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| Houses of the Holy | ||
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| Album by Led Zeppelin | ||
| Released | March 28, 1973 | |
| Recorded | January- August, 1972 at both Stargroves , England and Headley Grange , Hampshire, with The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio ; Island Studios , London. Mixed at Olympic Studios, London; Electric Lady , New York. | |
| Producer | Jimmy Page | |
| GenreMusical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. See also musical form. Some genres, such as Indian music, are geographically defined; others, like Baroque music, are largely defined b | Hard rockHard rock is a form of rock and roll music that finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock. Budgie, AC/DC, The Stooges, MC5, Living Colour, Prong, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple are easy to find examples of hard rock. Van Ha | |
| Length | 40 minA minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. Some rare minutes have 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. a unit of angle, 1/60th of a degree. It is then also known as a minute of angle or minute of arc and can further be divided 56 sThis article is about the unit of time. See second (disambiguation) for other uses The second (symbol s is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. It is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transi | |
| Record labelA record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. The name derives from the paper label | Atlantic RecordsRecord labels Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation is a record label founded in 1947 by the Ertegun brothers, Herb Abramson and others. Athough it began as an independent record company, it became a major player in the jazz and pop music busine | |
| Catalogue | (US) Atlantic 7255 (UK) Atlantic K50014 | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Q review | 3/5 | December 2000 (remastered version) |
| Led Zeppelin Chronology | ||
| UntitledThe fourth album released by the British blues/ rock band Led Zeppelin is variously referred to as Four Symbols , Runes , Sticks , Zoso (after the approximate shape of the symbols used as a title) or simply IV , although none of these were its official ti ( 1971) | Houses of the Holy ( 1973) | Physical Graffiti ( 1975) |
Houses of the Holy is an album by Led Zeppelin released by Atlantic Records on March 28, 1973 (see 1973 in music). The album title is a dedication by the band to their fans who appeared at venues they dubbed, "houses of the holy". "D'yer Mak'er" is a reggae-based tune, and is a play on words from the joke "My wife's been to the West Indies" " Jamaica?" "No, she went of her own accord". The song "The Ocean" is also dedicated to the "sea" of fans which came to Led Zeppelin concerts. The cover photograph was taken at the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland. Some releases of the album have a paper outer sleeve hiding the naked children.
The album cover was inspired by the ending of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End.