LED ZEPPELIN 4 Four Very Rare Orig 1971 UK Plum Atlantic LP 2 sticker varient
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Led Zeppelin
4
Very Rare original UK LP released on Atlantic Records in 1971. 1st UK pressing on the 1st Plum and Orange Atlantic label with two stickers covering the Peter Grant Credit and also revised publishing details to 'Kinney Music Ltd/Superhype Music Inc'
Matrix No's
Side One - 2401012 A//3 1 / 11
Side Two - 2401012 B//4 1/ 7
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.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 Black Dog 4:55
2 Rock And Roll 3:40
3 The Battle Of Evermore 5:38
4 Stairway To Heaven 7:55
Side Two
1 Misty Mountain Hop 4:39
2 Four Sticks 4:49
3 Going To California 3:36
4 When The Levee Breaks 7:08
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Released on Atlantic Records in 1971
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Catalogue Number 2401012
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Records are in Ex + condition (few light surface marks from the inner sleeve under a strong light)
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Inner sleeve is in Vg conditon (split bottom and tape stain)
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Sleeve is in Ex + condition
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