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All tracks written by  and , except where noted.

Side oneNo.TitleDate and locationLength1."Custard Pie"January–February 1974, , 4:132.""May 1972, Stargroves ( outtake)5:363."" (, , Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange11:04Side twoNo.TitleDate recordedLength4.""May 1972, , London (Houses of the Holy outtake)4:015."" (Jones, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange5:356."" (Bonham, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange8:37Side threeNo.TitleDate recordedLength7."" (Jones, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange8:448."Bron-Yr-Aur" (Page)July 1970, Island Studios, London ( outtake)2:069."Down by the Seaside"February 1971, Island Studios, London ( outtake)5:1410.""January–February 1974, Headley Grange6:31Side fourNo.TitleDate recordedLength11."Night Flight" (Jones, Page, and Plant)January 1971, Headley Grange (Led Zeppelin IV outtake)3:3612.""January–February 1974, Headley Grange4:0613."Boogie with Stu" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant, , Mrs Valens)January 1971, Headley Grange (Led Zeppelin IV outtake)3:5114."Black Country Woman"May 1972, Stargroves (Houses of the Holy outtake)4:2415.""January–February 1974, Headley Grange4:43
length:41:29
Physical Graffiti by  Released24 February 1975RecordedJuly and December 1970, January–March 1971, May 1972, January–February 1974 at multiple locations Length82:59 chronology
(1973)Physical Graffiti
(1975)
(1976) from Physical Graffiti "/Black Country Woman"
Released: 2 April 1975

Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band . It was released as a  on 24 February 1975 by the group's new record label, .

The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album in early 1974 at , a country house in , which gave them ample time to improvise arrangements and experiment with recording. The total playing time covered three sides of an LP, so they decided to expand it into a double by including previously unreleased tracks from the sessions for the earlier albums ,  and . The album covered a range of styles including , ,  and . The album was then mixed over summer 1974 and planned for an end-of year release. It was delayed because of the sleeve, which was designed by  and featured a theme around a  block in , .

Physical Graffiti was commercially and critically successful upon its release and debuted at number one on album charts in both the US and the UK. It was promoted by a successful US tour and a five-night residency at , London, and has since been viewed as one of the group's strongest albums and the artistic peak of their career. ********************

Unreleased material

As Physical Graffiti collected various out-takes from earlier albums, little was left over from the recording sessions that was not eventually released. An early arrangement of "Custard Pie", different from the final version, was reworked as "Hots on For Nowhere" on the following album, . A number of other outtakes from earlier album sessions that had not been put on Physical Graffiti were later included on the 1982 album .

Artwork and packaging 96 and 98 East 

The album was originally released with a die-cut sleeve design depicting a New York City  block, through whose windows various cultural icons could be interchangeably viewed. The album designer, , was looking for a building that was symmetrical with interesting details, that was not obstructed by other objects and would fit the square album cover. He subsequently came up with the rest of the cover based on people moving in and out of the tenement, with various sleeves that could be placed under the main cover and filling the windows with various pieces of information.

The two five-storey buildings photographed for the album cover are located at 96 and 98  in New York City. The original photograph underwent a number of tweaks to arrive at the final image. The fifth floor of the building had to be cropped out to fit the square album cover format.

Eschewing the usual  design in favour of a special die-cut cover, the original album jacket included four covers made up of two inners (for each disc), a middle insert cover and an outer cover. The middle insert cover is white and details all the album track listings and recording information. The outer cover has die-cut windows on the building, so when the middle cover is wrapped around the inner covers and slid into the outer cover, the title of the album is shown on the front cover, spelling out the name "Physical Graffiti". Images in the windows touched upon a set of American icons and a range of Hollywood ephemera. Pictures of  and  alternated with the snapshots of Led Zeppelin.Photographs of ,  and  are also featured. Per the liner notes, package concept and design was by AGI/Mike Doud (London) and Peter Corriston (New York). Photography was by Elliot Erwitt, B. P. Fallen, and . "Tinting Extraordinaire:" Maurice Tate, and window illustration by Dave Heffernan. In 1976 the album was nominated for a  in the category of .

Release and critical reception Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingB+4.5/5B

Physical Graffiti was Led Zeppelin's first release on their own  label, which had been launched in May 1974. Until this point, all of Led Zeppelin's albums had been released on , who would distribute Swan Song. The album was first announced to the press on 6 November with a planned release date of 29 November and an  (the band's tenth) starting in January. Delays in the production of the album's sleeve design prevented its release prior to the commencement of the tour. It was finally released on 24 February 1975.

The group debuted several songs from Physical Graffiti live for the first time at a warm-up gig in ,  on 11 January, a week before the US tour, which lasted until 27 March. The tour was also successful, and was followed up by a  at , London. Tickets for the shows sold out within four hours, described by promoter Mel Bush as "unprecedented demand in the history of rock music", so a further two dates were added. The shows attracted rave reviews, and critics noted the band enjoyed playing the new material on Physical Graffiti more than the older songs.The album was a commercial and critical success, having built up a huge advance order following the delayed release date, and when eventually issued it reached No. 1 in the UK charts. In the US, it debuted at No. 3 on 's Pop Albums chart, rising to No. 1 the following week and staying there for six weeks.  Physical Graffiti has since proven to be one of the most popular releases by the group, shipping 8 million copies in the United States. It was the first album to go platinum on advance orders alone. Shortly after its release, all previous Led Zeppelin albums simultaneously re-entered the top-200 album chart.

's  reviewed the album three months before it was released. He speculated it could be the group's best work to date, saying "the album's tonal density is absolutely the toughest, most downright brutal I've heard all year". In March 1975, Billboard magazine's reviewer wrote: "[Physical Graffiti] is a tour de force through a number of musical styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds." Similarly, Jim Miller stated in  that the double album was "the band's ,  and  rolled into one: Physical Graffiti is Led Zeppelin's bid for artistic respectability".  critic  was less impressed, writing that except for side two, the material often wanders into "wide tracks, misconceived opi, and so forth", and "after a while Robert Plant begins to grate".

Plant later felt that Physical Graffiti represented the band at its creative peak, and has since said that it is his favourite Led Zeppelin album. Page has also said the album was a "high-water mark" for the group, and the creative energy from jamming and gradually working out song structures together led to some strong material. Reviewing the album for  in 2007, Chris Jones described it as "a towering monument to the glory of Zeppelin in their high-flying heyday".