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Hits That Strike A Chord: Find Out Which Popular Songs Are Actually About Historical Events

“When The Levee Breaks” by Led Zeppelin

Sometimes, artists take classic songs and give them their own twist to make them relevant again. That’s exactly with Led Zeppelin’s “When The Levee Breaks,” a tune whose lyrics were written by Memphis Minnie in 1929.

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The English quartet reinvented Minnie’s blues hit as a riff-fest with a head-bobbing lurch to remind the world about the most devastating flood in the history of the U.S.– the Great Mississippi Flood of 1929.

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