Paul Elliott

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“I feel like Cliff was my ally in the battle”

“Certainly, we don’t want to fail. We’ve never really known much failure”

“Every word in that song is chock full of meaning”

“It was a hook, although I knew it didn’t really make sense”

“We were out for world domination!”

“That song had to stay on that one chord to maintain the tension of the whole thing”

“His guitar playing was beautiful”

“It has a lot of power, it has wonderful orchestration and incredible playing”

“We didn’t have a mic stand so we used a standing lamp and taped the mic to it”

“Roy Thomas Baker spent most of the time just barking orders”

Less surprisingly, he said “it was party time in the studio”

And why he thinks that Norwegian black metal ruled in the ’90s

According to Zeppelin's manager, Harrison called it “the greatest night of my life!”

“We went in to make demos. We didn’t go in to make a record”

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“It’s just pure, soul-wrenching emotion”

“There was none of me on that record – I was just AWOL mentally”

And why he once sang about himself as “a visionary”