Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin (Australian pressing Atlantic SD 7208) YEAR 1971
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ISSUED 1971 ATLANTIC AUSTRALIAN PRESSING
LED ZEPPELIN - " LED ZEPPELIN IV / UNTITLED / ZOSO / SYMBOLS /
Runout (Side 1, stamped): MX165589 1971 SD7208
Runout (Side 2, stamped): MX165590 1971 SD7208
VERY RARE AUSTRALIA VINYL LP STEREO ISSUED 1971 IN ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER (DESIGNED BY HIPGNOSIS) WITH ORIGINAL THICK PAPER INNER SLEEVE.
THE INNER SLEEVE HAS LYRICS / WORDS FOR "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" PRINTED ON ONE SIDE & SONG TITLES, CREDITS & SYMBOLS ON THE OTHER. IT ALSO HAS THE PETER GRANT CREDIT.
This untitled / self titled release was commonly referred to as 'Led Zeppelin IV', to follow in sequence with their previous three releases.
IN AMAZING SHAPE FOR ITS AGE.
Tracklist
A1 Black DogA2 Rock And Roll
A3 The Battle Of Evermore
A4 Stairway To Heaven
B1 Misty Mountain Hop
B2 Four Sticks
B3 Going To California
B4 When The Levee Breaks (SPELT "LEEVEE" ON LABEL)
heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock.
Expanding on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record an epic scope.
Even at its most basic -- the muscular, traditionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology, religion, and the occult.
Plant's mysticism comes to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, and on the epic "Stairway to Heaven." Of all of Zeppelin's songs, "Stairway to Heaven" is the most famous, and not unjustly. Building from a simple finger-picked acoustic guitar to a storming torrent of guitar riffs and solos, it encapsulates the entire album in one song. Which, of course, isn't discounting the rest of the album. "Going to California" is the group's best folk song, and the rockers are endlessly inventive, whether it's the complex, multi-layered "Black Dog," the pounding hippie satire "Misty Mountain Hop," or the funky riffs of "Four Sticks." But the closer, "When the Levee Breaks," is the one song truly equal to "Stairway," helping give IV the feeling of an epic. An apocalyptic slice of urban blues, "When the Levee Breaks" is as forceful and frightening as Zeppelin ever got, and its seismic rhythms and layered dynamics illustrate why none of their imitators could ever equal them.
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PERSONNEL
Led Zeppelin
- John Bonham – drums
- John Paul Jones – bass, electric piano, mandolin, recorders, synthesizer
- Jimmy Page – electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin on "The Battle of Evermore",[90] production, mastering, digital remastering
- Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica
Additional musicians
- Sandy Denny – vocals on "The Battle of Evermore"
- Ian Stewart – piano on "Rock and Roll"[10]
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Quaver Music
- Manufactured By – WEA Records Pty. Limited
- Distributed By – WEA Records Pty. Limited
- Recorded At – Headley Grange
- Recorded At – Island Studios
- Recorded At – Sunset Sound
Credits
- Design [Co-Ordination] – Graphreaks
- Executive-Producer – Peter Grant
- Illustration ['The Hermit'] – Barrington Colby M•O•M
- Producer, Written-By – Jimmy Page
- Written-By – Robert Plant
CONDITION (SEE PICS.)
VINYL: EXCELLENT GLOSSY; FEW MINOR SCUFFS
COVER: VERY GOOD MINOR SMALL CREASES SPINE WEAR
INNER SLEEVE: VG+, FEW VERY MINOR CREASES; MINOR PART OUTER RING IMPRESSION / WEAR
1970's AUSTRALIA PRESSINGS / HARD ROCK /
BLUES ROCK
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