Label: Atlantic Records (US), SD 19129-2
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 42:36
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 262 Mb
Charts:
UK #1, AUS #2, AUT #12, CAN #1, GER #5, JPN #2, NLD #7, NOR #3, SWE #8,
US #2. GER: 3x Gold; NLD: Platinum; SWI: 2x Platinum; UK: 6x Platinum;
AUS: 9x Platinum; CAN & US: 2x Diamond.
Following the release
of Led Zeppelin III in October 1970, the group took a break from live
performances to concentrate on recording a follow-up. They turned down
all touring offers, including a proposed New Year's Eve gig that would
have been broadcast on television. They returned to Bron-Yr-Aur, a
country house in Snowdonia, Wales, to write new material.
Recording
sessions for the album began at Island Records' new studios on Basing
Street in London on 5 December 1970, with the recording of "Black Dog".
The group had considered Mick Jagger's home, Stargroves as a recording
location, but decided it was too expensive. They subsequently moved the
following month to Headley Grange, a country house in Hampshire,
England, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio and the engineer Andy
Johns, with the Stones' Ian Stewart assisting. Johns had just worked on
engineering Sticky Fingers and recommended the mobile studio. The
guitarist and producer Jimmy Page later recalled: "We needed the sort of
facilities where we could have a cup of tea and wander around the
garden and go in and do what we had to do." This relaxed, atmospheric
environment at Headley Grange also provided other advantages for the
band, as they were able to capture spontaneous performances immediately,
with some tracks arising from the communal jamming. The bassist and
keyboardist John Paul Jones remembered there was no bar or leisure
facilities, but this helped focus the group on the music without being
distracted.
Once the basic tracks had been recorded, the band added
overdubs at Island Studios in February. The band spent five days at
Island, before Page then took the multitrack tapes to Sunset Sound in
Los Angeles for mixing on 9 February, on Johns' recommendation, with a
plan for an April 1971 release. Mixing would take ten days, before Page
travelled back to London with the newly mixed material. The band had a
playback at Olympic Studios. The band disliked the results, and so after
touring through the spring and early summer, Page remixed the whole
album in July. The album was delayed again over the choice of cover and
whether it should be a double album, with a possible suggestion it could
be issued as a set of EPs.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV)
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