"But it was the first time we'd actually stayed together. "It was all a bit experimental," John Paul Jones says. I was keen on this whole idea of using it as a workplace so you could concentrate totally on the effort of making the music, while residing at the location." Jimmy Page, who also produced the album, says: "After the brief stay that Robert and I had at Bron-Yr-Aur cottage, I could see a situation where we all resided at Headley Grange and had a recording truck. They converted the house into a recording studio and used THE ROLLING STONES' mobile studio to record most of the album's basic tracks with engineer Andy Johns, who also engineered some of "Led Zeppelin II" and "III". A month later, the band moved to Headley Grange, a country house in Hampshire, England. 2 in Australia, Denmark, France, Sweden, as well as the U.S., where it remains the best-selling album of the band's catalog.īefore the success and accolades of 1971, the band first spent the fall and winter of 1970 writing and recording "Led Zeppelin IV", with early recording sessions beginning in London at Island Studios in December 1970.
"Led Zeppelin IV" also topped the album charts in the U.K., Canada, and the Netherlands, and peaked at No. (6x),and France (2x) platinum in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Spain and gold in Germany (3x). Outside America, the album is certified diamond in Canada (x2) multi-platinum in Australia (9x),the U.K. In the U.S., the album was recently certified 24 times platinum by the RIAA, ranking as the fifth best-selling album of all time as well as the best-selling album by a British artist (tied with "The Beatles" a.k.a. As an artistic statement, the record struck a chord that continues to resonate globally among music fans while inspiring generations of musicians.Ĭommercially, "Led Zeppelin IV" is a juggernaut, selling more than 37 million copies worldwide.
"Led Zeppelin IV" remains one of the most creatively influential and commercially successful albums in the history of music. LED ZEPPELIN's fourth studio album, better known as "Led Zeppelin IV", arrived 50 years ago on November 8, 1971.
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