{"id":486473,"date":"2019-05-30T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=842073"},"modified":"2019-05-30T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:09:08","slug":"flashback-jimmy-page-and-sean-diddy-combs-take-on-godzilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-jimmy-page-and-sean-diddy-combs-take-on-godzilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Jimmy Page and Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs Take on \u2018Godzilla\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/em><\/a> arrives in theaters this weekend. It\u2019s a sequel to 2014\u2019s Godzilla<\/em> where the enormous beast wreaked havoc in San Francisco and battled Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe. Despite receiving somewhat mixed reviews, the film grossed over $500 million and guaranteed a sequel. This new movie sees Godzilla battle his old foe Mothra and meet up with Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga and Kyle Chandler.<\/p>\n

One thing it won\u2019t have is even a passing reference to Roland Emmerich\u2019s 1998 Godzilla<\/em>. That movie was the first time that Hollywood tried to take the Japanese classic and turn it into an American blockbuster. The hype for the movie was endless and included a Taco Bell tie-in, action figures, wall-to-wall commercials and a soundtrack featuring Rage Against the Machine, Ben Folds Five, Green Day, the Wallflowers covering David Bowie\u2019s \u201cHeroes\u201d and, most memorably, Sean \u201cDiddy Combs\u2019 song \u201cCome With Me.\u201d This was near the pinnacle of Diddy\u2019s commercial career and he recruited Jimmy Page<\/a> to replay his parts from Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2019s 1975 classic \u201cKashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song hit just as Page was re-teaming with Robert Plant for Walking Into Clarksdale<\/em>, their first studio album together since Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980. Unsurprisingly, \u201cCome With Me\u201d got significantly more attention than any of the songs on Walking Into Clarksdale<\/em>, even if some of it was from Zeppelin fans that found the whole thing sacrilegious and more than a little ridiculous. After all, Jimmy Page had finally coaxed Robert Plant back into the studio after nearly two decades and he felt this was the time for Puffy\u2019s take on \u201cKashmir?\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s easy to forget that many big movies from that era were paired with high-profile songs that often became enormous hits. Think of Titanic<\/em> and Celine Dion\u2019s \u201cMy Heart Will Go On,\u201d Armageddon<\/em> and Aerosmith\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Miss a Thing\u201d and Men in Black<\/em> and Will Smith\u2019s \u201cMen in Black.\u201d The songs promoted the movies just as the movies promoted the songs. They all went into heavy rotation on MTV, basically providing free commercials for the films. Everyone made a fortune.<\/p>\n

But none of those other songs featured Diddy rapping over a Led Zeppelin song. And with all due respect to Page and Combs, it wasn\u2019t aged very well. Check out the video right here and judge for yourself.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing like \u201cCome With Me\u201d on the Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/em> soundtrack, but next year Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> is coming out. Maybe Jimmy Page and Puff Daddy<\/a> are locked away in the studio as we speak redoing \u201cBlack Dog\u201d or \u201cAchilles Last Stand\u201d for it, but let\u2019s hope not.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Godzilla: King of the Monsters arrives in theaters this weekend. It\u2019s a sequel to 2014\u2019s Godzilla where the enormous beast wreaked havoc in San Francisco and battled Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe. Despite receiving somewhat mixed reviews, the film grossed over $500 million and guaranteed a sequel. This new movie sees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 05:49:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}