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How the West Was Won
Live album by Led Zeppelin
Released	May 27, 2003
Recorded	June 1972
Genre	Hard rock Folk Rock Blues Rock
Length	150:27
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Jimmy Page
Professional reviews
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Led Zeppelin chronology
Latter Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two (2000) How the West Was Won (2003) Mothership (2007)

How the West Was Won is a triple live album by English rock group Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on CD on May 27, 2003 and DVD-Audio on October 20, 2003. These original performances are from the band's 1972 concert tour of the United States, recorded at the L.A. Forum on June 25, 1972 and Long Beach Arena on June 27, 1972. Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak, as mentioned in the liner notes.

For many years, live recordings of these two shows only circulated in the form of bootlegs, and even then only certain audience recordings were available to fans and collectors (for example, Burn Like a Candle). Though several soundboard recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts were circulated amongst fans after having been stolen from Page's personal archive some time in the 1980s, no soundboards of the 1972 Long Beach or LA Forum shows were taken, meaning the release of How the West Was Won was the first chance fans had of hearing the soundboard versions of these concerts.

The songs from the two shows underwent some extensive editing and audio engineering by Page at SARM West Studios in London before being released on the album. A comprehensive analysis of live tracks edits for the album can be found at The Garden Tapes. Some songs which were played at the concerts, such as "Communication Breakdown" and a rare version of "Louie Louie" from the June 25 show, were left off How the West Was Won.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart on June 14, 2003 at number 1, with sales of 154,000 copies. It remained on the chart for 16 weeks. It was certified gold and platinum record awards by the RIAA on June 30, 2003. The album became the first Led Zeppelin album since 1979's In Through the Out Door to reach the #1 position.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two 1.3 Disc three 2 Personnel 2.1 Additional personnel 3 Additional notes 4 External links

1. "LA Drone" (Jones/Page) – 0:14*
2. "Immigrant Song" (Page/Plant) – 3:42*
3. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 7:25*
4. "Black Dog" (Jones/Page/Plant) – 5:41**
5. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Page/Plant) – 5:08**
6. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Jones/Page/Plant) – 8:02*
7. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page/Plant) – 9:38*
8. "Going to California" (Page/Plant) – 5:37*
9. "That's the Way" (Page/Plant) – 5:54**
10. "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" (Jones/Page/Plant) – 4:55*

1. "Dazed and Confused" (Holmes/Page/Bonham) – 25:25**
   • "Walter's Walk" (Page/Plant)
   • "The Crunge" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) - 15:34
2. "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page/Plant) – 4:41*
3. "Dancing Days" (Page/Plant) – 3:42*
4. "Moby Dick" (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 19:20**

1. "Whole Lotta Love" Medley (Bonham/Dixon/Jones/Page/Plant) – 23:08**
   • "Boogie Chillun" (Hooker) – 3:10
   • "Let's Have a Party" (Robinson) – 1:56
   • "Hello Mary Lou" (Pitney) – 2:08
   • "Going Down Slow" (Oden) – 8:29
2. "Rock and Roll" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 3:56*
3. "The Ocean" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 4:21**
4. "Bring It On Home" (Dixon/Page/Plant) – 9:30**
   • "Bring It On Back" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)

* From the Long Beach Arena. ** From the LA Forum.

• Jimmy Page – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals, producer
• Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica
• John Paul Jones – bass guitar, bass pedals, keyboards, mandolin, backing vocals
• John Bonham – drums, percussion, backing vocals

• Eddie Kramer – engineer
• Kevin Shirley – engineer, mixing
• Drew Griffiths – sound assistant
• Phil Lemon – design, artwork
• Jim Cummins – photography
• James Fortune – photography
• Jeffrey Mayer – photography
• Michael Putland – photography

• Engineered and mixed at SARM West Studios, London, March 2003.
• Catalogue: Atlantic 7567835872.

• The Garden Tapes - analysis of live tracks edits for the album

v • d • e Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page · Robert Plant · John Paul Jones · John Bonham
Studio albums	Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin II · Led Zeppelin III · (Led Zeppelin IV) · Houses of the Holy · Physical Graffiti · Presence · In Through the Out Door
Live albums	The Song Remains the Same · BBC Sessions · How the West Was Won
Compilations	Coda · Box Set · Profiled · Remasters · Box Set 2 · Complete Studio Recordings · Early Days · Latter Days · Mothership
Films	The Song Remains the Same · Led Zeppelin DVD
Performances	Scandinavia 1968 · U.K. 1968 · North America 1968/1969 · U.K. & Scandinavia 1969 · North America Spring 1969 · U.K. Summer 1969 · North America Summer 1969 · Europe Autumn 1969 · North America Autumn 1969 · U.K. 1970 · Europe 1970 · North America Spring 1970 · Iceland, Bath & Germany 1970 · North America Summer 1970 · U.K. Spring 1971 · Europe 1971 · North America 1971 · Japan 1971 · U.K. Winter 1971 · Australasia 1972 · North America 1972 · Japan 1972 · U.K. 1972/1973 · Europe 1973 · North America 1973 · North America 1975 · Earl's Court 1975 · North America 1977 · Knebworth 1979 · Over Europe 1980
Related	Discography · Peter Grant · Richard Cole · Swan Song · The Yardbirds · XYZ · The Firm · Page and Plant · Strange Sensation · Bootlegs · The Starship

Preceded by 14 Shades of Grey by Staind

Billboard 200 Number 1 Album June 14, 2003 - June 20, 2003

Succeeded by St. Anger by Metallica