![]() We were invited to play a concert in Reykjavik and the day before we arrived all the civil servants went on strike and the gig was going to be cancelled. We were guests of the Icelandic Government on a cultural mission. “We did come from the land of the ice and snow. “We weren't being pompous,” Plant told journalist Chris Welch for his book Led Zeppelin: Dazed Confused. ![]() Though the music was already written, featuring a menacing staccato riff from Jimmy Page, it was while the band were on tour in Iceland that the lyrics were reworked with a Norse war cry and Viking-inspired imagery. On the US 45 RPM single, however, the band had the Alastair Crowley quote “Do What Thou Wilt… So Mote Be It" inscribed into the dead wax. Immigrant Song was the only single released internationally from Led Zeppelin III, but the band were dead set against selling singles in the UK and so it – like all their others – was not available here. What’s that?’ I was like, ‘It’s Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin, one of the most famous songs of all time.’ They were like, ‘Oh cool, never heard it before, very cool.’ “And they were like, ‘Oh that’s really cool. “I put Immigrant Song over the top of it, and then played it for them,” Waititi said in an interview with Den of Geek. And it was partly through his use of Immigrant Song that he secured the Thor job in the first place, having put together a demo reel to showcase what he had in mind for the film. If anything, he’s the most quirky and uniquely talented director that Marvel have hired so far. ![]() A bit like Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn and Captain America’s Russo brothers, Waititi’s career is rooted in comedy and indie films ( Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople). Thor Ragnorak’s director, Taika Waititi, doesn’t come from a typical action movie background. As we've now seen, it plays a prominent part in the film too, being spectacularly included in not one but two epic fight sequences. The partnership of the third Thor instalment and the Seventies rock icons had been laid bare a few months ago when Marvel released a trailer prominently featuring the track. If you’ve already seen Thor Ragnarok, you’ve probably had Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin stuck in your head since you exited the cinema.
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