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Good Times Bad Times

<p>"<b>Good Times Bad Times</b>" is a song by the English <a href="/en/Rock_music" title="Rock music" class="wl">rock</a> band <a href="/en/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin" class="wl">Led Zeppelin</a>, featured as the opening track on their 1969 debut album <i><a href="/en/Led_Zeppelin_(album)" title="Led Zeppelin (album)" class="wl">Led Zeppelin</a></i>.  The song was Led Zeppelin's first single released in the US, where it reached the <a href="/en/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100" class="wl"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> chart.</p>

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font-size: 125%;">"Good Times Bad Times"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Gtbtsingle.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Gtbtsingle.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/Gtbtsingle.jpg/220px-Gtbtsingle.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" data-file-type="bitmap" height="220" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Gtbtsingle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Gtbtsingle.jpg 2x" alt="Gtbtsingle.jpg"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">German single picture sleeve</div></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: khaki;"><a href="/en/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)" class="wl">Single</a> by <a href="/en/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin" class="wl">Led Zeppelin</a></th></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: khaki;">from the album <i> <a href="/en/Led_Zeppelin_(album)" title="Led Zeppelin (album)" class="wl">Led Zeppelin</a> </i></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/en/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side" class="wl">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"<a href="/en/Communication_Breakdown" title="Communication Breakdown" class="wl">Communication Breakdown</a>"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">10<span>&nbsp;</span>March<span>&nbsp;</span>1969<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1969-03-10</span>)</span> (US)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">October 1968</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Recording_studio" title="Recording studio" class="wl">Studio</a></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/en/Olympic_Studios" title="Olympic Studios" class="wl">Olympic</a>, London</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Music_genre" title="Music genre" class="wl">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/en/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock" class="wl">Hard rock</a><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><span class="duration"><span class="min">2</span>:<span class="s">43</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_label" title="Record label" class="wl">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records" class="wl">Atlantic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/en/Songwriter" title="Songwriter" class="wl">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/en/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page" class="wl">Jimmy Page</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/John_Paul_Jones_(musician)" title="John Paul Jones (musician)" class="wl">John Paul Jones</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/John_Bonham" title="John Bonham" class="wl">John Bonham</a></li></ul>
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding:.2em .1em;">"<b>Good Times Bad Times</b>" <br>(1969)</td>
<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em;">"<a href="/en/Whole_Lotta_Love" title="Whole Lotta Love" class="wl">Whole Lotta Love</a>" <br>(1969)</td></tr>
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"Good Times Bad Times" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured as the opening track on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin.  The song was Led Zeppelin's first single released in the US, where it reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 