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- Business Insider (en)
- Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Love", 1969 (en)
- Muddy Waters, "You Need Love", 1962 (en)
- Musician Issue 135-140. p. 45 (en)
- Small Faces, "You Need Loving", 1966 (en)
- Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful... pg. 78 (en)
- Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues pg. 193 (en)
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- You need cooling
Baby I'm not fooling
I'm gonna send ya
Back to schoolin' (en)
- I felt that was more close to me that he wrote is “You Need Love.” If you listen to those words, I feel that. 'You’re frettin’, I’m pettin’, you need love' that would be more soothing to me, more fitting to me that he wrote. And he had a way of speaking to you through his songs. And I feel that that may have been the one. I’ve always said that that was the one he sort of built the story around me. (en)
- Woah you foolin'
Come and get coolin'
I'm gonna send you right back to school, alright
Make your way down the new side girl
You know how woman, you need lovin', lovin', alright (en)
- You've got yearnin' and I got burnin'
Baby you look so, ho, sweet and cunnin'
Baby way down inside, woman you need love
Woman you need love, you've got to have some love (en)
- I ultimately learned... about the “Whole Lotta Love,” because I was typing those songs, and he taught me to write music. So I immediately could recognize one of his songs. He taught me the lyric structure and he taught me the music. So, you know, it became obvious to me after a while listened and listened. I was at girlfriend’s house, and the song came on the radio. And I said, “You know what? That’s my dad’s song.” And she says, "The song is probably as old as you are , and let’s see I’ve got the album,” she said, “If they’ve got your dad’s name on it..." She said to me, “Well, they’ve got another song on here that your dad wrote, "I Can't Quit You Baby", but that’s ["Whole Lotta Love"] not his song. I said, "Oh, yes it is." And she said, "Have you ever heard him singing it?" I said, "No, I haven’t, but he taught me how to write. And I see a similar pattern, either he wrote it or it’s twained [sic], and that’s why." (en)
- Page's riff was Page's riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, 'well, what am I going to sing?' That was it, a nick. Now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that... well, you only get caught when you're successful. That's the game. (en)
- It was fantastic, I loved it, Muddy Waters recorded it but I couldn't sing like Muddy Waters so it wasn't that much of a nick. I was a high range and Muddy was a low range so I had to figure out how to sing it. So I did and that was our opening number for all the years we were together. Every time we were on stage that was our opening number, unless we had a short set. (en)
- Some people said later that “Whole Lotta Love” was based on Willie Dixon’s “You Need Love” and the Small Faces’ “You Need Loving”. My riffthe basis for the entire songsounds nothing like either of them. Robert had referenced the Dixon lyrics because with my riff, they felt right. This eventually forced us to give Dixon a cocredit on our song. But if you take Robert’s vocal out, there’s no musical reference to either song. (en)
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