Shining in the Light (song)

{{Short description|1998 song by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant}}

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"Shining in the Light" is a song by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant from their 1998 studio album Walking into Clarksdale. Issued as the album's second single on 30 May 1998, the song reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.{{Cite web|title=Robert Plant|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/robert-plant/|access-date=2022-01-03|website=Billboard|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234835387|title=Joel Whitburn presents Rock tracks 1981-2008.|date=2008|publisher=Record Research|isbn=0-89820-174-8|location=Menomonee Falls, Wis.|pages=186|oclc=234835387}}

The track contains an overdubbed string section performed by Page on the Mellotron. Added as a guide, the overdub was inadvertently left in for the album release.{{Cite book|last=Page|first=Jimmy|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1203144576|title=Jimmy Page: The Anthology|date=2020|publisher=Genesis Publications|isbn=978-1-905662-61-6|location=Guildford, Surrey, England|pages=347|oclc=1203144576}}

Track listings

{{Track listing

| headline = UK release

| title1 = Shining in the Light

| writer1 = Page, Plant, Jones, Lee

| length1 = 4:01

| title2 = How Many More Times (Live At Shepherds Bush Empire)

| writer2 = Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham

| length2 = 11:18

| note1 =

| all_writing =

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = European release

| title1 = Shining in the Light

| writer1 = Page, Plant, Jones, Lee

| length1 = 4:01

| title2 = Walking Into Clarksdale (Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire)

| writer2 = Page, Plant, Jones, Lee

| length2 = 11:18

| note1 =

| all_writing =

| title3 = No Quarter (Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire)

| writer3 = Page, Plant, John Paul Jones

| total_length =

| length3 = 9:48

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = US release

| title1 = Shining in the Light

| writer1 = Page, Plant, Jones, Lee

| length1 = 4:01

| note1 =

| all_writing =

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese releasehttps://www.discogs.com/release/5792582-Jimmy-Page-Robert-Plant-Shining-In-The-Light

| title1 = Shining in the Light

| writer1 = Page, Plant, Jones, Lee

| length1 = 4:01

| title2 = How Many More Times (Live At Shepherds Bush Empire)

| writer2 = Page, John Paul Jones, Bonham

| length2 = 11:18

| note1 =

| all_writing =

| title3 = Walking Into Clarksdale (Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire)

| writer3 = Page, Plant, Jones, Lee

| title4 = No Quarter (Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire)

| writer4 = Page, Plant, John Paul Jones

| length3 = 6:17

| length4 = 9:48

}}

References