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LED ZEPPELIN IV

Forty years ago Led Zeppelin ruled the charts and airwaves with the epic (and overplayed) “Strairway to Heaven”. I still remember when I first heard it. I was a senior in HS and my girlfriend’s best friend was ultra hip. She had somehow got a copy of LZ IV before the stores carried it. One listen and I knew what I’d be playing for my “Creative Poetry” class the following week. Everybody was mesmerized as the LP spun that day. I went King Crab fishing in Alaska six months later and was essentially incommunicado. By the time I returned it was playing every half hour on the radio.

For the best sonics on this album, pick up the original CD, or better yet, look for an original US or UK LP with “Porky” written in the dead wax (run out area). Joe Sidore mastered the first CD release, and George Peckham cut the first records. Crank it up!

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(Cover Artist and Photographer: Unknown)