Artist: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: "PRESENCE REMASTERED (CD)"

Year: 1976
Media type: CD

Presence is the seventh studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on March 31, 1976.

This album was conceived after Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant sustained serious injuries from a car accident on the Greek island of Rhodes on August 5, 1975, which postponed a planned 1975/1976 world tour by the band. At this point, Led Zeppelin were arguably at the height of their popularity. Plant recalls:

“ I was lying there in some pain trying to get cockroaches off the bed and the guy next to me, this drunken soldier, started singing "The Ocean" from Houses of the Holy.”

During a convalescent period on both the Channel Island of Jersey and in Malibu, California, Plant, with Jimmy Page, had written enough material for rehearsals to begin at Hollywood's SIR Studio. The album was subsequently recorded within three weeks at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany, with Plant in a wheelchair. This was the fastest recording turnaround time achieved by the band since their dйbut album. The rushed recording sessions were in part a result of Led Zeppelin having booked the studio immediately prior to The Rolling Stones, who were to record songs for their album Black and Blue. Upon their arrival, the Rolling Stones were amazed that Led Zeppelin's album had indeed been completed (both recorded and mixed) in a mere seventeen days. Jimmy Page had simply stayed awake for two days straight to perform all of the guitar overdubs. In an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine in 1998, Page stated that he worked an average of 18 to 20 hours a day during the mixing period at Musicland Studios:

“ [A]fter the band finished recording all its parts, me and the engineer, Keith Harwood, just started mixing until we would fall asleep. Then whoever would wake up first would call the other and we'd go back in and continue to work until we passed out again.”

Both Page and Plant had planned this album's recording session as a return to hard rock, much like their debut album, except at a new level of complexity. It marked a change in the Led Zeppelin sound towards more straightforward, guitar-based jams. Whereas their previous albums contain electric hard rock anthems balanced with acoustic ballads and intricate arrangements, Presence was seen to include more simplified riffs, and is Led Zeppelin's only studio album that features neither acoustic tracks nor keyboards (almost buried in the mix, a lone acoustic guitar can be heard on "Candy Store Rock"). Page said at the time:

“ I think its was just a reflection of the total anxiety and emotion of that period. There's a hell of a lot of spontaneity about that album. We went in with virtually nothing and everything just came pouring out.”

The album peaked at #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. However, this album has not been one of the band's biggest sellers. In late 1976 it was somewhat overshadowed by the release of the band's movie and soundtrack The Song Remains the Same.

All songs written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page except where noted ("Nobody's Fault But Mine" was a 1920s gospel/blues song recorded by Blind Willie Johnson).

TRACKLIST:

"Achilles Last Stand" – 10:25
"For Your Life" – 6:20
"Royal Orleans" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page, Plant) – 2:58
"Nobody's Fault But Mine" – 6:27
"Candy Store Rock" – 4:07
"Hots on for Nowhere" – 4:43
"Tea for One" – 9:27

LINE-UP:

Jimmy Page – electric guitars, producer
Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica
John Paul Jones – 4- and 8-string bass guitars
John Bonham – drums, percussion

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