From the Album: Houses of the Holy (1973)
"The Rain Song" 7:39
Writers: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
Producer: Jimmy Page / Executive Producer: Peter Grant
Recorded: In 1972 at Stargroves, England, with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
- Engineer: Eddie Kramer
- Mixed: In 1972 at Olympic Sound Studios, Barnes, London, by Keith Harwood
Released: On the album Houses of the Holy, March 28, 1973
When George Harrison suggested that Led Zeppelin hadn't written any ballads, Jimmy Page wrote this song as a response. He intentionally used the same chord progression that opens Harrison's "Something" from the Beatles' Abbey Road.