LED ZEPPELIN - JIMMY PAGE: "Physical Graffiti Was The Mother Of All Double Albums"
February 23, 2015, 9 years ago
In 1975, Led Zeppelin holed up in an English manor called Headley Grange to record its sixth studio album, Physical Graffiti. The double album is considered a monumental rock recording; it reached No.1 on Billboard's Top Albums chart and was the first album to ever go platinum on advance orders alone.
As part of an effort to reissue all of the band's albums, guitarist Jimmy Page (also the band's producer) has remastered the groundbreaking album. Out Tuesday, 40 years to the day since the original release of Physical Graffiti, the deluxe edition will include a disc of previously unreleased tracks.
Page shares his memories of Physical Graffiti with Kristin Musulin of USA Today; an excerpt follows:
An album in full: "If you look at the perspective and time frame of it, the one thing that Led Zeppelin didn't have to do when we went in to do studio albums was be chasing a single. ... That gave us the opportunity to really push ourselves musically, you know?"
All killer, no filler: "We weren't the only group, nor the first, to be doing a double album, but I really wanted to make sure by the time that this was ready to be delivered to the record company that this was going to be like the mother of all double albums because it wasn't going to have padding of any description on it."
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