Tangerine (song)

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Tangerine

Appears on  | Led Zeppelin III
Published by  | Superhype Music
Registration  | ASCAP 500230208
Release date  | 5 October 1970
Recorded  | July 1970 at
Island Studios, London.
Mixed at Ardent Studios, Memphis.
Genre  | Folk rock
Language  | English
Length  | 3 minutes 12 seconds
Composer  | Jimmy Page
Label  | Atlantic Records
Producer  | Jimmy Page
Engineer  | Andy Johns

## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 2 Live performances
* 3 Credits
* 4 References

'Tangerine' is a song composed by Jimmy Page and performed by English rock music|rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released on their 1970 album Led Zeppelin III.

## Overview[edit]

The track has an acoustic country flavour courtesy of the pedal-steel guitar playing of Page.[1][2] The song begins with a false start, after which Page pauses to set the right tempo. Throughout its duration, the song continually changes tempo a few bars at a time whilst the lyrics fondly recall love and contentedness. This was the second-to-last Led Zeppelin song Page wrote without any input from Robert Plant. (Bron-Yr-Aur (song)|Bron-Yr-Aur from Physical Graffiti was the last).

The song uses a simple double track vocal pattern to create a recognisable lilting feel. The song uses a standard Am G D C progression for the verses before moving on to G C D progression for the chorus. This was the second Led Zeppelin song to be named after a fruit, the first being 'The Lemon Song'. 'Tangerine' appears in the motion picture Almost Famous, and can be heard during the final scene of the film.

## Live performances[edit]

'Tangerine' was often played live at Led Zeppelin concerts as part of the band's acoustic set from 1971 through 1972, and was revived for the Earl's Court 1975|Earls Court shows of 1975.[3] At these latter performances, Page played the song on his Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck guitar. During the 1975 concert at the Earls Court, Plant said that 'Tangerine' is 'a song of love in its most...innocent stages'.[4]

## Credits[edit]

Personnel

* Musicians:
* Jimmy Page – acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, producer, remastering, digital remastering
* Robert Plant – vocals
* John Paul Jones – bass guitar
* John Bonham - drums, percussion
* Production:
* Peter Grant – executive producer
* Andy Johns - engineer, mixing
* Joe Sidore - original CD mastering engineer (mid-1980s)
* George Marino - remastered CD engineer (1990)

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Lewis, Dave (2012). Led Zeppelin: From a Whisper to a Scream. London: Omnibus Press, 44\. ISBN 978-1-78038-547-1.
2. ↑ Steven Rosen, 1977 Jimmy Page Interview, Modern Guitars, 25 May 2007 (originally published in the July 1977, issue of Guitar Player magazine).
3. ↑ Lewis, Dave (2012). Led Zeppelin: From a Whisper to a Scream. London: Omnibus Press, 38\. ISBN 978-1-78038-547-1.
4. ↑ Led Zeppelin DVD(2003).