The rarest Led Zeppelin album is Led Zeppelin Past, Present and Future. Main Track: Robert Plant and John Paul Jones Interview If the back cover lists Polydor Records and has the brighter green cover, it’s the valuable version. For this album, the version with the altered distribution credits is much darker. This is because the printers layer the new artwork and text credits over the old. This album, like many reissues, is a much darker color than the original printing. In its original printing with the sleeve, Led Zeppelin II often sells for $1,500 or more at auctions. The original label listed copyright credit on the pressing label as “Copyright control.” The reissued version listed Warner Bros/Jewel Music and also includes a production credit for Jimmy Page. There’s also an error on the original label that incorrectly names song 2 as “Living Loving Wreck.” In later editions, this song was renamed “Killing Floor” and credited to Howling Wolf. The first label listed “The Lemon Song,” which got Zeppelin in trouble for copyright infringement. Led Zeppelin II was plagued with printing inconsistencies, which is what makes this such a coveted collector’s item. The album was ready by Winter of ’74 but the die-cut album cover designed by Peter Corriston was actually so complicated to make that the album’s release was delayed until February of ’75. To fill the space, the rest of the songs are actually unreleased tracks from their previous albums, including Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin III, and Led Zeppelin IV.
The band composed and arranged the songs for Physical Graffiti at a country house in Hampshire, where they experimented and recorded enough new ideas to make the album a double. The printer (Gothic Print Finishers Ltd.) appears on the track listing insert. The inside sleeves are also marked by catalog numbers. The coveted first issue of this album, which can sell for upwards of $1,000, has red title text on the spine. It marks the first time in a while that Page relented and allowed titles on the cover art. This is actually the Swan Song office building in London.
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It has the image of tenement buildings on the front with just the windows on the back between the song titles. Its alternate titles include Four Symbols, ZoSo, and Runes. The strategy worked since this album sold more than any Zeppelin album had. After Led Zeppelin III underperformed, Page wanted to add an abstract level of mystery to this one, labeling the album only with four symbols drawn by the band members. Page was warned by the producers not to go with an untitled album. The incorrect top labels and missing information make different issues of this album variable in price, but the rare 1 st pressing with the upside-down feather can sell for $600.
The third issue has a “Misty Mountain Hop” mislabel and the 5 th issue corrected it. The first issue has an upside-down feather on the B side the second issue doesn’t. Its mysterious marketing and guest musicians made this the highest-selling Zeppelin album of all time. Led Zeppelin’s legendary untitled fourth album has a ton of issues and variances in terms of the labeling and pressing.