`Thank You` is a slow ballad and signaled a deeper involvement in songwriting by Plant, being the first Led Zeppelin song that he wrote all the lyrics
`Thank You` is a slow ballad and signaled a deeper involvement in songwriting by Plant, being the first Led Zeppelin song that he wrote all the lyrics for. According to various Led Zeppelin biographies, this is also the song that made Jimmy Page realize that Plant could now handle writing the majority of the lyrics for the band`s songs. The first lines of Plant`s composition heavily resemble those in the Jimi Hendrix song "If 6 Was 9".
The song features some delicate organ playing by John Paul Jones, and ends with the organ fading into near-silence before coming back about 10 seconds later. This has created a problem for radio stations wishing to play the track, which must decide whether to accept the "dead air" or cut it off.
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