![]() ![]() Īccording to the guitarist, the time spent at Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970 it was just an automatic thing to be playing. This wonderful countryside, panoramic views and having the guitars. So we took our guitars down there and played a few bits and pieces. I certainly hadn't been to that area of Wales. ![]() We had this time off and Robert suggested the cottage. We'd been working solidly right up to that point. Robert (Plant) and I went to Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970. People at the cottage during this time were Plant's wife Maureen and 18-month-old daughter Carmen, Page's girlfriend Charlotte Martin, and Led Zeppelin roadies Clive Coulson and Sandy MacGregor. Though the cottage had no running water or electricity, they used it as a retreat to write and record some of their third album, Led Zeppelin III. In 1970, Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page spent time there after a long and gruelling concert tour of North America. The cottage was used as a holiday home during the 1950s by the family of future Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant. In 1970, both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant went there, and wrote many of the tracks that appeared on the band's third and fourth studio albums. For the Led Zeppelin song, see Bron-Yr-Aur (instrumental).īron-Yr-Aur ( Welsh for "breast of the gold", or by extension, "hill of the gold" or "golden hill" Welsh pronunciation: ) is a privately owned 18th-century cottage, on the outskirts of Machynlleth, in Montgomeryshire, mid- Wales, best known for its association with the English rock band Led Zeppelin. This article is about the cottage in Wales. ![]()
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