{"id":55939,"date":"2025-08-09T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55939\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:27:11","slug":"led-zeppelin-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of-physical-graffiti-with-reissue-of-deluxe-edition-180g-3lp-set-plus-a-separate-previously-unreleased-4-track-180g-live-e-p-on-september-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55939\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Physical Graffiti With Reissue of Deluxe Edition 180g 3LP Set, Plus a Separate, Previously Unreleased 4-Track 180g Live E.P., on September 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSounds caress my ear and the story is quite clear, as Led Zeppelin have just announced plans for how they\u2019re going to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 1975\u2019s seminal double-album extravaganza Physical Graffiti. To that end, the mighty Zep will be releasing a) an all-new Live E.P. on 180g vinyl, in addition to b) an updated 50th Anniversary edition of 2015\u2019s Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition 180g 3LP set, both of which are coming out via Swan Song on September 12, 2025.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe new Live E.P. features four live recordings in total, two per each 12in side. (The studio versions of each live track appear on Physical Graffiti proper.) On Side One, \u201cIn My Time of Dying\u201d and \u201cTrampled Under Foot\u201d come from Earl\u2019s Court in London in May 1975, while Side Two features \u201cSick Again\u201d and \u201cKashmir\u201d from Knebworth, England, in August 1979. Eagle ears (and eyes!) will recall these four live performances were originally released on DVD2 in 2003\u2019s still-cherished Led Zeppelin DVD set via Atlantic, but now they\u2019re finally appearing officially on vinyl for the first time. (Yes, my fellow Zep completists, companion CD and digital options for the Live E.P. will also be made available on the same release date.)\n<\/p>\n

\nNaturally, many of us hardcore Zep fans have, er, various unauthorized vinyl editions of the balance of the multiple Earl\u2019s Court and Knebworth gigs, but it will certainly be a beautiful thing to get a quartet of approved live tracks between them on wax. To whet your Live E.P. whistle, here\u2019s the official YouTube clip for \u201cTrampled Under Foot,\u201d as Zep performed it at Earl\u2019s Court in London, in May 1975. Hands up \u2014 how many of you always thought \u201cUnder Foot\u201d in that song title was actually one word, and not two? Well, some of you might get a pass on that since it appears as one word on both the back cover and interior credits on the DVD package, but I digress. . . anyway, enjoy the clip!\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nHere\u2019s hoping full-show releases from both Earl\u2019s Court and Knebworth are in the offing for future multi-LP Zep sets. At the very least, six performances from Earl\u2019s Court (albeit sans the apostrophe, on the packaging) and seven from Knebworth appear on DVD2 in that aforementioned Led Zeppelin DVD release, so individual 1LP options are certainly doable for each locale (if not more, please!).\n<\/p>\n

\nAlso, if memory serves, when I bought my first two unauthorized Zep LP forays back in my college days, I had to outlay close to a C-note in total for both of \u2019em, collectively speaking. (Thankfully, I had banked some extra cash from my summer job at a local technical book publisher for just these kinds of \u201cunforeseen expenditures.\u201d) My initial Knebworth vinyl offering came in a sleeve with a cover logo style mirroring that of the angled, purple rubber-stamp-bleed band name\/album title rectangular block seen on the brown-bag cover wrap that housed Zep\u2019s August 1979 LP In Through the Out Door, while my first Earl\u2019s Court outing on wax sported a B&W photo of a semi-shirted Robert Plant onstage in front of a microphone and looking at something off-camera at stage right, along with the band name split in two above and below him, all of it done in handbill style in light lime-green as a partial wraparound on its otherwise white cardboard outer sleeve.\n<\/p>\n

\nBack to the official stuff now! The Live E.P. sports an SRP of $19.95, and it can be pre-ordered directly from Zep\u2019s official site here<\/a>, in addition to Rhino\u2019s official site here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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\nAs for the companion Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition 3LP vinyl set, it has an SRP of $64.95, and it can be pre-ordered from Zep here<\/a> and Rhino here<\/a>, as well as Music Direct here<\/a>. It\u2019s being called the \u201cupdated 50th Anniversary edition\u201d of 2015\u2019s Jimmy Page-approved reissue that features the officially dubbed Companion Audio third LP that serves up a combo platter of seven then-unreleased rough mixes and early versions. (All of those tracks are named in the tracklisting section near the end of this story.) All new-to-2025 3LP sets now include the new bonus replica Physical Graffiti promo poster (which measures 443 x 610mm), while the 3LP version available in both the Zep and Rhino stores also include a replica of the Earl\u2019s Court concert program (sorry, I meant \u201cprogramme\u201d).\n<\/p>\n

\nMy own copy of the February 2015 release came as part of the mondo-expensive PG Super Deluxe Edition box set, and I\u2019m happy to get another set of those 3LPs in hand to see if there have been any aural upgrades involved. Speaking of that ten-years-gone prior edition of PG, the Music is a clear 10.5 and the Sound was a solid 8.5, as I didn\u2019t experience any of the \u201cHoly\u201d-related skipping issues others have oft-groused about out there on the interwebs. And I still have my well-preserved original 1975 2LP Swan Song set for further comparison \u2014 well-preserved both inside and outside, I might add, as I made for damn sure all those smallish, die-cut tenement windows on both the front and back cover never got bent or ripped. Needless to say, we will be reviewing both the Live E.P. and 2025 3LP Physical Graffiti set here on AP once we have them in hand. (And, if we get further details about where all this new vinyl was pressed and what the source material was, we\u2019ll include that info as well.)\n<\/p>\n

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\nMore background on PG and E.P. (periods in the latter title officially theirs, and not necessarily our abbreviation choice) now, some of which comes via the official press release, along with my own added commentary. Released via Swan Song on February 24, 1975, in the U.S. (and four days later in the UK), Led Zeppelin\u2019s sixth studio LP Physical Graffiti boasted 15 tracks spread across four sides, and it immediately achieved platinum (i.e., million-selling) status. More recently, PG has been certified as 17x platinum.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn that press statement, vocalist Robert Plant observed that Physical Graffiti \u201cgoes from one extreme to the other, but at the same time, it\u2019s very evident that it\u2019s Zeppelin. [. . .] I love the album, and it does work as a double album. There are some real humdinger, roaring tracks.\u201d Added bassist\/keyboardist John Paul Jones, \u201cI\u2019m a big fan of Physical Graffiti. [It] was very wide-ranging. It probably was a pinnacle.\u201d (I most wholeheartedly agree with both Zep-men\u2019s PG assessments!)\n<\/p>\n

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\nGuitarist\/producer Jimmy Page began the initial work on what ultimately became PG at his home studio in Plumpton, Sussex, England, in the summer and autumn of 1973, with the first recording sessions taking place that October at Headley Grange, using Ronnie Lane\u2019s Mobile Studio. Further sessions at Headley continued in January 1974. Additional overdubs were recorded at Olympic Studios, where Page completed mixing of the album in July 1974.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs Page observed, \u201cWe had enough material for one-and-a-half LPs, so I figured, \u2018Let\u2019s put out a double, and use some of the material we\u2019d done previously but never released.\u2019 I always thought the sequencing of an album was really important, and that was part of my role as the producer.\u201d (Brief sidenote: I asked Page directly about the importance of vinyl and sequencing at Zep\u2019s press conference in NYC for Celebration Day on October 9, 2012 \u2014 but that\u2019s an analog-lovin\u2019 story for another post, another time. Don\u2019t let me forget, though!)\n<\/p>\n

\nPhysical Graffiti was not only Zep\u2019s first double LP, it was also the first release on their new label, Swan Song, which launched in May 1974. The album\u2019s release was announced on November 13, 1974, and it came out four months later. The 2LP set was comprised of new compositions including \u201cKashmir,\u201d \u201cSick Again,\u201d \u201cTen Years Gone,\u201d \u201cThe Wanton Song,\u201d \u201cCustard Pie,\u201d \u201cTrampled Under Foot,\u201d and \u201cIn My Time of Dying.\u201d Also included were unreleased songs from earlier album sessions, including \u201cHouses of the Holy,\u201d \u201cThe Rover,\u201d and \u201cBlack Country Woman\u201d from the Houses of the Holy sessions; \u201cDown by the Seaside,\u201d \u201cBoogie With Stu,\u201d and \u201cNight Flight\u201d from the Untitled \u2014 a.k.a. Led Zeppelin IV \u2014 sessions; and \u201cBron-Yr-Aur\u201d from the Led Zeppelin III sessions. (Those three Zep albums were released in 1973, 1971, and 1970, respectively.)\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd what of the E.P.\u2019s respective live settings? Following Zep\u2019s 10-week North American tour that ran from January through March 1975, the band played five sold-out nights at London\u2019s Earl\u2019s Court in May 1975. Initially, three shows were announced, with another two added after an overwhelming demand for tickets. Of his own EC experience, drummer John Bonham observed, \u201cOn the last night at Earl\u2019s Court, we played \u2018Heartbreaker\u2019 [from 1969\u2019s Zep II] \u2018Black Dog\u2019 [from 1971\u2019s Zep IV], and a bit from \u2018Out on the Tiles\u2019 [from 1970\u2019s Zep III]. With the songs from Physical Graffiti, we\u2019ve got such a wide range of material.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\nFast-forward about four years to when Zep headlined both nights of the Knebworth Festival, which took place at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, England, on August 4 and 11, 1979. These were Led Zeppelin\u2019s first live dates since their 1977 North American tour and their first U.K. dates since the above-noted Earl\u2019s Court 1975 shows. Sadly, they would also be among the band\u2019s last shows ever, prior to Bonham\u2019s passing a year later in September 1980. Me, I had a ticket to see Zep play in Pittsburgh in 1980, but alas, that tour just wasn\u2019t meant to be. Thankfully, we have audio and video from many (if not all!) of those latter-era Zep gigs to enjoy in various formats \u2014 and, hopefully, many more of them will appear officially on vinyl in the months and years to come. Let\u2019s make it sooner than later, eh lads. . .\n<\/p>\n

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\nLED ZEPPELIN
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LIVE E.P.
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180g 1EP (Swan Song)\n<\/p>\n

\nSide One: Earl\u2019s Court \u2013 1975
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1. In My Time Of Dying
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2. Trampled Under Foot\n<\/p>\n

\nSide Two: Knebworth \u2013 1979
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1. Sick Again
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2. Kashmir\n<\/p>\n

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\nLED ZEPPELIN
\n
PHYSICAL GRAFFITI \u2013 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
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180g 3LP (Swan Song)\n<\/p>\n

\nLP1, Side One
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1. Custard Pie
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2. The Rover
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3. In My Time Of Dying\n<\/p>\n

\nLP1, Side Two
\n
1. Houses Of The Holy
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2. Trampled Under Foot
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3. Kashmir\n<\/p>\n

\nLP2, Side Three
\n
1. In The Light
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2. Bron-Yr-Aur
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3. Down By The Seaside
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4. Ten Years Gone\n<\/p>\n

\nLP2, Side Four
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1. Night Flight
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2. The Wanton Song
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3. Boogie With Stu
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4. Black Country Woman
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5. Sick Again\n<\/p>\n

\nLP3, Side Five \u2013 Companion Audio
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1. Brandy & Coke (Trampled Under Foot) (Initial Rough Mix)
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2. Sick Again (Early Version)
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3. In My Time Of Dying (Initial Rough Mix)\n<\/p>\n

\nLP3, Side Six \u2013 Companion Audio ctd.
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1. Houses Of The Holy (Rough Mix With Overdubs)
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2. Everybody Makes It Through (In The Light) (Early Version \/ In Transit)
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3. Boogie With Stu (Sunset Sound Mix)
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4. Driving Through Kashmir (Kashmir) (Rough Orchestra Mix)\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Music<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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In My Time of Posing: The mighty Zep doing the photo shoot thing, courtesy the packaging in the 2015 edition of Physical Graffiti. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sounds caress my ear and the story is quite clear, as Led Zeppelin have just announced plans for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-55939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}