Description
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant – No Quarter / Fontana Audio CD 1994 / 5263622
UPC 731452636225
Product Details:
Editorial Reviews:
Original Import pressing features a track not available on US Reissued Remastered version, 'Thank You'. The song, 'Yallah' as titled here on the original version was also renamed for the US reissues, 'The Truth Explodes'. This Import version also features the original artwork. Warner.
No Quarter is a live album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 14 October 1994. The long-awaited reunion between Jimmy Page and Robert Plant occurred on a 90-minute "UnLedded" MTV project, recorded in Morocco, Wales, and London. It was not a reunion of Led Zeppelin, however, as former bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones was not present. In fact, Jones was not even told about the reunion by his former bandmates. He later commented that he was unhappy about Plant and Page naming the album after "No Quarter", a Led Zeppelin song which was largely his work.
In addition to acoustic numbers, the album features a reworking of Led Zeppelin classics featuring a Moroccan string band and Egyptian orchestra supplementing a core group of rock and roll musicians, along with four Middle-Eastern and Moroccan-influenced songs: "City Don't Cry", "Yallah" (or "The Truth Explodes"), "Wonderful One", and "Wah Wah".
The album was #4 on debut on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
Several years later, Plant reflected on the collaboration very positively:
The will and the eagerness with Unledded were fantastic and [Page] was really creative. Jimmy and I went in a room and it was back. His riffs were spectacular. To take it as far as we did, and the tour we did – it's one of the most ambitious and mind altering experiences.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Nobody's Fault But Mine | 4:06 |
| 2 | Thank You | 5:48 |
| 3 | No Quarter | 3:45 |
| 4 | Friends | 4:37 |
| 5 | Yallah
Producer [Percussion Pre-production] – Martin Meissonnier |
4:59 |
| 6 | City Don't Cry | 6:08 |
| 7 | Since I've Been Loving You | 7:30 |
| 8 | The Battle Of Evermore | 6:41 |
| 9 | Wonderful One
Producer [Percussion Pre-production] – Martin Meissonnier |
4:57 |
| 10 | Wah Wah | 3:59 |
| 11 | That's The Way | 5:35 |
| 12 |
Gallows Pole | 4:09 |
| 13 | Four Sticks | 4:52 |
| 14 | Kashmir | 11:42 |
More Details:
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin – Jimmy Page
- Bass, Percussion – Charlie Jones
- Bendir [Egyptian Ensemble], Percussion [Merwas - Egyptian Ensemble], Finger Cymbals [Egyptian Ensemble] – Ibrahim Abdel Khaliq
- Cello [London Metropolitan Orchestra] – Ben Chappell, Caroline Dale, Cathy Giles, Jonathan Tunnel, Stephen Milne
- Design – Cally
- Directed By [Musical Director - Egyptian Ensemble], Percussion [Dobolla - Egyptian Ensemble] – Hossam Ramzy
- Drums, Percussion – Michael Lee
- Guitar, Banjo – Porl Thompson
- Hurdy Gurdy – Nigel Eaton
- Management – Bill Curbishley
- Mandolin, Bodhrán – Jim Sutherland
- Musician [Marrakech] – Abdelhak Eddahmane, Brahim El Balkani, El Mahjoub El Mathoun, Hassan El Arfaoui
- Ney [Nay - Egyptian Ensemble] – Bashir Adel Al
- Organ [Hammond], Arranged By [Arrangements For English & Egyptian Ensemble] – Ed Shearmur
- Oud [Egyptian Ensemble] – Abdel Salam Kheir
- Percussion [Duf - Egyptian Ensemble], Bendir [Egyptian Ensemble] – Ali Abdel Salem, Farouk El Safi
- Percussion [Reque - Egyptian Ensemble], Bendir [Egyptian Ensemble] – Farid Khashab
- Photography By – Andy Earl
- Producer – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
- Recorded By, Mixed By – Mike Gregovich
- Strings [Egyptian Ensemble] – Amin Abdel Azim, Bahig Mikhaeel, Hanafi Soliman
- Strings [Egyptian Ensemble], Soloist [Strings] – Wael Abu Bakr
- Viola [London Metropolitan Orchestra] – Andrew Brown (16), Andrew Parker (2), Bill Hawkes, Jane Atkins, John Jezard, Nichalas Pendlebery, Rusen Gunes
- Violin [London Metropolitan Orchestra] – Ann Morlee, Cathy Thompson, Clare Thompson, David Juritz, David Ogden, Ed Coxon, Harriet Davies, Ian Humphries, Jeremy Williams (2), Jessica O'Leary, Elisabeth Layton, Mark Berrow, Pauline Lowbury, Perry Montague-Mason, Peter Hanson, Rita Manning, Rosemary Furniss
- Vocals – Najma Akhtar, Robert Plant
About the Artists:
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of the English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the title Page and Plant. The pair re-united in 1994 and, after recording a live acoustic album, they embarked on a world tour. They then recorded a second full studio album of original songs, followed by another world tour, before disbanding at the end of 1998. They later briefly reunited in 2001.
