Artist: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: "HOUSES OF THE HOLY REMASTERED (CD)"

Year: 1973
Media type: CD

Led Zeppelin's next album, Houses of the Holy, was released in 1973. It featured further experimentation, with longer tracks and expanded use of synthesisers and mellotron orchestration. The song "Houses of the Holy" does not appear on its namesake album, even though it was recorded at the same time as other songs on the album; it eventually made its way onto the 1975 album Physical Graffiti.

The striking orange album cover of "Houses of the Holy" features images of nude children[38] climbing up the Giant's Causeway (in County Antrim, Northern Ireland) to an unseen idol. Although the children are not depicted from the front, this was highly controversial at the time of the album's release, and in some areas, such as Spain, the record was banned.

The album topped the charts, and Led Zeppelin's subsequent Houses of the Holy concert tour of the United States in 1973 broke records for attendance, as they consistently filled large auditoriums and stadiums. At Tampa Stadium, Florida, they played to 56,800 fans (breaking the record set by The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1965), and grossed $309,000. Three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York were filmed for a motion picture, but the theatrical release of this project (The Song Remains the Same) would be delayed until 1976.

In 1974 Led Zeppelin took a break from touring and launched their own record label, Swan Song, named after one of only five Led Zeppelin songs which the band never released commercially (Page later re-worked the song with his band, The Firm, and it appears as "Midnight Moonlight" on their first album). The record label's logo, based on a drawing called Evening: Fall of Day (1869) by William Rimmer, features a picture of Apollo (although it is often misinterpreted as a picture of Icarus, Daedelus, Satan, or Lucifer). The logo can be found on much Led Zeppelin memorabilia, especially t-shirts. In addition to using Swan Song as a vehicle to promote their own albums, the band expanded the label's roster, signing artists such as Bad Company, Pretty Things, Maggie Bell, Detective, Dave Edmunds, Midnight Flyer, Sad Cafй and Wildlife. The label would be successful while Led Zeppelin existed, but folded less than three years after they disbanded.

TRACKLIST:

1 "The Song Remains the Same" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 5:32
2 "The Rain Song" (Page, Plant) – 7:39
3 "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Page, Plant) – 4:50
4 "The Crunge" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page, Plant) – 3:17
5 "Dancing Days" (Page, Plant) – 3:43
6 "D'yer Mak'er" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 4:23
7 "No Quarter" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 7:00
8 "The Ocean" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 4:31

LINE-UP:

Jimmy Page – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, banjo
Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica
John Paul Jones – bass, organ, synths, mandolin, backing vocals
John Bonham – drums, percussion, backing vocals

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