LED ZEPPELIN Classic 'Too Racy' For Olympics
August 23, 2008UK's Telegraph reports that LED ZEPPELIN's rock classic "Whole Lotta Love" has been deemed too racy by Olympics organizers.
After choosing the song for the closing ceremony on Sunday, they decided that some of the lyrics would have to be omitted or re-written amid concerns that they could cause offense.
The song was chosen as the centrepiece of an eight-minute £2.5million British segment at the event in Beijing at which the Olympic flag will be officially passed to the London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Organizers of the London 2012 Games commissioned the band's guitarist Jimmy Page to record a new version of the song to be performed on top of a special red double-decker bus accompanied by Leona Lewis, winner of the ITV reality television show "The X Factor", with David Beckham looking on.
But, according to London 2012 officials, Lewis — who grew up in east London close to the Olympic site — requested a change to the song's second verse because she was worried they would not make sense for a female singer.
In the original, recorded in 1969, frontman Robert Plant sings, "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love".
But in the version that will be sung tomorrow (Sunday, August 24),however, Lewis changes the words to "every bit" of my love.
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