LED ZEPPELIN "PHYSICAL GRAFFITI" ORIGINAL 1975 DOUBLE LP PICTURE SLEEVE VINYL

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LED ZEPPELIN 'PHYSICAL GRAFFITI" ORIGINAL 1975 PICTURE SLEEVE DOUBLE LP VINYL
MY FAVORITE ALBUM FROM MY FAVORITE BAND!  I DEFINITELY PLAYED THIS ALBUM ... A LOT ... BACK IN THE DAY, BUT I HAVEN'T OWNED A TURNTABLE FOR CLOSE TO 30 YEARS.  THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN STORAGE FOR ALMOST AS LONG. IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE LED ZEPPELIN ON VINYL, THIS IS A MUST HAVE!
  

Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by their newly founded imprint label Swan Song Records. The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album at Headley Grange, which stretched the total time of the record beyond the typical length of a single LP, so the band decided to make Physical Graffiti a double album by including unreleased tracks from earlier recording sessions: one outtake from Led Zeppelin III, three from Led Zeppelin IV, and three from Houses of the Holy, including the unused title track from the latter album.

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. The album was later certified 16x platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2006, signifying shipments of over eight million copies.

The album's intricate die-cut sleeve design depicts a photograph of a New York City brownstone 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.
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".[3] 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.Doud died in the early 1990s, and this album design was one of his crowning achievements in a lifetime of design. In 1976 the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package.
TRACKLISTING
Side one No. Title Date recorded Length 1. "Custard Pie" January–February 1974 4:15 2. "The Rover" May 1972 (Houses of the Holy outtake) 5:39 3. "In My Time of Dying"  January–February 1974 11:08 Side two No. Title Date recorded Length 4. "Houses of the Holy" May 1972 (Houses of the Holy outtake) 4:04 5. "Trampled Under Foot"  January–February 1974 5:36 6. "Kashmir"  January–February 1974 8:37 Side three No. Title Date recorded Length 7. "In the Light"  January–February 1974 8:47 8. "Bron-Yr-Aur"  July 1970 (Led Zeppelin III outtake) 2:06 9. "Down by the Seaside" February 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV outtake) 5:15 10. "Ten Years Gone" January–February 1974 6:34 Side four No. Title Date recorded Length 11. "Night Flight"  December 1970 – January 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV outtake) 3:38 12. "The Wanton Song" January–February 1974 4:08 13. "Boogie with Stu"  December 1970 – January 1971 (Led Zeppelin IV outtake) 3:52 14. "Black Country Woman" May 1972 (Houses of the Holy outtake) 4:24 15. "Sick Again" January–February 1974 4:42