Label: Atlantic Records (US), SD 19126-2
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 44:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 282 Mb
Charts: UK #6, AUS #1, AUT #18, CAN #11, GER #11, NLD #14, NOR #14, SWE #11, US #10. SWI & NLD: Gold; AUS & UK: 2x Platinum; US: 8x Platinum; CAN: Diamond.
In
July 1968, the English rock band the Yardbirds disbanded after two
founder members Keith Relf and Jim McCarty quit the group to form the
band Renaissance, with a third, Chris Dreja, leaving to become a
photographer shortly afterwards. The fourth member, guitarist Jimmy
Page, was left with rights to the name and contractual obligations for a
series of concerts in Scandinavia. Page asked seasoned session player
and arranger John Paul Jones to join as bassist, and hoped to recruit
Terry Reid as singer and Procol Harum's B. J. Wilson as drummer. Wilson
was still committed to Procol Harum, and Reid declined to join but
recommended Robert Plant, who met with Page at his boathouse in
Pangbourne, Berkshire in August to talk about music and work on new
material.
Page and Plant realised they had good musical chemistry
together, and Plant asked friend and Band of Joy bandmate John Bonham to
drum for the new group. The line-up of Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham
first rehearsed on 19 August 1968 (the day before Plant's 20th
birthday), shortly before a tour of 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". After they
returned to London following the tour, Page changed the band's name to
Led Zeppelin, and the group entered Olympic Studios at 11 p.m. on 25
September 1968 to record their debut album.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_(album))
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