LED ZEPPELIN IV Classic Records / Atlantic Records SD 7208 180g (MINT)
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Jun 3, 2018 Sold Date
May 24, 2018 Start Date
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Description

LED ZEPPELIN IV Classic Records / Atlantic Records SD 7208 (180g QUIEX SV Super Vinyl) All Analog mastering by Bernie Grundman

Tracklist

A1 Black Dog A2 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

*(all photos are of the actual item)

  • Lacquer Cut By – Bernie Grundman from the original anlaog master.

Personnel

    • John Bonham – drums, percussion
    • John Paul Jones – bass guitar, electric piano, mandolin on "Going to California", recorders, EMS VCS 3, acoustic guitar on "The Battle of Evermore"
    • Jimmy Page – electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin on "The Battle of Evermore", production, mastering, digital remastering
    • Robert Plant – lead and overdubbed backing vocals, tambourine, harmonica on "When the Levee Breaks"
    • Sandy Denny – vocals on "The Battle of Evermore"
    • Ian Stewart – piano on "Rock and Roll"
    • Barrington Colby M.O.M. – The Hermit illustration
    • George Chkiantz – mixing
    • Peter Grant – executive production
    • Andy Johns – engineering, mixing

Notes

180 gram vinyl. 

Inner sleeve has lyrics to 'Stairway to Heaven' on one side and track titles and credits on the other. 

Recorded At Headley Grange, Hampshire Island Studios London 
Mastered At Sunset Sound, Los Angeles CA

  • Matrix / Runout (Side One): SD-7208-A BG
  • Matrix / Runout (Side Two): SD-7208-B BG
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
     Encompassing 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 fingerpicked 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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