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Bron-Yr-Aur (Welsh for "breast of the gold", or by extension, "hill of the gold" or "golden hill";〔"...or rather a hill is so called from Bron, a breast, it being a most common way with the Welsh to name hills by metaphors from the parts of the body." (【引用サイトリンク】title=Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thesaurus )〕 (:brɔn.ər.aɪr)), sometimes misspelled as Bron-Y-Aur, is a privately owned 18th-century cottage, on the outskirts of Machynlleth, Wales, and best known for its association with the English rock band Led Zeppelin. ==Overview== The cottage was used during the 1950s by the family of future-Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant as a holiday home.〔Phil Sutcliffe, "Back to Nature", ''Q Magazine'' Special Led Zeppelin edition, 2003, p. 34.〕〔Nigel Williamson, "Good Times...Bad Times", ''Uncut'', May 2005, p. 54.〕 In 1970, Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page spent time there after a long and gruelling concert tour of North America. Though the cottage had no running water or electricity, they used it as a retreat to write and record some of their third album, ''Led Zeppelin III''. People at the cottage during this time were Plant's wife Maureen and 18-month-old daughter Carmen, Page's girlfriend Charlotte Martin, and Led Zeppelin roadies Clive Coulson and Sandy MacGregor. Page has explained that: According to the guitarist, the time spent at Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970 Led Zeppelin songs which can be traced to Plant and Page's time at Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970 include "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "The Crunge" (both from ''Houses of the Holy''), "The Rover", "Bron-Yr-Aur" and "Down by the Seaside" (from ''Physical Graffiti''), "Poor Tom" (from ''Coda'') and three they actually used on ''Led Zeppelin III'': "Friends", "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" and "That's the Way". There were also two songs recorded, called "Another Way To Wales" and "I Wanna Be Her Man", which never found their way onto an official Led Zeppelin album.〔 A primitive recording of the latter of these can however be heard on bootleg label Antrabata's studio outtakes sessions.〔(Led Zeppelin Live - Outtakes Rehearsels Soundchecks )〕 When on-stage for Page and Plant's ''Unledded'' reunion in 1994, Plant announced to the audience that Page's daughter, Scarlet Page, was conceived "about half an hour" after "That's the Way" was written at Bron-Yr-Aur.〔 Led Zeppelin used the name of the house in the title of their songs: "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" (the name of the house being accidentally misspelled on the album cover), and "Bron-Yr-Aur". "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" is a country music inflected hoedown on ''Led Zeppelin III'', in which Robert Plant waxes lyrical about walking in the woods with Strider, his blue eyed merle dog. Contrastingly, "Bron-Yr-Aur" is a gentle, acoustic instrumental by Page on the six-string guitar, which appeared on the later album ''Physical Graffiti'' and in the film ''The Song Remains the Same''. "Bron-Y-Aur" is also the name of the secret instrumental track at the end of ''Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness'', the third album from Coheed and Cambria. The track has a similar sound to the Led Zeppelin song of the same title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bron-Yr-Aur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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