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Released | 24 February 1975 | |||
Recorded | July and December 1970, January–March 1971, May 1972, January–February 1974 at multiple locations[1] | |||
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Length | 82:45 | |||
Label | Swan Song | |||
Producer | Jimmy Page | |||
Led Zeppelin chronology | ||||
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Singles from Physical Graffiti | ||||
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Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by their newly founded imprint label Swan Song Records. The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album at Headley Grange, which stretched the total time of the record beyond the typical length of a single LP, so the band decided to make Physical Graffiti a double album by including unreleased tracks from earlier recording sessions: one outtake from Led Zeppelin III, three from Led Zeppelin IV, and three from Houses of the Holy, including the unused title track from the latter album.
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.[2] The album was later certified 16x platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2006, signifying shipments of over eight million copies.
Recording
The first attempt to record songs for Physical Graffiti took place in November 1973 at Headley Grange in Hampshire, England, where they had previously recorded their untitled fourth album. The recording equipment consisted of Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio. Guitarist Jimmy Page and drummer John Bonham recorded an instrumental which was later reworked as "Kashmir" during the first visit to Headley Grange. However, these sessions came to a halt quickly and the studio time was turned over to Bad Company, who used it to record songs for their eponymous debut album.[3] The press reported that bassist / keyboardist John Paul Jones was ill and unable to record.[4] However, he had became disillusioned with the group and fed up with touring, and told manager Peter Grant he wanted to quit the group and was considering becoming the choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral. Grant asked him to reconsider and take the rest of the year off to recuperate.[5]
The group reconvened at Headley Grange in January and February 1974, where they recorded eight tracks engineered by Ron Nevison.[6]. Lead singer Robert Plant later referred to these eight tracks as "the belters", adding "We did some real belters with live vocals, off-the-wall stuff that turned out really nice."[7] As with previous sessions at Headley Grange, the informal atmosphere allowed the group to improvise and develop material while recording. Sometimes the group would run through a track and then realised they had worked out something completely different.[8]
The eight tracks extended beyond the legnth of a conventional album, spanning three sides of an LP, so the group decided to create a double album, adding material they had recorded for previous albums but never issued. This included various jam sessions such as "Boogie With Stu" which Page thought would be unsuitable as a track on a single album. [9]
Additional overdubs were laid down and the final mixing of the album was performed in October 1974 by Keith Harwood at Olympic Studios, London. The title "Physical Graffiti" was coined by Page to illustrate the whole physical and written energy that had gone into producing the set. The album was scheduled for release in January 1975, which coincided with a major US tour. The sleeve design was delayed, and release was postponed until mid-February.[10]
Songs
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The album spanned several years of recording and covered a range of musical styles, including hard rock ("Custard Pie", "The Rover", "The Wanton Song", "Sick Again", "Houses of the Holy"), eastern-influenced orchestral rock ("Kashmir"), progressive rock ("In the Light"), driving funk ("Trampled Under Foot"), acoustic rock and roll ("Boogie with Stu", "Black Country Woman"), love ballad ("Ten Years Gone"), blues rock ("In My Time of Dying"), soft rock ("Down by the Seaside"), country rock romp ("Night Flight"), and acoustic guitar instrumental ("Bron-Yr-Aur").[11][12][13]
Plant later felt that Physical Graffiti represented the band at its creative peak, and has since said it his favourite Led Zeppelin album.[14] 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.[15]
Several tracks off the album became live staples at Led Zeppelin concerts. In particular, "In My Time of Dying", "Trampled Under Foot", "Kashmir", "Ten Years Gone", "Black Country Woman", and "Sick Again" became regular components of the band's live concert set lists following the release of the album.[16]
Side one
"Custard Pie" was recorded at Headley Grange in early 1974. The first take was a faster tempo to the finished version, with various improvised vocals. After a basic run through, the group then discussed possibilities for rearranging it.[8] Page played the guitar solo through an ARP synthesiser, while Jones overdubbed a Hohner Clavinet par and Plant played harmonica.[10]
"The Rover" was written in 1970 at Bron-Y-Aur, a cottage near Machynlleth. It was first recorded at Headley Grange in May 1970 as an acoustic number for Led Zeppelin III. It was reworked as an electric number in 1972 for Houses of the Holy, which formed the basis for the backing track.[17] Page subsequently added guitar overdubs in 1974 with Keith Harwood engineering.[10][a]
"In My Time Of Dying" is based on a traditional song that Bob Dylan recorded on his debut album in 1962. [10] The track was recorded live, with Page later adding further slide guitar overdubs. The arrangement and structure was led by Bonham, who worked out where the various stop / start sections in the track should be, and how the group knew where to come back in. The very end of the song features an off-mic cough from Bonham, causing the rest of the group to break down at that point. Bonham subsequently shouted "That's got to be the one, hasn't it?", feeling it was the best take.[18]
Side two
"Houses of the Holy" was recorded as the title track for the album of the same name in June 1972 at Electric Lady Studios with Eddie Kramer engineering. Unlike some of the other older material on Physical Graffiti, it required no further overdubbing or remixing.[10]
"Trampled Underfoot" developed from a jam session driven by Jones at the Clavinet. The song went through several arrangement changed before arriving at the version heard on the album, with the group rehearsing various different ideas and arguing about the overall style. Bonham decided the track was too "souly" and rearranged it into a funk style, suggesting that Page should play a guitar riff during the track.[19] The lyrics are a series of double entendres around driving and cars. The song quickly became a popular live piece, and was played at every live show from 1975 onwards, and was later revived by Plant for his solo tours.[10]
"Kashmir" was an idea from Page and Bonham, and was first attempted as an instrumental demo in late 1973. Plant wrote the lyrics while on holiday in Morocco. Jones played Mellotron on the track, and arranged strings and brass parts that were played by outside session musicians. The track was one of the most critically acclaimed on the album, and quickly became a popular live piece, being played at every gig from 1975 onwards.[16] The track was reworked in 1998 by Sean "Puffy" Combs for his single "Come With Me" which featured Page on guitar.[20]
Side three
"In The Light" was recorded at Headley Grange in early 1974. It was initially called "In The Morning" and went through several rehearsals and takes to work out a basic structure. A drone / chant introduction was later added for the piece.[21]
"Bron-Y-Aur" was a solo acoustic piece by Page, named after the cottage where he had composed and arranged much of Led Zeppelin III with Plant. It was recorded at Island Studios in mid-1970. The track was later used as background music in the group's film The Song Remains the Same.[22]
"Down By The Seaside" was originally written as an acoustic track at Bron-Y-Aur in 1970, and was influenced by Neil Young. It was reworked as an electric track during sessions for the fourth album the following year. Page and Bonham led the arranging, changing tempo from the slow to fast section and then back again.[22]
"Ten Years Gone" was mostly composed by Plant about an old love affair, which was combined with an instrumental piece from Page, featuring overdubbed electric and acoustic guitar parts. When the track was performed live, Jones played a triple-neck guitar featuring mandolin, six and twelve-string guitar necks, along with bass pedals, in order to try and reproduce the various guitar overdubs on the studio recording.[22]
Side four
"Night Flight" was recorded at Headley Grange in 1971 for the fourth album. Jones plays Hammond organ on the track, and Page plays guitar through a Leslie speaker.[22]
"The Wanton Song" was built around a Page guitar riff. Unlike some of the tracks recorded at the 1974 Headley Grange sessions, it was straightforward to arrange, with the group building song around the guitar riffs.[22]
"Boogie With Stu" was a jam session with Rolling Stones pianist Ian Stewart based around the Ritchie Valens song "Ooh My Head". It was recorded in 1971 at Headley Grange during the same session that produced "Rock And Roll" for the fourth album.[22]
"Black County Woman" was recorded in the garden at Stargroves in 1972 for Houses of the Holy. The track was nearly abandoned when an aeroplane cruised overhead, but it was left on the final recording for effect.[22]
"Sick Again" was written by Page and Plant about the 1973 tour and their experience with meeting groupies. The track was driven by Bonham's drumming and Page's guitar riffs.[22] The arrangement had been worked out before recording, and was straightforward to put down on tape.[8]
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 for "Hots on For Nowhere" on the following album, Presence.[23] A number of other outtakes from earlier album sessions that weren't put on Physical Graffiti were later included on the 1982 album Coda.[24]
Packaging
The album's intricate die-cut sleeve design depicts a photograph of a New York City tenement block, through whose windows various cultural icons could be interchangeably viewed.[25] 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 said:
"We walked around the city for a few weeks looking for the right building. I had come up [with] a concept for the band based on the tenement, people living there and moving in and out. The original album featured the building with the windows cut out on the cover and various sleeves that could be placed under the cover, filling the windows with the album title, track information or liner notes."[26]
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The two five-storey buildings photographed for the album cover are located at 96 and 98 St. Mark's Place in New York City.[27][28] 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.[26] The buildings to the left and right were also changed to match the style of the double front. Tiles were added on the roof section along with more faces. Part of the top right railing balcony was left out for a whole window frame to be visible. The front cover is a daytime shot, while the back cover was taken at night.
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".[11] 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.[25] 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. Fallen, and Roy Harper. "Tinting Extraordinaire:" Maurice Tate, and window illustration by Dave Heffernan.[29] Doud died in the early 1990s, and this album design was one of his crowning achievements in a lifetime of design. In 1976 the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package.[11]
There was a used clothing store in the basement of 96 St. Mark's Place called Physical Graffiti. There is currently a shop called Physical Graffitea. The building has been profiled on the television show, Rock Junket.[30]
Release and critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic (2015 reissue) | 97/100[31] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Christgau's Record Guide | B+[33] |
The Daily Telegraph | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MusicHound Rock | 4.5/5[36] |
Pitchfork | 10/10[37] |
Q | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Uncut | 8/10[40] |
The Village Voice | B[41] |
The album was released on 24 February 1975, at a time when Led Zeppelin were undertaking their tenth concert tour of North America. Delays in the production of the album's sleeve design prevented its release prior to the commencement of the tour.[42]
Physical Graffiti was the band's first release on their own Swan Song Records label, which had been launched in May 1974. Until this point, all of Led Zeppelin's albums had been released on Atlantic Records, who would distribute Swan Song. The album was a commercial and critical success, having built up a huge advance order, and when eventually released it reached No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. It has since proven to be one of the most popular releases by the group, shipping 8 million copies in the United States alone (which has made it 16 times platinum as it is a double album).[2] Physical Graffiti was the first album to go platinum on advance orders alone.[43] Shortly after its release, all previous Led Zeppelin albums simultaneously re-entered the top-200 album chart.[44]
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."[45] Similarly, Jim Miller stated in Rolling Stone that the double album was "the band's Tommy, Beggar's Banquet and Sgt. Pepper rolled into one: Physical Graffiti is Led Zeppelin's bid for artistic respectability."[46] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau 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".[33] Reviewing the album for BBC Music in 2007, Chris Jones described it as "a towering monument to the glory of Zeppelin in their high-flying heyday".[47]
In 1998 Q readers voted Physical Graffiti the 28th-greatest album of all time; in 2000 Q placed it at number 32 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever; and in 2001 the same magazine named it as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time. In 2003, the TV network VH1 named it the 71st-greatest album ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 70 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The album is also listed in Robert Dimery and Stevie Chick's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005).
Accolades
Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
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Grammy Award | US | "Grammy Award for Best Recording Package"[48] | 1976 | Nominee |
Rolling Stone | US | "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"[49] | 2003 | 70 |
Pitchfork | US | "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s"[50] | 2004 | 95 |
AllMusic | US | "Top Digital Albums"[51] | 2012 | 20 |
AllMusic | US | "Top Pop Catalog"[52] | 2012 | 3 |
AllMusic | US | "Billboard 200"[53] | 2012 | 43 |
Classic Rock | UK | "100 Greatest Rock Album Ever"[54] | 2001 | 5 |
Mojo | UK | "The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made"[55] | 1996 | 47 |
Q | UK | "100 Greatest Albums Ever"[56] | 2003 | 41 |
Record Collector | UK | "Classic Albums from 21 Genres for the 21st century"[57] | 2005 | * |
Robert Dimery | US | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die[58] | 2005 | * |
Q | UK | "100 Best Albums Ever"[59] | 2006 | 57 |
Classic Rock | UK | "100 Greatest British Rock Album Ever"[60] | 2006 | 7 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | US | "The Definitive 200: Top 200 Albums of All-Time"[61] | 2007 | 93 |
Guitar World | US | "Reader's Poll: 100 Greatest Guitar Albums"[62] | 2006 | 9 |
(*) designates unordered lists.
2015 reissue
A remastered version of Physical Graffiti was reissued on 23 February 2015, almost exactly forty years after the original album was released. The reissue comes in six formats: a standard two-CD edition, a deluxe three-CD edition, a standard two-LP version, a deluxe three-LP version, a super deluxe three-CD plus three-LP version with a hardback book, and as high resolution 96k/24-bit digital downloads. The deluxe and super deluxe editions feature bonus material containing alternative takes and previously unreleased songs, "Brandy & Coke", "Everybody Makes It Through" and "Driving Through Kashmir". The reissue was released with an inverted color version of the original album's artwork as its bonus disc's cover.[63]
Track listing
Standard edition
All tracks are written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, except where noted
No. | Title | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Custard Pie" | January–February 1974 | 4:15 |
2. | "The Rover" | May 1972 (Houses of the Holy outtake) | 5:39 |
3. | "In My Time of Dying" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page, and Plant) | January–February 1974 | 11:08 |
No. | Title | Date recorded | Length |
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4. | "Houses of the Holy" | May 1972 (Houses of the Holy outtake) | 4:04 |
5. | "Trampled Under Foot" (Jones, Page, and Plant) | January–February 1974 | 5:36 |
6. | "Kashmir" (Bonham, Page, and Plant) | January–February 1974 | 8:37 |
No. | Title | Date recorded | Length |
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7. | "In the Light" (Jones, Page, and Plant) | January–February 1974 | 8:47 |
8. | "Bron-Yr-Aur" (Page) | July 1970 (Led Zeppelin III outtake) | 2:06 |
9. | "Down by the Seaside" | February 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV outtake) | 5:15 |
10. | "Ten Years Gone" | January–February 1974 | 6:34 |
No. | Title | Date recorded | Length |
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11. | "Night Flight" (Jones, Page, and Plant) | December 1970 – January 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV outtake) | 3:38 |
12. | "The Wanton Song" | January–February 1974 | 4:08 |
13. | "Boogie with Stu" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant, Ian Stewart) | December 1970 – January 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV outtake) | 3:52 |
14. | "Black Country Woman" | May 1972 (Houses of the Holy outtake) | 4:24 |
15. | "Sick Again" | January–February 1974 | 4:42 |
- Some cassette and 8-track versions of the album place "Bron-Yr-Aur" immediately after "Kashmir"
- The running times listed for "Kashmir" and "Ten Years Gone" on original LP pressings, and some compact disc versions, of the album were significantly in error; "Kashmir" was listed at 9:41, "Ten Years Gone" at 6:55.
- "Boogie with Stu" is credited to "Mrs. Valens," a reference to the mother of Ritchie Valens. The credit came about after the band had heard Valens's mother never received any royalties from any of her son's hits.[64]
Deluxe edition bonus disc
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Brandy & Coke" ("Trampled Under Foot") (Initial/Rough Mix) |
| 5:38 |
2. | "Sick Again" (Early Version) |
| 2:20 |
3. | "In My Time of Dying" (Initial/Rough Mix) |
| 10:45 |
4. | "Houses of the Holy" (Rough Mix with Overdubs) |
| 3:51 |
5. | "Everybody Makes It Through" ("In the Light") (Early Version/In Transit) |
| 6:29 |
6. | "Boogie with Stu" (Sunset Sound Mix) |
| 3:36 |
7. | "Driving Through Kashmir" ("Kashmir") (Rough Orchestra Mix) |
| 8:33 |
Total length: | 41:29 |
Personnel
- John Bonham – drums, percussion
- John Paul Jones – bass guitar, organ, acoustic and electric piano, mellotron, guitar, mandolin, VCS3 synthesiser, Hohner clavinet, Hammond organ, string arrangement
- Jimmy Page – electric, acoustic, lap steel and slide guitar, sitar, [citation needed] mandolin, production
- Robert Plant – lead vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar on "Boogie with Stu"
- Ian Stewart – piano on "Boogie with Stu"
- Iman Karniparinpil – Jew's harp on "Kashmir" [citation needed]
- George Chkiantz – engineering
- Peter Corriston – artwork, design, cover design
- Barry Diament – mastering (original 1987 CD release)
- Mike Doud – artwork, design, cover design
- Jack Royerton - spoons
- Elliot Erwitt – photography
- B. P. Fallon – photography
- Peter Grant – producer, executive producer
- Roy Harper – photography
- Keith Harwood – engineering, mixing
- Dave Heffernan – illustrations
- Andy Johns – engineering
- Eddie Kramer – engineering, mixing
- George Marino – remastered CD release
- Ron Nevison – engineering
Charts
Chart (1975) | Peak position |
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Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart | 2 |
Austrian Albums Chart[65] | 2 |
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[66] | 1 |
Danish Albums Chart[67] | 10 |
French Albums Chart[68] | 2 |
Italian Albums Chart[69] | 17 |
Japanese Albums Chart[70] | 13 |
New Zealand Top 50 Albums Chart[71] | 3 |
Norwegian Albums Chart[72] | 4 |
Spanish Albums Chart[73] | 2 |
UK Albums Chart[74] | 1 |
US Billboard 200 Albums Chart[75] | 1 |
Chart (2015) | Peak position |
Australian Albums Chart[76] | 13 |
Austrian Albums Chart[77] | 7 |
Danish Albums Chart[78] | 31 |
French Albums Chart[79] | 23 |
German Albums Chart[80] | 4 |
New Zealand Albums Chart[81] | 6 |
Norwegian Albums Chart[82] | 12 |
Swiss Albums Chart[83] | 8 |
US Billboard 200 Albums Chart[84] | 11 |
- Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1975 | "Trampled Under Foot" | Billboard Hot 100 | 38[citation needed] |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Argentina (CAPIF)[85] | Gold | 30,000^ |
France (SNEP)[87] | Gold | 288,900[86] |
Germany (BVMI)[88] | Gold | 250,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[89] | 2× Platinum | 600,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[2] | 16× Platinum | 8,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
See also
References
Notes
Citations
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