Description Led Zeppelin PHYSICAL GRAFFITI ...Lp is the original 2 Lp SWAN...Cover is VG+/VG++ tape on back ~~~goes from top to bottom . Records are VG+/VG++ and Play well Buyer to pay $4.00 s/h Thanks for lookingAll tracks written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, except where noted.Side oneNo.TitleDate and locationLength1."Custard Pie"January–February 1974, Headley Grange, Hampshire4:132."The Rover"May 1972, Stargroves (Houses of the Holy outtake)5:363."In My Time of Dying" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange11:04Side twoNo.TitleDate recordedLength4."Houses of the Holy"May 1972, Olympic Studios, London (Houses of the Holy outtake)4:015."Trampled Under Foot" (Jones, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange5:356."Kashmir" (Bonham, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange8:37[d]Side threeNo.TitleDate recordedLength7."In the Light" (Jones, Page, and Plant)January–February 1974, Headley Grange8:448."Bron-Yr-Aur" (Page[e])July 1970, Island Studios, London (Led Zeppelin III outtake)2:069."Down by the Seaside"February 1971, Island Studios, London (Led Zeppelin IV outtake)5:1410."Ten Years Gone"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."The Wanton Song"January–February 1974, Headley Grange4:0613."Boogie with Stu" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant, Ian Stewart, 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."Sick Again"January–February 1974, Headley Grange4:43 length:41:29 Physical GraffitiStudio album by Led ZeppelinReleased24 February 1975RecordedJuly and December 1970, January–March 1971, May 1972, January–February 1974 at multiple locationsGenreRock[1]Length82:59LabelSwan SongProducerJimmy PageLed Zeppelin chronologyHouses of the Holy (1973)Physical Graffiti (1975)Presence (1976)Singles from Physical Graffiti"Trampled Under Foot/Black Country Woman" Released: 2 April 1975Physical 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 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. It was delayed because of the sleeve, which was designed by Peter Corriston and featured a theme around a tenement block in Manhattan, New York.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 Earl's Court, London, and has since been viewed as one of the group's strongest albums and the artistic peak of their career. ********************Unreleased materialAs 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, Presence. A number of other outtakes from earlier album sessions that had not been put on Physical Graffiti were later included on the 1982 album Coda.Artwork and packaging96 and 98 East 8th Street / St. Mark's Place (Manhattan)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.The two five-storey buildings photographed for the album cover are located at 96 and 98 St. Mark's Place in New York City.[10] 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 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. Fallen, 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.Release and critical receptionProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic[33]Christgau's Record GuideB+[34]The Daily Telegraph[35]Encyclopedia of Popular Music[36]MusicHound Rock4.5/5[37]Q[38]The Rolling Stone Album Guide[39]The Village VoiceB[40]Physical Graffiti was Led Zeppelin'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 first announced to the press on 6 November with a planned release date of 29 November and an accompanying US tour (the band's tenth) starting in January.[41] Delays in the production of the album's sleeve design prevented its release prior to the commencement of the tour.[42] It was finally released on 24 February 1975.[41] The group debuted several songs from Physical Graffiti live for the first time at a warm-up gig in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 11 January, a week before the US tour, which lasted until 27 March.[47] The tour was also successful, and was followed up by a series of shows at Earl's Court, 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.[47] The shows attracted rave reviews, and critics noted the band enjoyed playing the new material on Physical Graffiti more than the older songs.[48]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 Billboard's Pop Albums chart, rising to No. 1 the following week and staying there for six weeks. [43] Physical Graffiti has since proven to be one of the most popular releases by the group, shipping 8 million copies in the United States.[44] It was the first album to go platinum on advance orders alone.[45] Shortly after its release, all previous Led Zeppelin albums simultaneously re-entered the top-200 album chart.[46]NME's Nick Kent 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".[49] 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."[50] 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".[51] 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".[34]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.[52] 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.[53] 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".