The Led Zeppelin reissue programme continues next month with an anniversary special – the new edition of Physical Graffiti arrives on 23 February, almost exactly 40 years after the album was first released – on 24 February 1975.
As with the first five albums in the Zeppelin reissue series, Physical Graffiti will be available in assorted formats of varying deluxeness, from a remastered version of the original album on two CDs at the bottom end, through to a super deluxe box containing the original album and a companion disc on both CD and vinyl, plus a hardback book, download card, and art print.
Fans’s interest will once again be centred on the unreleased tracks on the companion disc. This time they are:
Brandy & Coke (Trampled Under Foot – initial rough mix)
Sick Again (early version)
In My Time of Dying (initial rough mix)
Houses of the Holy (rough mix with overdubs)
Everybody Makes It Through (In the Light early version/in transit)
Boogie With Stu (Sunset Sound mix)
Driving Through Kashmir (Kashmir rough orchestra mix)
Everybody Makes It Through is described as “strikingly different” to the finished version of In the Light.
Physical Graffiti was a huge hit, going platinum 16 times over in the US, and is widely regarded as one of Zeppelin’s greatest albums for its variety of moods and styles, from the Eastern tinged epic rock of Kashmir, through the blues of In My Time of Dying, to the heavy funk-rock of Trampled Underfoot. On its release, Rolling Stone said the album “only confirms Led Zepplin’s preeminence among hard rockers”, though the magazine’s reviewer claimed Kashmir and In My Time of Dying – two of the group’s best-loved songs – “succumb to monotony”.
