MotoGP Qatar 2013

What a great comeback!

Pos.	Rider	Bike	Nation	Points
1	Jorge LORENZO	Yamaha	SPA	25
2	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	ITA	20
3	Marc MARQUEZ	Honda	SPA	16
4	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	SPA	13
5	Cal CRUTCHLOW	Yamaha	GBR	11
6	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Honda	SPA	10
7	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	Ducati	ITA	9
8	Nicky HAYDEN	Ducati	USA	8
9	Andrea IANNONE	Ducati	ITA	7
10	Ben SPIES	Ducati	USA	6
11	Aleix ESPARGARO	ART	SPA	5
12	Randy DE PUNIET	ART	FRA	4
13	Hector BARBERA	FTR	SPA	3
14	Yonny HERNANDEZ	ART	COL	2
15	Hiroshi AOYAMA	FTR	JPN	1

Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore (and the story behind it)

 The Battle of Evermore

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Battle of Evermore" is a folk rock duet sung by Robert Plant and Sandy Denny, 

featured on Led Zeppelin's 1971 untitled fourth album. 

The song is well known for its acoustic guitar and mandolin playing.

Writing and production

The song was written by Jimmy Page at Headley Grange while he was experimenting on the mandolin 

owned by John Paul Jones. 

As Page explained in 1977:

"Battle of Evermore" was made up on the spot by Robert [Plant] and myself. I just picked up John Paul Jones's mandolin, never having played a mandolin before, and just wrote up the chords and the whole thing in one sitting. 

Musical references

The song, like some others by the group, makes references to The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. Plant felt he needed another voice to tell the story, and for the recording of the song, folk singer Sandy Denny was invited to duet with Plant. Denny was a former member of British folk group Fairport Convention, with whom Led Zeppelin had shared a bill in 1970 at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. Plant played the role of the narrator and Denny represented the town crier. Page elaborated:

The song sounded like an old English instrumental first off. Then it became a vocal and Robert did his bit. Finally we figured we'd bring Sandy by and do a question-and-answer-type thing.

To thank her for her involvement, Denny was given the symbol on the album sleeve of three pyramids (the four members of Led Zeppelin each chose their own symbols for the album). This is the only song Led Zeppelin ever recorded with a guest vocalist. In an interview he gave in 1995 to Uncut magazine, Plant stated:

For me to sing with Sandy Denny was great. We were always good friends with that period of Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson is a superlative guitarist. Sandy and I were friends, and it was the most obvious thing to ask her to sing on "The Battle of Evermore". If it suffered from naivete and tweeness—I was only 23—it makes up for it in the cohesion of the voices and the playing.

Live performances

"The Battle of Evermore" was played live at Led Zeppelin concerts during the band's 1977 North American Tour. For these live performances, Jones sang Denny's vocals with Plant and played acoustic guitar whilst Page played mandolin. Sometimes John Bonham sang Denny's vocals instead of Jones. Page and Plant also recorded a version of the song in 1994, released on their album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded. 

Singer Najma Akhtar sang Denny's vocal part.