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Overview

This album was a stylistic turning point in the lifespan of Led Zeppelin. Guitar riffs became more layered within Jimmy Page's production techniques and departed from the blues influences of earlier records. In the album's opening opus, "The Song Remains the Same", and its intricate companion suite, "The Rain Song", Robert Plant's lyrics matured toward a less overt form of the mysticism and fantasy of previous efforts. Houses of the Holy also featured styles not heard on the first four Led Zeppelin albums. For example, "D'yer Mak'er" is a reggae-based tune; "No Quarter" features foreboding keyboard sounds and an acoustic piano solo from bassist John Paul Jones; "The Crunge" is a funk tribute to James Brown; and "The Rain Song" is embellished by Jones on mellotron. The album's closing song "The Ocean" is dedicated to "the sea" of fans who massed to Led Zeppelin concerts. In music, a riff is an ostinato figure: a repeated chord progression, pattern or melodic figure, often played by the rhythm section instruments, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a rock music or jazz composition. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... Blues music redirects here. ... The Song Remains the Same is a song by the rock/blues group Led Zeppelin. ... The Rain Song is a song from English rock band Led Zeppelins fifth album Houses of the Holy, released in 1973. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) is an English rock singer and songwriter, most famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, but also for his successful solo career. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dyer Maker (intended to be pronounced with a British non-rhotic accent as jah-may-kah) is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1973 album Houses of the Holy. ... Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ... No Quarter is the seventh song on English rock band Led Zeppelins fifth album Houses of the Holy, released in 1973. ... John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin on January 3, 1946 in Sidcup, Kent) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, and was known for being the bassist, the keyboardist and the mandolinist for rock band Led Zeppelin from its inception until the bands breakup following the death of John Bonham... The Crunge is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1973 album Houses of the Holy. ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... For other persons named James Brown, see James Brown (disambiguation). ... The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ... The Ocean is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1973 album Houses of the Holy. ... Throughout the 1970s, Led Zeppelin was one of the worlds most popular live music attractions, smashing several attendance records. ...

Houses of the Holy album cover, outer gatefold

The cover art for Houses of the Holy was inspired by the ending of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End. (The ending involves several naked children, only slightly and physically resembling the human race in basic forms). It is a collage of several photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland, by Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis. The photoshoot was a miserable affair over the course of every morning for a week. The desired sunrise never appeared due to constant rain and clouds and many of the models were never used. The results of the shoot were less than satisfactory, but some accidental tinting effects in post-production created an unexpectedly magical album cover. The inner sleeve photograph was taken at Dunluce Castle near to the Causeway. It was initially released with a paper collar wrapped around the cover, printed with the band and album name, that had to be broken or slid off to access the record. This hid the children's bottoms from general display, but still the album was either banned or unavailable in Spain and some parts of the Southern United States for several years. The cover was rated #6 on VH1's 50 Greatest Album Covers in 2003. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same... Childhoods End is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. ... For other uses, see Giants Causeway (disambiguation). ... Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Aubrey Powell was a designer partnered with Storm Thorgerson and Peter Christopherson at Hipgnosis design studio, producers of many famous rock album covers of the 70s and 80s. ... Hipgnosis was a British art design group that specialized in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Yes, Styx, and Black Sabbath. ... Dunluce Castle. ... Historic Southern United States. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division...

Houses of the Holy inner gatefold

Jimmy Page has stated that the album cover was actually the second version submitted by Hipgnosis. The first, by artist Storm Thorgerson, featured an electric green tennis court with a tennis racquet on it. Furious that Thorgerson was implying their music sounded like a "racket", the band fired him and hired Powell in his place.^[1] Thorgerson did, however, go on to produce the album artwork for Led Zeppelin's subsequent albums Presence and In Through the Out Door. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The iconic cover of Pink Floyds album The Dark Side of the Moon. ... Presence is the seventh studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on March 31, 1976. ... In Through the Out Door is the final studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded in November and December of 1978 at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, and released by Swan Song Records on 15 August, 1979. ...

This was Led Zeppelin's last studio release on Atlantic Records, before forming their own label, Swan Song Records, in 1974. It was also the only Led Zeppelin album that contained complete printed lyrics to each song. Swan Song Records was a record label launched by Led Zeppelin on May 10, 1974. ...

In 2003, the album was ranked number 149 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. This article is about the magazine. ... The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ...

In 2004, the industrial metal group Ministry released an album called Houses of the Molé, a parody of the title of this album. The 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure pays homage to the album during the final scene, when the protagonists are delivering a presentation about ancient Greece (having recently visited it); they describe what they saw as follows: "470 BC. A time when much of the world looked like the cover of the Led Zeppelin album Houses of the Holy". Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ... Ministry is an influential, Grammy-nominated American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. ... Houses of the Molé is the ninth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry with all songs starting with the letter W except for the first song and one hidden track. ... Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure (1989) is an American comedy/science fiction movie in which two slackers travel through time in order to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation. ...

"Houses of the Holy" is also the name of a song which was recorded during the sessions for this album, but wasn't actually released until 1975 on the album Physical Graffiti. Other songs recorded during the sessions for Houses of the Holy but not appearing on it include "Walter's Walk," "The Rover" and "Black Country Woman." Houses of the Holy is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. ... Physical Graffiti is the sixth album, a double album by the English hard rock band Led Zeppelin. ... Walters Walk is a song by Led Zeppelin. ... The Rover is a song by Led Zeppelin that opens with a drum beat from John Bonham, and throughout the song, Jimmy Page plays a distinctive riff, using wah and flange effects. ... Black Country Woman is the penultimate song on English rock band Led Zeppelins 1975 album Physical Graffiti. ...

Track listing

1. "The Song Remains the Same" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 5:32
2. "The Rain Song" (Page, Plant) – 7:39
3. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Page, Plant) – 4:50
4. "The Crunge" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page, Plant) – 3:17
5. "Dancing Days" (Page, Plant) – 3:43
6. "D'yer Mak'er" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 4:23
7. "No Quarter" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 7:00
8. "The Ocean" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 4:31

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Personnel

Led Zeppelin

• John Bonham – drums, backing vocals
• John Paul Jones – organ, mellotron, bass guitar, backing vocals, piano, synthesizers, harpsichord
• Jimmy Page – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, producer
• Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica

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Additional personnel

• Peter Grant – executive producer
• Eddie Kramer – engineer, mixing
• Keith Harwood – mixing
• Andy Johns – engineer, mixing (on "No Quarter")
• Hipgnosis – sleeve art direction
• Aubrey Powell – cover photography

Peter Grant in 1973 Peter Grant, (April 5, 1935 – November 21, 1995) was a manager for The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, and a record executive for Swan Song Records. ... Eddie Kramer is an audio engineer and producer who has worked with Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Peter Frampton, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Anthrax, Carly Simon and Robin Trower. ... Andy Johns, younger brother of famous Olympic Studios engineer Glyn Johns and uncle of Kings of Leon and Ryan Adams producer Ethan Johns (son of Glyn Johns) is a prolific engineer and producer. ... Hipgnosis was a British art design group that specialized in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Yes, Styx, and Black Sabbath. ... Aubrey Powell (born September 23, 1946, Sussex, England, education: The Kings School, Ely, Cambridgeshire, London School of Film Technique) was a designer partnered with Storm Thorgerson and Peter Christopherson at Hipgnosis design studio, producers of many famous rock album covers of the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Charts

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Singles

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External links

• Houses of the Holy at MusicBrainz
• Lyrics
• Cover art
• Cover art - Aubrey Powell

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References

v • d • e Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page · Robert Plant · John Paul Jones · John Bonham
Studio albums	Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin II · Led Zeppelin III · (Led Zeppelin IV) · Houses of the Holy · Physical Graffiti · Presence · In Through the Out Door
Live albums	The Song Remains the Same · BBC Sessions · How the West Was Won
Compilations	Coda · Box Set · Profiled · Remasters · Box Set 2 · Complete Studio Recordings · Early Days · Latter Days · Mothership
Films	The Song Remains the Same · Led Zeppelin DVD
Performances	Scandinavia 1968 · U.K. 1968 · North America 1968/1969 · U.K. & Scandinavia 1969 · North America Spring 1969 · U.K. Summer 1969 · North America Summer 1969 · Europe Autumn 1969 · North America Autumn 1969 · U.K. 1970 · Europe 1970 · North America Spring 1970 · Iceland, Bath & Germany 1970 · North America Summer 1970 · U.K. Spring 1971 · Europe 1971 · North America 1971 · Japan 1971 · U.K. Winter 1971 · Australasia 1972 · North America 1972 · Japan 1972 · U.K. 1972/1973 · Europe 1973 · North America 1973 · North America 1975 · Earl's Court 1975 · North America 1977 · Knebworth 1979 · Over Europe 1980
Related	Discography · Peter Grant · Richard Cole · Swan Song · The Yardbirds · XYZ · The Firm · Page and Plant · Strange Sensation · Bootlegs · The Starship