How the West Was Won

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How the West Was Won
Live album by Led Zeppelin

Publication
(s)

May 27, 2003

Label (s) Atlantic Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Hard rock , blues rock

Title (number)

18th

running time

150: 27

occupation

production

Jimmy Page

chronology
Latter Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two
(1969) 		How the West Was Won -

How the West Was Won is a live album by the hard and blues rock band Led Zeppelin . It was released in 2003 by Atlantic Records . It contains live recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts on June 25, 1972 at the LA Forum and June 27, 1972 at the Long Beach Arena .

In 2003 the songs were officially launched after years of illegally only available as bootlegs . The album made it to number one on the Billboard 200 chart , although the band has ceased to exist in 1980, with more than 154,000 copies sold .

The album consists of three CDs that contain all material from both concerts.

LA Drone on CD 1 is only 14 seconds long and contains only fan calls. Dazed and Confused on CD 2 and Whole Lotta Love on CD 3 are medleys of three and five songs respectively.

Track list

CD 1
  1. LA Drone - 0:14 (*)
  2. Immigrant Song - 3:42 (*)
  3. Heartbreaker - 7:25 (*)
  4. Black Dog - 5:41 (**)
  5. Over the Hills and Far Away - 5:08 (**)
  6. Since I've Been Loving You - 8:02 (*)
  7. Stairway to Heaven - 9:38 (*)
  8. Going to California - 5:37 (*)
  9. That's the Way - 5:54 (**)
  10. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - 4:55 (*)
CD 2
  1. Dazed and Confused (Walter's Walk, The Crunge) - 25:25 (**)
  2. What Is and What Should Never Be - 4:41 (*)
  3. Dancing Days - 3:42 (*)
  4. Moby Dick - 19:20 (**)
CD 3
  1. Whole Lotta Love ( Boogie Chillun - 3:10, Let's Have a Party - 1:56, Hello Mary Lou - 2:08, Going Down Slow - 8:29) - 23:08 (**)
  2. Rock and Roll - 3:56 (*)
  3. The Ocean - 4:21 (**)
  4. Bring It On Home ( incl.Bring It On Back ) - 9:30 (**)

Titles marked with (*) were recorded in the Long Beach Arena, titles marked with (**) in the LA Forum.

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