"Tall Cool One" | ||||
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Single by Robert Plant | ||||
from the album Now and Zen | ||||
B-side | "White, Clean and Neat" | |||
Released | April 1988 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1987 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 4:40 | |||
Label | Es Paranza | |||
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Robert Plant singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Tall Cool One" on YouTube |
"Tall Cool One" is a song by the English rock singer Robert Plant. The song was written by Plant and keyboardist Phil Johnstone, who also co-produced Now and Zen. [2] [3] Former Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page plays guitar on the song. [4] It was the second single released from his fourth solo studio album Now and Zen (1988).
The song features guitar riff samples of Led Zeppelin songs, including " Black Dog", [5] " Dazed and Confused", " Whole Lotta Love", [6] " The Ocean" and " Custard Pie", [7] as well as lyrical references to "Black Dog" and " When the Levee Breaks". [8]
Cashbox magazine called it a "smoking, balls-out rocker with a really unusual skew." [9]
It reached No. 87 on the UK singles chart, No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It was Plant's fourth number-one rock single. [10] [2]
"Tall Cool One" was featured in a television advertisement for Coca-Cola. [11]
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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Australia ( ARIA) [12] | 47 |
UK Singles ( OCC) [13] | 87 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [14] | 25 |
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard) [15] | 1 |
"Tall Cool One" ... ended with a few strokes of "Custard Pie" and "The Ocean," to bring Plant's historical record full circle.