Sold Date: May 1, 2014
Start Date: April 9, 2014
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Catalog Number: SD-8216

CONDITION DETAILS Thick vinyl (140 gram).

MATRIX:
SIDE ONE: ST-A 681461-AA "MR" in circle LW AT TRIANGLE 12703 RG W
SIDE TWO ST-A 681462-AA MR in circle LW AT TRIANGLE 12703-X RG W

Label is green/red Atlantic with SD 8216 in the top right corner and (ST-A-681462-MO) in the bottom-center (indicating MONARCH pressing); Broadway address.

Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded in its entirety). Cover looks great; light-scuffing (front and back). Inner sleeve is original (Atlantic ads), all three seams have some record-break-through. Spine is unbroken, clean, and easy-to-read. Minor shelf-wear along the top and bottom-edge, including the center. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. (This record is not a cut-out.)

ABOUT THE RECORD Led Zeppelin, the debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured integral contributions from each of the group's four musicians and established their fusion of blues and rock. It also attracted a large and devoted following to the band; Zeppelin's take on the emerging heavy metal sound endeared them to parts of the counter-culture on both sides of the Atlantic. Also featured was single Good Times Bad Times. The album was commercially very successful. In 2004, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In August 1968, the English rock band The Yardbirds had completely disbanded. Guitarist Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds' sole remaining member, was left with rights to the group’s name and contractual obligations for a series of concerts in Scandinavia. For his new band, Page recruited bassist John Paul Jones, vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham. During September 1968, the group toured Scandinavia as The New Yardbirds, performing some old Yardbirds material as well as new songs such as Communication Breakdown, I Can't Quit You Baby, You Shook Me, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, and How Many More Times. The month after they returned to England, October 1968, Page changed the band's name to Led Zeppelin, and the group entered Olympic Studios in London to record their debut album. It was initially released in the US on 12 January 1969 to capitalise on the band's first North American concert tour. Before that, Atlantic Records had distributed a few hundred advance white label copies to key radio stations and reviewers. A positive reaction to its contents, coupled with a good reaction to the band's opening concerts, resulted in the album generating 50,000 advance orders. Within two months of its release the album had reached Billboard Top 10. It stayed on the Billboard chart for 73 weeks and held a 79-week run on the British charts. By 1975 it had grossed $7,000,000. Led Zeppelin's front cover, which was chosen by Page, features a black-and-white image of the burning Hindenburg airship. The image refers to the origin of the band's name itself: when Page, Beck and The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle were discussing the idea of forming a group, Moon joked, "It would probably go over like a lead balloon", and Entwistle allegedly replied, "...a lead zeppelin!" The album's back cover features a photograph of the band taken by former-Yardbird Chris Dreja. The entire design of the album's sleeve was coordinated by George Hardie, with whom the band would continue to collaborate for future sleeves. Hardie recalled that he originally offered the band a design based on an old club sign in San Francisco—a multi-sequential image of a phallic zeppelin airship up in the clouds. Page declined but it was retained as the logo for the back cover of Led Zeppelin's first two albums and a number of early press advertisements. During the first few weeks of release in the UK, the sleeve featured the band's name and the Atlantic logo in turquoise. When this was switched to the now-common orange print later in the year, the turquoise-printed sleeve became a collector's item. The album cover received widespread attention when, at a February 1970 gig in Copenhagen, the band were billed as "The Nobs" as the result of a legal threat from aristocrat Eva von Zeppelin (a relative of the creator of the Zeppelin aircraft). Zeppelin, upon seeing the logo of the Hindenburg crashing in flames, threatened to have the show pulled off the air. In 2001, Greg Kot wrote in Rolling Stone that "The cover of Led Zeppelin... shows the Hindenburg airship, in all its phallic glory, going down in flames. The image did a pretty good job of encapsulating the music inside: sex, catastrophe and things blowing up."

TRACK LISTING Good Times Bad Times Babe I'm Gonna Leave You You Shook Me Dazed And Confused Your Time Is Gonna Come Black Mountain Side Communication Breakdown I Can't Quit You Baby How Many More Times

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