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| Album =#REDIRECT [[Physical Graffiti]]▼
{{Infobox song <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Down by the Seaside
| Artist = [[Led Zeppelin]]
▲| Album = [[Physical Graffiti]]
| Released = {{Start date|1975|02|24|df=y}}
| Recorded = [[Island Studios]], London, 1971
| Genre = [[Country rock]]<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/physical-graffiti-mw0000190771
| title = Physical Graffiti – Album Review
| last = Erlewine
| first = Stephen Thomas
| authorlink = Stephen Thomas Erlewine
| work = [[AllMusic]]
| accessdate = 25 October 2014
}}</ref>
| Length = {{Duration|m=5|s=16}}
| Label = [[Swan Song Records|Swan Song]]
| Writer =
*[[Jimmy Page]]
*[[Robert Plant]]
| Producer = Jimmy Page
}}
"'''Down by the Seaside'''" is a ballad by English [[Rock and roll|rock]] band [[Led Zeppelin]] from their 1975 album ''[[Physical Graffiti]]''.
==Overview==
The song was originally written as an [[Acoustic music|acoustic]] piece by [[Jimmy Page]] and [[Robert Plant]] at [[Bron-Yr-Aur]], the cottage in [[Wales]] where they went after their 1970 [[concert]] tours of North America.<ref name="Sutcliffe_Q">Phil Sutcliffe, "Back to Nature", ''Q Magazine'' Special Led Zeppelin edition, 2003, p. 34.</ref><ref name=Complete>Dave Lewis (1994), ''The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin'', Omnibus Press, {{ISBN|0-7119-3528-9}}.</ref> It was then recorded in [[1971 in music|1971]] as an electric arrangement and was intended for release on ''[[Led Zeppelin IV]]'' but was held over and eventually placed on ''Physical Graffiti'' to complete the double album.
The title may be a reference to the [[Neil Young]] song "[[Down by the River (Neil Young song)|Down by the River]]" and the somewhat nasal inflection in Plant's vocals may be an homage to Young's distinctive voice.<ref name=Complete/> The song alternates between soft and hard-rocking sections and changes in tempo, with the lighter sections employing a tremolo effect on the guitar, or possibly by running it through a [[Leslie speaker]], to give an 'underwater talking' feel. [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]] plays a [[Hohner]] "Electra-Piano" [[electric piano]] on the track. "Down by the Seaside" was never performed live at [[Led Zeppelin concerts]].<ref name=Complete/>
Plant later recorded "Down by the Seaside" as a duet with [[Tori Amos]] for the [[1995 in music|1995]] Led Zeppelin [[tribute album]] ''[[Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin|Encomium]]''.
==Personnel==
* [[Robert Plant]] – vocals
* [[Jimmy Page]] – guitar
* [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]] – bass guitar, [[electric piano]]
* [[John Bonham]] – drums
==Cover versions==
{{Main|List of cover versions of Led Zeppelin songs}}
==Sources==
*Lewis, Dave (2004) ''The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin'', {{ISBN|0-7119-3528-9}}
*Welch, Chris (1998) ''Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song'', {{ISBN|1-56025-818-7}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*{{MetroLyrics song|led-zeppelin|down-by-the-seaside}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider -->
{{Physical Graffiti}}
{{Led Zeppelin}}
[[Category:Led Zeppelin songs]]
[[Category:1975 songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Jimmy Page]]
[[Category:Songs written by Robert Plant]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Jimmy Page]]
[[Category:Tori Amos songs]]
[[Category:Vocal duets]]
[[Category:Country rock songs]]
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