LED ZEPPELIN • PRESENCE • ORIGINAL 1976 FACTORY SEALED 1ST PRESS SWAN VINYL LP

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LED ZEPPELIN PRESENCE
SS 8416 © 1976 SWAN SONG
ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED COPY OF 1976 RELEASE
GATEFOLD COVER WITH EMBOSSED TITLE ON THE FRONT COVER AND EMBOSSED  SWAN SONG LOGO ON BACK COVER
ORIGINAL HYPE STICKER ON FRONT COVER
POSSIBLY FIRST PRESSING (?)
RECORDED & MIXED AT MUSICLAND STUDIOS IN MUNICH, WEST GERMANY

RECORD CONDITION: 

VINYL ALBUM IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED PACKAGING. 

SLEEVE CONDITION: 

GATEFOLD COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP WITH SOME CORNER WEAR (SEE PHOTOS). HYPE STICKER ADHERED TO PLASTIC ON FRONT COVER. ONE FAINT CREASES ON BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT COVER (SHOWN IN PHOTOS). SUPERFICIAL DIRT/DUST VISIBLE ON OUTSIDE PLASTIC, BUT NOT ON THE ACTUAL COVER.

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

• No cut-out (drill) holes
• No cut-out corners 
• No saw-marks or indents
• No split seams
• No damage or bending to spine
• No stains 
• No yellowing from aging 
• No writing 
• No stamps
• No tape or peel-off marks
• No retail or price stickers
• No mold or mildew spots
• No water damage
• No warping or bending 
• No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover
• No glue traces or wax residue
• No barcodes

TRACKLIST:

1 Achilles Last Stand (10:26)

2 For Your Life (6:21)

3 Royal Orleans (2:58)

4 Nobody's Fault But Mine (6:15)

5 Candy Store Rock (4:10)

6 Hots On For Nowhere (4:42)

7 Tea For One (9:27)

NOTES:

Gatefold sleeve with embossed title on the front cover and embossed Swan Song logo on back cover.

Hype sticker with album's song titles on the shrink wrap.

Printed on spine:

LED ZEPPELIN        PRESENCE       SWAN SONG  SS 8416   0698

Printed on back cover:

SWAN SONG INC., 444 MADISON AVENUE, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, DISTRIBUTED BY ATLANTIC RECORDING CORP., 75 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, N.Y., N.Y. 10019, ? © 1976 ATLANTIC RECORDING CORP., PRINTED IN U.S.A., "THE OBJECT" ©1976 SWAN SONG INC.

DISCOGRAPHY: 

"Presence" is the seventh studio album by Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on 31 March 1976. The cover, inside sleeve and back of the album features various images of people with a black obelisk-shaped object. Inside the album sleeve, the item is referred to simply as "The Object" aka "The Obelisk". It was intended to represent the "force and presence" of Led Zeppelin.

Jimmy Page explained: "There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said 'When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it 'Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on [the film] 2001 A Space Odyessy. I think it's quite amusing."

Jimmy Page made the decision to record the album after Robert Plant sustained serious injuries from a car accident on the Greek island of Rhodes on 5 August 1975, which forced the band to cancel a proposed world tour that was due to commence on 23 August.

At this point, Led Zeppelin were arguably at the height of their popularity. When he was taken to a Greek hospital after the accident, Plant recalled:

"I was lying there in some pain trying to get cockroaches off the bed and the guy next to me, this drunken soldier, started singing "The Ocean" from Houses of the Holy."

The background used in the cover photograph is of an artificial marina that was installed inside London's Earl's Court Arena for the annual Earl's Court Boat Show that was held in the winter of 1974–75. This was the same venue where the band played a series of concerts a few months after the boat show, in May 1975.

In 1977 Hipgnosis and George Hardie were nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package.

PLEASE REFERENCE PHOTOS FOR ACCURATE LOOK AT CONDITION

Please Note: I took care to photograph the album from multiple angles to provide you with the best true-to-life view of all of its corners and sides as well as the front and back covers, so please review them closely. I'm happy to provide additional photos upon request.

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All of my albums come from the private collection of a 20+ year London Records Executive who worked for the label in New York City during the 60s, 70s, and into the early to mid-80s. 

My uncle and I inherited his entire record collection. Every LP we list comes 

exclusively out of that private collection.

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