"The Rover" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin written by guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant.
[3] Initially an acoustic piece, it took on a hard rock arrangement when recorded at Stargroves during the sessions for the Houses of the Holy album in 1972.
[4] As the liner notes state, for the song, the "Guitar [was] lost courtesy of [engineer Ron] Nevison [and] salvaged by the grace of [Keith] Harwood".
Nevison has disputed this, claiming the band never brought tapes from previous sessions to him for playback and that "The Rover" wasn't one of the songs he recorded with them at Headley Grange.
This rehearsal took place before the opening date of the second leg of the band's 1973 North American tour.