Led Zeppelin
Studio album by Led Zeppelin
Released	January 12, 1969
Recorded	October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, folk rock
Length	44:51
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Jimmy Page
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Mark Prindle (9/10) link Q [October 2000] Rolling Stone (Very favourable) link
Led Zeppelin chronology
Led Zeppelin (1969) Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut album of English hard rock band, Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on January 12, 1969. The album featured integral contributions from each of the group's four musicians and established Led Zeppelin's unique fusion of blues and rock. Led Zeppelin also created a large and devoted following for the band, with their unique heavy metal and psychedelic rock sound endearing them to a section of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic. Cover of the Led Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Olympic Studios is a commercial recording studio located at 117 Church Road, in the south-western suburb of Barnes in London, England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hard Rock redirects here. ... Heavy metal redirects here. ... Blues Rock or Blues-rock is a fusion genre of music which combines elements of the blues with rock and roll. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... This article is about the magazine. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Led Zeppelin II is the second album released by English rock band Led Zeppelin in 1969. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Hard Rock redirects here. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Olympic Studios is a commercial recording studio located at 117 Church Road, in the south-western suburb of Barnes in London, England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Heavy metal redirects here. ... Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. ... The Atlantic Ocean, not including Arctic and Antarctic regions. ...

Background

In August 1968, the English rock group 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.^[1] 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".^[2] The month after they returned to England, October 1968, Page changed the band's name to "Led Zeppelin", and the group entered the studio to record their debut album.^[3] For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Not to be confused with Yard Birds. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... 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... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England), is an English rock singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career. ... John Henry Bonzo Bonham (May 31, 1948 – September 25, 1980) was an English drummer and member of the English rock band Led Zeppelin. ... Led Zeppelins 1968 tour of Scandinavia was a concert tour of Denmark and Sweden by the English rock band. ... Communication Breakdown is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... I Cant Quit You Baby is a song written by bluesman Willie Dixon. ... You Shook Me is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir. ... Babe Im Gonna Leave You is a folk song written and recorded by Anne Bredon in the 1950s. ... How Many More Times is the last song by English rock band Led Zeppelin on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ...

Recording and production

Recording sessions

In an interview for the Led Zeppelin Profiled radio promo CD (1990), Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said that the album took only about 36 hours of studio time (over a span of a few weeks) to create (including mixing), adding that he knows this because of the amount charged on the studio bill. One of the primary reasons for the short recording time was that the material selected for the album had been well rehearsed and pre-arranged by the band on Led Zeppelin's tour of Scandinavia in September 1968. As Page explained: Profiled is an interview album by Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on September 21, 1990. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... Led Zeppelins 1968 tour of Scandinavia was a concert tour of Denmark and Sweden by the English rock band. ...

In addition, since the band had not yet signed their deal with Atlantic Records, Page and Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant paid for the sessions entirely themselves, thus there was no record company money to waste on excessive studio time.^[5] Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... 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. ...

Production

Led Zeppelin was produced by Jimmy Page and engineered by Glyn Johns, who had previously worked with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. The album was recorded on an analog 4-track machine, which helped to give the record its warm sound. Page reportedly used natural room ambience to enhance the reverb and recording texture on the record, demonstrating the innovations in sound recording he had learned during his session days. Up until the late 1960s, most music producers placed microphones directly in front of the amplifiers and drums. For Led Zeppelin Page developed the idea of placing an additional microphone some distance from the amplifier (as far as twenty feet) and then recording the balance between the two. By adopting this "distance equals depth" technique, Page became one of the first producers to record a band's "ambient sound" -- the distance of a note's time-lag from one end of the room to the other.^[6][7] Glyn Johns (born February 15, 1942 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a recording engineer and record producer. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... The Who are a British rock band that first formed in 1964, and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world. ... Microphones redirects here. ... For the British rock band of the same name, see Amplifier (band). ...

Another notable feature of the album was the "leakage" on the recordings of Robert Plant's vocals. In an interview Page gave to Guitar World magazine in 1998, Page stated that "Robert's voice was extremely powerful and, as a result, would get on some of the other tracks. But oddly, the leakage sounds intentional."^[6] Two issues of Guitar World featuring Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix on the covers, and the accompanying CDs (May 2005, October 2005) Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists. ...

On "You Shook Me" Page used his "backward echo" technique, which involved hearing the echo before the main sound instead of after it, achieved by turning the tape over and employing the echo on a spare track, then turning the tape back over again to get the echo preceding the signal. Page had originally developed the method when recording the single "Ten Little Indians" with The Yardbirds in 1967.^[6] Backward echo is an analog recording technique made famous by Jimmy Page as producer of Led Zeppelin. ... Not to be confused with Yard Birds. ...

Album artwork

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:^[9] as the story goes, when Page, Jeff 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". To which 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. This article is about the magazine. ... The Hindenburg redirects here. ... Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London) is an English rock guitarist. ... The Who are a British rock band that first formed in 1964, and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world. ... Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. ... John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for rock band The Who. ... Former rhythm guitarist and later bassist for the mid-sixties British band The Yardbirds. ...

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.^[9] This article is about the symbol of the erect penis. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... Record collecting is a pastime for millions of music fans the world over. ...

Led Zeppelin's album cover received widespread attention when, at a 28 February 1970 gig in Copenhagen, the band were billed as "The Nobs" as the result of a threat of legal action from aristocrat Eva von Zeppelin (a relative of the creator of the Zeppelin aircraft), who, upon seeing the logo of the Hindenburg crashing in flames, threatened to have the show pulled off the air.^[10] is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Copenhagen (disambiguation). ... The Nobs was a temporary name used by the rock band Led Zeppelin during a February 1970 tour in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Zeppelins are a type of rigid airship pioneered by German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based in part on an earlier design by aviation pioneer David Schwarz. ... LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. ...

Music

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The conceptual originality of the album was displayed on tracks such as "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown", which had a unique and distinctively heavy sound new to the ears of young music-buyers in the late-1960s. "Communication Breakdown" would become monumental in its influence: In the documentary "Ramones - The True Story", Page's sped up, downstroke guitar riff is cited as guitarist Johnny Ramone's inspiration for - and basis of - his punk-defining, strictly downstroke guitar strumming. Led Zeppelin also featured delicate steel-string acoustic guitar by Page on "Black Mountain Side", and a combination of acoustic and electric approaches on their adaptation of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You". Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Good Times, Bad Times is the first song by British Rock band Led Zeppelin, on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... Communication Breakdown is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the guitarist for the seminal punk rock group The Ramones. ... Playing a steel-string guitar without a pick (fingerpicking). ... Black Mountain Side is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... Babe Im Gonna Leave You is a folk song written and recorded by Anne Bredon in the 1950s. ...

"Dazed and Confused" is arguably the album's centerpiece: a foreboding arrangement featuring a descending bass line from Jones, heavy drumming from Bonham and some powerful guitar riffs and soloing from Page. It also showcased Page playing guitar with a cello bow (an idea suggested by David McCallum Sr., whom Page had met while doing studio session work).^[11] The bowed guitar in the middle section of the song brought psychedelic rock to experimental new heights, especially in extended stage versions, building on Page's earlier renderings of the song during the latter days of The Yardbirds. "Dazed and Confused" would become Led Zeppelin's signature performance piece for years to come. Dazed and Confused is a song by folk singer Jake Holmes from his debut solo album The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes, released in June, 1967. ... David McCallum Sr. ... ==Individual Studio== A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... Not to be confused with Yard Birds. ...

The bowed guitar technique is also used on "How Many More Times", a song which features a "Bolero" riff and a broken-down noise section in which Robert Plant howls Albert King's "The Hunter" (a blues song popularised by singer Koko Taylor). How Many More Times is the last song by English rock band Led Zeppelin on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin. ... Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) was an influential American blues guitarist and singer. ...

Many of Led Zeppelin's earliest songs were based on blues standards, and the album also included three songs composed by others: "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby", both by blues artist Willie Dixon; and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You". Regarding the last of these, at the time guitarist Jimmy Page mistakenly believed he was adapting a traditional folk song he had heard on a Joan Baez record, but this was corrected on subsequent rereleases after it was revealed that the song was composed by Anne Bredon in the 1950s. Dixon, on the other hand, received proper credit as the composer of his two songs on this album (although "You Shook Me" would later be additionally credited to J. B. Lenoir) but would go on to sue Led Zeppelin over partial use of other material of his on the band's second album. On "You Shook Me", Plant vocally mimics Page's guitar effects - a metallicised version of the "call and response" blues technique. You Shook Me is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir. ... I Cant Quit You Baby is a song written by bluesman Willie Dixon. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Willie Dixons style of blues was one of the inspirations for a new generation of music, rock and roll. ... Babe Im Gonna Leave You is a folk song written and recorded by Anne Bredon in the 1950s. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... J. B. Lenoir (March 5, 1929 – April 29, 1967) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter born in Monticello, Mississippi. ... Led Zeppelin II is the second album released by English rock band Led Zeppelin in 1969. ... In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. ...

Jeff Beck had previously recorded "You Shook Me" for his album, Truth, and accused Page of stealing his idea. With John Paul Jones and drummer Keith Moon of The Who, Page had played on (and says he arranged) "Beck's Bolero", an instrumental on Truth that would be grooved into the mix of the Led Zeppelin jam "How Many More Times". These cross-pollinizations led to a rift between Beck and Page, who had played in the Yardbirds together and been friends since childhood.^[12] In fact, it was Page who first suggested Beck for the Yardbirds' guitarist position when he was contacted by the band after Eric Clapton's departure. Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London) is an English rock guitarist. ... 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... Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. ... The Who are a British rock band that first formed in 1964, and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world. ... Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. ...

Success and critical acclaim

The album initially received poor reviews. In a stinging assessment, Rolling Stone magazine asserted that the band offered "little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago". It called Plant "as foppish as Rod Stewart, but nowhere near so exciting".^[13] As was noted by rock journalist Cameron Crowe years later: This article is about the magazine. ... The electric guitarist Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is a British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s. ... Rod Stewart CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England, with Scottish parentage. ... Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. ...

Nevertheless, the album was a massive fiscal success. The album was initially released in America on 17 January 1969 to capitalise on the band's first U.S. 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.^[15] It stayed on the Billboard chart for 73 weeks and held a 79-week run on the British chart. By 1975 it had grossed $7,000,000.^[16] Led Zeppelins 1968/1969 tour of North America was the first concert tour of North America by the English rock band. ...

The success and influence of the album is today widely acknowledged, even amongst those critics who were initially sceptical. In 2006, for example, Rolling Stone asserted that

In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Led Zeppelin the 44th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is widely regarded as marking a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.^[17] A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994 and VH1: Music First until 2003) is an American digital 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... 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. ... Hard Rock redirects here. ... Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ...

Accolades

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Miscellaneous

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• Page would later favour a 1959 Gibson Les Paul as his guitar of choice, but on Led Zeppelin he played a psychedelically painted Fender Telecaster, a gift from Jeff Beck after Page recommended his boyhood friend to the Yardbirds in 1965 as potential replacement for Eric Clapton on lead guitar. Page played the Telecaster as his main stage guitar in the band's early shows. He still owns the guitar but retired it after a friend repainted it to a less flattering design and it is currently locked away. He eventually switched to a 1959 Gibson Les Paul given to him by Joe Walsh. His Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty, with 3 pickups, was stolen in 1970 on tour. This gave him some of the distinct guitar tones on Led Zeppelin II.
• Page also used a Gibson J-200, borrowed from Big Jim Sullivan, for the album's acoustic tracks.
• The album was advertised in selected music papers under the slogan "Led Zeppelin - the only way to fly".
• The American TV show One Tree Hill used the song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" in its climatic Season 3 cliffhanger episode.

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Track listing

Side One

1. "Good Times Bad Times" (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham) – 2:46
2. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Robert Plant, Page, Anne Bredon) – 6:41
3. "You Shook Me" (Willie Dixon, J. B. Lenoir) – 6:28
4. "Dazed and Confused" (Page) – 6:26

Side Two Good Times, Bad Times is the first song by British Rock band Led Zeppelin, on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... 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... John Henry Bonzo Bonham (May 31, 1948 – September 25, 1980) was an English drummer and member of the English rock band Led Zeppelin. ... Babe Im Gonna Leave You is a folk song written and recorded by Anne Bredon in the 1950s. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England), is an English rock singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career. ... You Shook Me is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir. ... Willie Dixons style of blues was one of the inspirations for a new generation of music, rock and roll. ... J. B. Lenoir (March 5, 1929 – April 29, 1967) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter born in Monticello, Mississippi. ... Dazed and Confused is a song by folk singer Jake Holmes from his debut solo album The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes, released in June, 1967. ...

1. "Your Time Is Gonna Come" (Page, Jones) – 4:34
2. "Black Mountain Side" (Page) – 2:14
3. "Communication Breakdown" (Page, Jones, Bonham) – 2:27
4. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon) – 4:42
5. "How Many More Times" (Page, Jones, Bonham) – 8:28 (listed as 3:30 on record sleeve deliberately by Jimmy Page in order to trick radio stations into playing the song.)

Robert Plant participated in songwriting, but wasn't given credit due to unexpired contractual obligations. Your Time Is Gonna Come is a song by the rock group Led Zeppelin, from their debut album. ... Black Mountain Side is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... Communication Breakdown is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. ... I Cant Quit You Baby is a song written by bluesman Willie Dixon. ... How Many More Times is the last song by English rock band Led Zeppelin on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England), is an English rock singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career. ...

Some cassette versions of the album reversed the order of the sides. For these versions, side one began with "Your Time Is Gonna Come" and ended with "How Many More Times", while side two began with "Good Times, Bad Times" and ended with "Dazed and Confused".

Personnel

• Jimmy Page – acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, producer
• Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica
• John Paul Jones – bass guitar, organ, keyboards, backing vocals
• John Bonham – drums, timpani, backing vocals
• Viram Jasani – tabla on Black Mountain Side
• Chris Dreja – back liner photo
• George Hardie – cover design
• Glyn Johns – engineer, mixing
• Peter Grant – executive producer

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• Barry Diament - original CD (mid-1980s)
• George Marino - remastered CD (1990)

Chart positions

Album

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Singles

Certifications

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Release details

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See also

• The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

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External links

• Led Zeppelin at MusicBrainz