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"Royal Orleans" is a song by English rock group Led Zeppelin, from their 1976 album ''Presence''. ==Overview== When in New Orleans on concert tours, members of the group would stay at the Royal Orleans Hotel, and the song is reportedly based on an incident that occurred there.〔Dave Lewis (1994), ''The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin'', Omnibus Press, ISBN 978-0-7119-3528-0.〕 The story goes that once, when staying at the hotel in the early 1970s, John Paul Jones brought a woman from the bar up to his room, unaware "she" was actually a transvestite. Both smoked marijuana and fell asleep, the transvestite with a lit joint in his hand, which caught fire and burned the room down (though everyone escaped). The lyrics include lines such as "Be careful how you choose it" and "Poor whiskers set the room alight" to reference the event. The song alludes to Jones' involvement with the lyrics: Cameron was a rival of Jones during his career as a session musician. The song also alludes to Barry White.〔 In an interview he gave to ''Mojo magazine'' in 2007, Jones clarified the reliability of the story, stating that: "Royal Orleans" is the only song on the album credited to all four members (or any members besides Robert Plant and Jimmy Page). Vocalist Robert Plant wrote most of the lyrics, using the song as a way to poke fun at Jones, allegedly because of a comment Jones once made that vocals were the least important part of the band. The song was the B-side of "Candy Store Rock". Drummer John Bonham played bongo drums on this track.〔 The song was never performed live by the band.〔 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「Royal Orleans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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