LED ZEPPELIN - KASHMIR

KASHMIR

LED ZEPPELIN

SONGWITERS: JOHN BONHAM, JIMMY PAGE & ROBERT PLANT

WHERE: LIVE FROM CELEBRATIN DAY

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: PHYSICAL GRAFFITI

LABEL: SWAN SONG RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 1975

Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by the group's new record label, Swan Song Records.

The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album in early 1974 at Headley Grange, a country house in Hampshire, which gave them ample time to improvise arrangements and experiment with recording. The total playing time covered three sides of an LP, so they decided to expand it into a double by including previously unreleased tracks from the sessions for the earlier albums Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy. The album covered a range of styles including hard rock, progressive rock, rock 'n' roll and folk. The album was then mixed over summer 1974 and planned for an end-of year release. It was delayed because of the sleeve, which was designed by Peter Corriston and featured a theme around a tenement block in Manhattan, New York.

Physical Graffiti was commercially and critically successful upon its release and debuted at number one on album charts in both the US and the UK. It was promoted by a successful US tour and a five-night residency at Earl's Court, London, and has since been viewed as one of the group's strongest albums and the artistic peak of their career. The album has been reissued on CD several times, including an expansive 40th anniversary edition in 2015. Physical Graffiti was later certified 16× platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2006, signifying shipments of over eight million copies.

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal. Their style drew from a wide variety of influences, including blues, psychedelia, and folk music.

After changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Although the group were initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with eight studio albums released over eleven years, from Led Zeppelin(1969) to In Through the Out Door(1979). Their untitled fourth studio album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV(1971) and featuring the song "Stairway to Heaven", is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and it helped to secure the group's popularity.

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face

Stars to fill my dream

I am a traveler of both time and space

To be where I have been

To sit with elders of the gentle race

This world has seldom seen

They talk of days for which they sit and wait

When all will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace

Whose sounds caress my ear

But not a word I heard could I relate

The story was quite clear

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, I been flying

Mama, there ain't no denying

Oh, yeah, I've been flying

Mama, ain't no denying, no denying

All I see turns to brown as the sun burns the ground

And my eyes fill with sand

As I scan this wasted land trying to find

Trying to find, trying to find where I've been

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace

Like thoughts inside a dream

Hid the path that led me to that place

Yellow desert stream

My Shangri-la beneath the summer moon

I will return again

Sure as the dust that floats high in June

When moving through Kashmir

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails

Across the sea of years

With no provision, but an open face

Along the straits of fear

Oh, oh, oh, oh

When I'm on

When I'm on my way, yeah

When I see

When I see the way, you stay, yeah

Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah

When I'm down

Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah

When I'm down

Oh, my baby, oh, my baby

Let me take you there.