Jimmy Page Dug Up 'Long-Lost' Led Zeppelin Demo: Listen to 'The Seasons'

Something has come to the light.

According to reports, Jimmy Page had unearthed a previously unreleased demo back in 1972 titled "The Seasons."

The demo is pretty uneventful as it is only an instrumental arrangement save for the fact that it eventually became the basis of their 1973 song, "The Rain Song."

The guitarist released the demo for fans to take a listen to, and captioned it with its history: "My original idea for the opening tracks for 'Houses Of The Holy' was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to 'The Seasons'."

As per the rocker, he worked on the song in his own home using his multitrack recorder.

"Later to be titled 'The Rain Song'. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song."

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During the song's conception, the music scene in the 1970s were experimental and artists would look for ways to innovate their song.

Page explained that his process in making the sound of the song was not different-despite wanting to be set apart from the sound of the time.

"'The Seasons' was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I'd had for it in its embryonic stage," he explained.

"I'd worked on it over one evening at home. During the routining of the overture now titled 'The Plumpton and Worcester Races', the half time section was born and the overture shaped in to the song, 'The Song Remains The Same'. These rehearsals were done in Puddle Town on the River Piddle in Dorset, UK."

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Aside from the "The Seasons" coming a long way from its conception, the song it eventually became to be is quite memorable in itself.

Page shared how Led Zeppelin came to record the song on the same recording truck as one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history.

"The first set of recordings were done at Olympic Studios with George Chkiantz. We then came to record at Stargroves, Sir Mick Jagger's country home, and, like Headley Grange, with THE ROLLING STONES recording truck," he said.

According to reports, Page had initially said that the demo for the Led Zeppelin song was lost over time, however, it seems like he managed to find it.

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Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page