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F A C T S
UNTITLED (1971)
Atlantic (US) SD 7208, (UK) K 50008
Released: November 8, 1971
Recorded: Between December 1970 and August 1971 at Island Studios, London; Headley Grange, Hampshire; and Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
TRACK LISTING
Side 1
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Black Dog (Page, Plant, Jones)
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Rock and Roll (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham)
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The Battle Of Evermore (Page, Plant)
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Stairway To Heaven (Page, Plant)
Side 2
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Misty Mountain Hop (Page, Plant, Jones)
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Four Sticks (Page, Plant)
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Going To California (Page, Plant)
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When The Levee Breaks (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham, Memphis Minnie)
Produced: Jimmy Page. Sandy Denny
appears on The Battle of Evermore
courtesy of Island Records
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More Info
Following the third album being mauled by an intense media
slagging, and the band's image also
being subjected to catty remarks,
the band decided to ensure that
nothing would come between the listener and the music. Their manager, Peter Grant,
announced that the band had decided the fourth album
would have no title, no mention of the
group on the outside jacket, and no record company
logos or catalogue numbers and credits. Unsurprisingly, Atlantic
weren't happy but the landmark jacket design was
reluctantly approved. The actual credits for the album,
its track listings, and the lyrics to Stairway to Heaven
are contained on the inner paper sleeve -
marking the first time Led Zeppelin had refrained from the
conventional Atlantic catalogue promo sleeve. And it was the first time the band had utilised a lyric sheet.
Page at this time had a growing
infatuation with the occult philisophy of Aleister
Crowley (1875-1947) and this, combined with Plant's
growing fascination with Celtic mysticism,
led to the most striking and obvious feature on the fourth album,
four very mysterious symbols above the track listings.
Each band-member chose a metaphorical-type symbol
which represented each one of them individually.
The untitled and unadorned fourth album was
finally released on 8 November 1971, almost thirteen
months to the day since the release of the third album.
Strangely, it never reached the number one position
of the US charts though it remained on the
charts longer than any previous Led Zeppelin
album (eventually becoming their biggest seller).
It peaked at number two.
It stayed on the charts the first time around for 39 weeks,
dropping off briefly and then returning in the autumn of
1972. By May 1975, the album was still
in the top 60 after more than three years on the chart.
Predictably, Atlantic wanted Stairway to Heaven
to be released as a single in the US,
even after Black Dog had been released and only reached 47.
Grant and the band were having none of it,
but the rock media came to sniffily refer to the record as the 'Stairway album'.
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