| Tall Cool One | |
| Cover: | Rptallcoolone.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Robert Plant |
| Album: | Now and Zen |
| B-Side: | White, Clean and Neat |
| Released: | April 1988[1] |
| Recorded: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 4:40 |
| Label: | Es Paranza |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | Heaven Knows |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Ship of Fools |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
"Tall Cool One" is a song by the English rock singer Robert Plant. The song was written by Plant and keyboardist Phil Johnstone, who also co-produced Now and Zen.[2] Former Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page plays guitar on the song.[3] It was the second single released from his fourth solo studio album Now and Zen (1988).
The song features guitar riff samples of Led Zeppelin songs, including "Black Dog",[4] "Dazed and Confused", "Whole Lotta Love",[5] "The Ocean" and "Custard Pie",[6] as well as lyrical references to "Black Dog" and "When the Levee Breaks".[7]
Cashbox magazine called it a "smoking, balls-out rocker with a really unusual skew."[8]
It reached No. 87 on the UK singles chart, No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It was Plant's fourth number-one rock single.[9] [10]
"Tall Cool One" was featured in a television advertisement for Coca-Cola.[11]