"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 |