How Stevie Wonder's funky "Superstition" inspired rock giants Led Zeppelin
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Let's be honest: Between Stevie Wonder and Led Zeppelin. There aren't many parallels... Or rather to say, there are almost none, apart from the fact that they conquered the music scene of late 60s-70sbut again, in completely different genres. What Wonderthat Zeppelin rose to prominence in the sixties and dominated their respective fields in the seventies, yet musically they were always quite different... Wonder built his own brand of funk and disco, demonstrating that he became a stalwart of any DJ worthy of his attention. As for Led Zeppelintheir heavy rock sound will define a generation... Anyway, they have little kinship outside of their success stories, at least you might have thought so until now....
About Wonder's "Superstition"
To tell you the truth, Stevie Wonder shocked the rock 'n' roll world when he became a major artist on the pop music scene! This meant he would take on the lead role on the opening act of the tour The Rolling Stones and would become one of the few acts to transcend any predetermined genre barriers... And great minds from the world of rock like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones. will be equally fascinated by him as a performer! They will also find inspiration in one of his all-time favourite songs - "Superstition.".
The track became the anthem of any party you were lucky enough to attend during those years... Regardless of musical preference or social status, Wonder's "Superstition" has always elicited and, in fact, continues to elicit an overwhelming response and wild dance energy from the audience! This track was also enough to inspire the following Led Zeppelin on the song "Trampled Under Foot"…
How Led Zeppelin composed "Trampled Under Foot."
"Trampled Under Foot" - a famous song by an English rock band Led Zeppelininspired by funk, but sadly not the rhythm. Wonder's "Superstition": written by John Paul JonesThe composition was inspired by the instruments that Stevie used in his aforementioned hit... In particular, John used the clavinet. After his death. John Bonhamtalking about the album Zeppelin (which was never realised) Jimmy Page reminisced:
"...By that time we had already done a tour of Europe. As for the Presence album, it was a guitar album. After that record, John (Paul Jones) bought a Dream Machine, a Yamaha synthesiser. Stevie Wonder had one of those as well. So that gave him a lot of inspiration... He suddenly actually wrote whole numbers, which he hadn't done before, and I thought that was the best thing to use on Paul Jones' keyboard!"
Of note: this song originated from a jam session 1972 of the year, which is why it's being attributed Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.. It's also worth adding that a great deal of effort and time was spent rehearsing the relentless semi-funk riff that dominates this song... John Paul Jones himself admits that it was the Stevie Wonder inspired his beat: according to the musician, the inspiration came to him from the Wonder's "Superstition"…
"I just started playing this track as Bonham came in with this great stomp that had such a great sense of rhythm to it!"
Page played with a pedal Wah-Wah and, as a producer, used back echo on the record. In fact, Paul Jones had been introduced to the clavinet before, but "Trampled Under Foot" is seen as the moment when it all began... Speaking at the Physical GraffitiPaul often mentioned Wonder as his inspiration... Well: if this is true, then it is Wonder to whom Zeppelin fans owe the characteristic rhythm in the "Trampled Under Foot"!
And let it be Stevie Wonder and Led Zeppelin. didn't often cross their styles musically, it's clear that when they did, they presented some of Zeppelin's best work ever....
One last thing...
В 1975 the year the label Zeppelin Swan Song sent out 5,000 copies "Trampled Under Foot" to UK record shops as a sales incentive for the Physical Graffiti album. They were labelled "Special Limited Edition" and became collectors' items. The track was included on Billboard top 40 and eventually became a hit, often played at concerts. Zeppelin.
