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| Length = | Label = Atlantic 2690 (US) | Writer = | Producer = Jimmy Page | Certification = Gold | Last single = "Good Times Bad Times" / "Communication Breakdown" (1969) | This single = "Whole Lotta Love" / "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" (1969) | Next single = "Immigrant Song" / "Hey Hey What Can I Do" (1970) | Misc = }} "Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English hard rock band Led Zeppelin. It is the opening track on the band's second album, ''Led Zeppelin II'', and was released in the United States and Japan as a single. The US release became their first hit single, it was certified Gold on 13 April 1970, having sold one million copies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Whole+Lotta+Love%22 )〕 As with other Led Zeppelin songs, no single was released in the United Kingdom, but singles were released in Germany (where it reached number one), the Netherlands (where it reached number four), Belgium and France. In 2004, the song was ranked number 75 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in March 2005, ''Q'' magazine placed "Whole Lotta Love" at number three in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. It was placed 11 on a similar list by ''Rolling Stone''. In 2009 it was named the third greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.〔 Already part of their live repertoire, "Whole Lotta Love" saw its first official release on the LP ''Led Zeppelin II'' on 22 October 1969 (Atlantic LP #8236). In 2014, listeners to BBC Radio 2 voted "Whole Lotta Love" as containing the greatest guitar riff of all time. ==Song construction== The song is in compound AABA form. Page played the loose blues riff for the intro, on a Sunburst 1958 Les Paul Standard guitar through a Vox Super Beatle, which ascends into the first chorus. Then, beginning at 1:24 (and lasting until 3:02) the song dissolves to a free jazz-like break involving a theremin solo and a drum solo and the orgasmic moans of Robert Plant. As audio engineer Eddie Kramer has explained: "The famous Whole Lotta Love mix, where everything is going bananas, is a combination of Jimmy and myself just flying around on a small console twiddling every knob known to man." Kramer is also quoted as saying: Led Zeppelin's bass player John Paul Jones has stated that Page's famous riff probably emerged from a stage improvisation during the band's playing of "Dazed and Confused". Alternatively, Jimmy Page has vehemently denied that the song originated onstage: In a separate interview, Page explained: For this track, Page employed the backwards echo production technique.〔 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「Whole Lotta Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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