Led Zeppelin IV

The untitled fourth studio album by Led Zeppelin, commonly known as “Led Zeppelin IV”, was originally released in 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was produced by guitarist Jimmy Page in the country house Headley Grange. The album is notable for featuring “Stairway To Heaven”, one of the biggest songs of all time.

The informal setting at Headley Grange inspired the band, allowing them to try different arrangements of material and create songs in various styles. After the band’s previous album received lukewarm reviews from critics, they decided their fourth album would officially be untitled and would be represented instead by four symbols chosen by each band member, without featuring the name or any other details on the cover. As with prior albums, most of the material was written by the band, though there was one cover song, a hard rock re-interpretation of the Memphis Minnie blues song “When The Levee Breaks”.

The album was a commercial and critical success and is Led Zeppelin’s best-selling album, shipping over 37 million copies worldwide, while critics have regularly placed it highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time.

This is the excellent 2014 reissue, remastered by Jimmy Page!