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Scarce

Original Vintage
2 Album Set
VINYL



LED ZEPPELIN
Physical Graffiti

Swan Song Inc
SS2-200 1198
1975



Play Graded

Condition: 

 Albums - Excellent to Near Mint
Sleeves - Excellent to Near Mint
(please see photos)


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Led Zeppelin was an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are regularly cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, although their style drew from a variety of influences, including blues and folk music. The band have been credited with majorly impacting the nature of the music industry, particularly in the development of album-orientated rock (AOR) and stadium rock. Many critics consider Led Zeppelin one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history.
After changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Although the group were initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with eight studio albums released over ten years, from Led Zeppelin (1969) to In Through the Out Door (1979). Their untitled fourth studio album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV (1971), became one of the best-selling albums in history. It featured the song "Stairway to Heaven", which has come to be among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and helped to secure the group's popularity.
Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin's music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones's keyboard-based compositions later became central to the group's catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, their output and touring schedule were limited during the late 1970s, and the group disbanded following Bonham's death from alcohol-related asphyxia in 1980. 
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum's biography of the band states that they were "as influential" during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s.


Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by the group's new record label, Swan Song Records.
The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album in early 1974 at Headley Grange, a country house in Hampshire, which gave them ample time to improvise arrangements and experiment with recording. The total playing time covered just under 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 Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy. The album covered a range of styles including hard rock, progressive rock, rock 'n' roll and folk. The album was then mixed over summer 1974 and planned for an end-of year release. Its release was delayed because Peter Corriston-designed die-cut album cover proved difficult to manufacture.
Physical Graffiti was commercially and critically successful upon its release and debuted at number one on album charts in the UK and number three in the US. It was promoted by a successful US tour and a five-night residency at Earl's Court, London, and has since been viewed as one of the group's strongest albums and the artistic peak of their career. 



The album was originally released with a die-cut sleeve design depicting a New York City tenement block, through whose windows various cultural icons could be interchangeably viewed. The album designer, Peter Corriston, 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. Incidentally, the same front doorway and stoop at 96 E. 8th Street/St. Marks Place is also the location used by The Rolling Stones for their music video promoting their single "Waiting On A Friend" from their 1981 album Tattoo You.
The two five-storey buildings photographed for the album cover are located at 96 and 98 St. Mark's Place in New York City. The original photograph underwent a number of tweaks to arrive at the final image. The fourth floor of the building had to be cropped out to fit the square album cover format.
Eschewing the usual gatefold 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 W. C. Fields and Buzz Aldrin alternated with the snapshots of Led Zeppelin. Photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, Marcel Duchamp and Pope Leo XIII 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. Fallon, and Roy Harper. "Tinting Extraordinaire:" Maurice Tate, and window illustration by Dave Heffernan. In 1976 the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package.



Track Listing

A1Custard Pie  Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant   4:20 A2The Rover  Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant  5:54 A3In My Time Of Dying  Written-By – Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant  11:08
B1Houses Of The Holy  Tracking By – George Chkiantz Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant  4:01 B2Trampled Under Foot    Written-By – Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones,
Robert Plant  5:38 B3Kashmir   Written-By – Jimmy Page, John Bonham,
Robert Plant  9:41
C1In The Light Written-By – Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones,
Robert Plant  8:46 C2Bron-Yr-Aur  Written-By – Jimmy Page  2:07 C3Down By The Seaside  Written-By – Jimmy Page,
Robert Plant  5:15 C4Ten Years Gone  Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant  6:55
D1Night Flight  Written-By – Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones,
Robert Plant  3:37 D2The Wanton Song  Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant  4:10 D3Boogie With Stu   Written-By – Ian Stewart, Jimmy Page, John Bonham,
John Paul Jones, Mrs. Valens, Robert Plant  3:45 D4Black Country Woman  Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant  4:30 D5Sick Again  Written-By – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant  4:40



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