We thought, "Well, if there's that much interest, then we may as well put the rest of our studio stuff out". Guitarist Jimmy Page explained that part of the reasoning for the album's release related to the popularity of unofficial Led Zeppelin recordings which continued to be circulated by fans: " Coda was released, basically, because there was so much bootleg stuff out. According to Martin Popoff, "there's conjecture that Jimmy called 'We're Gonna Groove' a studio track and 'I Can't Quit You Baby' a rehearsal track because Swan Song owed Atlantic one more studio album specifically." Atlantic counted the release as a studio album, as Swan Song had owed the label a final studio album from the band. The album was a collection of eight tracks spanning the length of Zeppelin's twelve-year history. It cleared away nearly all of the leftover tracks from the various studio sessions of the 1960s and 1970s. The fifth Swan Song Records album for the band, Coda was released to honour contractual commitments to Atlantic Records and also to cover tax demands on previous monies earned. The word coda, meaning a passage that ends a musical piece following the main body, was therefore chosen as the title. It was released on 19 November 1982, almost two years after the group had officially disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham. The album is a collection of rejected tracks from various sessions during Led Zeppelin's twelve-year career. This includes the almost complete demo collection to a 3 minute 40 second excerpted version with bass and drums.9 January 1970 – 21 November 1978, overdubs 1981Ĭoda is the first compilation album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. īootlegs containing Led Zeppelin's 'Swan Song' have since surfaced from the late 1980s onwards. Page and Rodgers in the Firm, later developed this further with the nine minute epic 'Midnight Moonlight', off their eponymous debut album The Firm. Singer Paul Rodgers who joined Page, added lyrics. It wasn't until the band split and Page played a song entitled 'Bird on the Wing' during the 1983 ARMS charity concerts that fans were able to hear what some of 'Swan Song' sounded like. 'Swan Song' became regarded as a 'lost epic' amongst fans. Due to substantial material already recorded for Physical Graffiti, plans to include it on the double album were dropped, and only the audio sketches remained. The song's name was leaked numerous times over the following weeks to the music press, until 4 April 1974, in an article in the New Musical Express, the name Swan Song Records was chosen as Led Zeppelin's new label. The ambitious project was an attempt to musically represent summer, autumn, winter, and spring. A total of fourteen overdubbed guitar parts were used. Demo tapes of over sixty minutes worth of unedited material have since surfaced which includes Mellotron passages, classical acoustic guitar, and occasional bass and drums. 'Swan Song' was intended as a four seasons-style suite of songs for the band's sixth album, Physical Graffiti. It was one of the most rumoured songs in the Led Zeppelin catalogue during the history of the band.
An epic suite of mostly acoustic driven material, it officially remains unreleased, and has only appeared on bootleg recordings. The track was composed by Jimmy Page, and recorded at Headley Grange, Hampshire, England, in February 1974. ' Swan Song' is a 1974 instrumental song by English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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