Bron-Yr-Aur
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '27.6 " N , 3 ° 52' 9.1" W.
Bron-Yr-Aur ( Welsh for "Golden Hill") is an 18th century house. It is two kilometers northwest of Machynlleth in Wales . It is best known in connection with the British rock band Led Zeppelin .
The house was used as a holiday home by the family of the future Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant from the 1950s . In 1970 he and guitarist Jimmy Page spent a long time there after a long and exhausting tour of the USA. Although the hut had no running water or electricity, they used it as a refuge and to write and record some songs for their next album, Led Zeppelin III . Meanwhile Plant's wife Maureen, her 18-month-old daughter Carmen, Page's friend Charlotte Martin, and Led Zeppelin roadies Clive Coulson and Sandy MacGregor were also in the house. Jimmy Page said afterwards that the time in the cabin meant that he and Robert Plant had only really got to know each other. Since they had their guitars with them, one thing led to another and they began to write.
Led Zeppelin songs that can be traced back to the time in Bron-Yr-Aur include: a. Over the Hills and Far Away and The Crunge (both from Houses of the Holy ), The Rover , Stairway to Heaven and Down by the Seaside (from Physical Graffiti ), Poor Tom (from Coda ) and Friends , Bron-Y-Aur Stomp and That's the Way (by Led Zeppelin III ). There are also two songs, Another Way To Wales and I Wanna Be Her Man , which never appeared on a Led Zeppelin album.
Web links
- Neil Prior: The Machynlleth cottage that inspired Led Zeppelin. In: BBC News . April 18, 2015 (English).