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“Royal Orleans” is a song by English rock group Led Zeppelin, from their 1976 album Presence. When in New Orleans on concert tours, members of the group would stay at the Royal Orleans Hotel, and the song is reportedly based on an incident that occurred there. The story goes that, once when staying at the hotel in the early 1970s, John Paul Jones brought a woman from the bar up to his room, unaware she was a transvestite. Both smoked marijuana and fell asleep, the transvestite with a lit joint in her hand, which caught fire and burned the room down (though everyone escaped). The lyrics include lines such as “Be careful how you choose it” and “Poor whiskers set the room alight” to reference the event. The song alludes to the fact that it was John Paul Jones from the... Read on...