And when I was going through it, Robert (Plant) just came up with these lyrics, which were so bang on, it was just absolutely perfect, with a whole plaintive aspect of what it was. We told Page that “Ten Years Gone” - one of the many unsung classics on Physical Graffiti - might actually sum up the essence of him as a musician: “I really appreciate what you’re saying about the, sort, of essence of it, and I must say that I really intended to make something that is like a guitar-orchestral piece, that’s exactly what I intended. So, I had ‘Wonton Song,’ I had 'Sick Again,’ on and on and on.” And one of the ones I had was, like, ‘Ten Years Gone,’ with all the guitar overdubs, because I had a home studio, a multitrack studio, so I could do all this sort of thing and I planned towards it. Jimmy Page said that he laid the ground work for the new material while composing in his home studio: “I made it my business to make sure that we were gonna come up with that amount of material, because I had a good half-a-dozen - even more than half-a-dozen pieces to go in with. Because there was such variety across the other albums, and just to make something that was such a statement, that 'this is what we do, and how we do it, and nobody is anywhere near it.'” And I just thought that it would be really good to add even more colors to the pallet. I knew it was going to be fun to revisit this stuff and sort of even go retro on ourselves. We asked Jimmy Page if he knew going in that Physical Graffiti was going to be a double album - and whether half the set would be comprised of outtakes from the band's previous albums: “I thought about it, but it was as good as the material that we came up with. “The Rover,” “Houses Of The Holy,” and “Black Country Woman” were originally recorded in 1972 for the following year’s Houses Of The Holy collection. Much like the Rolling Stones‘ 1972 double album, Exile On Main Street, Physical Graffiti is a hodge podge of new songs mixed with high quality outtakes from previous albums - “Bron-Yr-Aur” was originally intended for 1970’s Led Zeppelin III “Boogie With Stu,” “Down By The Seaside,” and “Night Flight,” were recorded in 1971 for that year’s Led Zeppelin IV album. Physical Graffiti remains beloved by fans for such Zeppelin classics as “Kashmir,” “Trampled Under Foot,” “Houses Of The Holy,” “In My Time Of Dying,” “Down By The Seaside,” “Boogie With Stu,” “In The Light,” and “The Wonton Song,” among others. The album, which marked the band's only studio double set, was released on February 24th, 1975 and topped the charts for six straight weeks, staying in the Top 10 for 12 weeks. It was 48 years ago today (March 22nd, 1975), that Led Zeppelin's sixth album, Physical Graffiti, hit Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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