy, it's number one, the lead [N] zeppelin.
The lead, er_
The _ _ _ _ lead, er, what?
The lead zeppelin, but I'm afraid that you and other dads like you, Bob, may never have heard of them.
But this British group has made musical history today.
Readers of the Melody Maker have voted them the top world group.
The significance is that The Beatles have held this title for eight years.
But now, The Beatles are out.
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Eight years ago, The Beatles were four [G] clean-cut and clean [Abm]-shaven young men who had a happy [G] knack for songwriting.
The tunes they wrote and sang were evergreens, as hummable and as immortal as
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas and Autumn Leaves. _
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But a new generation was growing up, a generation [G] to whom Bing Crosby and the Ink Spots meant nothing.
A [B] generation that demanded a new kind of [Dm] music.
[E] Music like the music of the lead zeppelin. _
I think that [E] the last year has seen a bit of a revolution in popular music,
and the death of the personality cult.
_ Lead Zeppelin have taken over where The Beatles left off,
because people are now interested in young musicians,
_ rather than in, say, what Paul McCartney had for breakfast.
People have turned inwards, and they're looking to the young musicians scene.
Lead Zeppelin are good musicians, and people are voting for them,
rather than for an image as they used to years ago.
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The Beatles ran for eight years, and one thinks of a song of theirs, Yesterday,
which had all sorts of variations played upon it.
Do you think as musicians you'll be able to last as long as eight years?
Do you think you'll be inventive enough?
You know, the old thing about being able to whistle the tune,
being able to hum the tune as you go [D] away, I don't think I could hum any of [F] your stuff.
No, but I think it's changing, that's the main thing, you see.
I think that's why the awards have changed, because the kids are changing for a [Abm] start.
And so is the music changing.
I think, well, [Eb] there's already a [A] single out of Whole Lot Of [D] Love, an orchestra playing it,
which is quite [F] interesting, really.
The flute [G] plays what the lead vocal would do.
So you're saying that your fans don't [D] necessarily want to whistle the tunes, to hum the tune.
I don't.
But they're much more sophisticated than, you know, my generation.
Well, I think so.
Well, no, not in that sense.
I think these days, _ _ [G] let's say the public, you know, it's not just, say, the kids,
because we've had all sorts of people at concerts, you [F] know.
I think that they're coming to listen to what you're playing
and not just to look at you and see what you are.
I mean, I remember when I [G] was, let's go back a few years,
when I first went to see The Beatles, because [F] we've mentioned them a few times,
[Ab] it was to look at them, you know.
You didn't really bother what you were listening to.
And today, it's not what you are, it's what you're playing.
Well, this is interesting.
We've heard that [D] the personality cult is dead,
but I'm still going to put one [Ab] of those kind of questions.
I mean, I wouldn't know whether you're a millionaire or not,
but you must be quite rich now.
What's it like having money?
_ Well, John's laughing, because I don't think, I think I must spend a good five pounds a week.
I _ [Abm] think goat and chicken food.
This is keeping your goats in Kidderminster.
[Eb] Yeah.
But having paid for the goat bill, you've got a little bit left over, have you?
Oh, a few shillings and groats and stuff.
No, I think it all boils down to, [E] well, it keeps boiling down.
[D] I mean, in our position, we've spent years and [Abm] years on the road,
[Db] sort of playing in little church halls and being beaten up
and [E] bricks thrown through the van windows and everything.
And to have money at [D] last is just another [N]
figure in my mind of mass acceptance,
which is what we all work for.
I mean, everybody, however much they like to deny the fact,
really wants in the end to be accepted by the majority of people
for being either a talent or a _ commodity.
_ I think that we've reached that stage now,
and it's left to us to keep on coming up with something good.
So we'll be at the Melody Maker, Poll Winners Awards, blah, blah.
Yeah, for a few years to come.
Robert Plant and John Marlin, [E] thank you very much.
And good luck with your 40,000 audience in Medicine Square Garden in New York.
Thank you. Thank you.
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