Single:
Big Log entered the Australian singles chart* on 19 September 1983 and peaked at #23.
Album:
The song is on The Principle of Moments which entered the Australian albums chart* on 29 August 1983 and peaked at #10.
Songwriters:
Robert Plant, Robbie Blunt, Jezz Woodroffe
Producers:
Robert Plant, Benji LeFevre, Pat Moran
Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Plant’s lyrics were often influenced by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien. Big Log is a mythical, extended metaphor for a lost love: “My love is in league with the freeway… My love is the miles and the waiting.” A “big log” is common lingo of tractor trailer drivers. It is the book in which their road hours are logged, therefore the connection between the road and love and the countless hours we all log on both.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/robert-plant/big-log
Wikipedia – the video:
The music video for the song was filmed around California and Nevada, including the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley Junction, California, the Calico Ghost Town in California, the Glass Pool Inn in Las Vegas, and in Crystal, Nye County, Nevada and was directed by Storm Thorgerson.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Log
Lyrics:
My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by
And the taillights dissolve, in the coming of night
And the questions in thousands take flight
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