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Artist:Led Zeppelin
Title:Led Zeppelin
Label:  Atlantic
Country:UK
Catalogue:588 171
Date:Apr 1969
Format:LP
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 41 Own, 7 Want
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Led ZeppelinGood Times Bad TimesPage, Jones, Bonham9.1  Rate
A2Led ZeppelinBabe I'm Gonna Leave YouTrad. arr. Page9.1  Rate
A3Led ZeppelinYou Shook MeDixon8.6  Rate
A4Led ZeppelinDazed And ConfusedPage9.4  Rate
B1Led ZeppelinYour Time Is Gonna ComePage, Jones8.7  Rate
B2Led ZeppelinBlack Mountain SidePage8.3  Rate
B3Led ZeppelinCommunication BreakdownPage, Jones, Bonham9.6  Rate
B4Led ZeppelinI Can't Quit You BabyDixon8.1  Rate
B5Led ZeppelinHow Many More TimesPage, Jones, Bonham9.3  Rate


Notes

Charted April 12, 1969

Produced by Jimmy Page

Executive Producer: Peter Grant

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Comments and Reviews
 
albert
20th Dec 2024
 I finally had the opportunity to do a side by side comparison of the original turquoise/cyan cover with a later 1970s pressing, see the new pic. Thank you to Ben at The Little Record Shop for allowing me to take pics.
My idea was to use photoshop to analyse colouring on the back cover sepia style photo, to see if cyan is in the mix. Unfortunately results were inconclusive, cyan registers very low on selected areas of both covers and may only be there due to the lighting when the pics were taken.
However, you may be interested to see how far the image degraded after only a few years. On the original cyan sleeve the back cover (right) has a nicely clear and detailed image, whereas on the later pressing (mid 1970s) the image is faded and lacking in detail.
On my own early pressing the back photo image looks identical to that on the cyan sleeve, it is clear and detailed, ...which is a disappointment as I was hoping to see at least some degradation in the quality.
 

 
Record-Finder
11th Mar 2024
 Never seen an original lp of turquoise sleeve. I own a copy of the orange lettering cover not sure if it's original or reissue. I own a copy of the unofficial release in blue cover.
I am looking for an original copy turqoise cover and record in fair condition or better.
Anyone have a spare original to sell?
 

 
deepinder cheema
4th Apr 2018
 It looks like that the first pressing is firstly with Orange lettering [same as the US release which preceded it]

and something happened ... it became turquoise. Then back to Orange again.


In the light of this being true.. does it make sense of orange sleeves and Superhype discs?
 

 
VinylSid
9th Nov 2017
 Turquoise text copy fetched £562.00 on ebay this week
 

 
deepinder cheema
8th May 2017
 Yes you are right. Looks like the wide rather ugly typeface was introduced after Nov '71
 

 
Focus B
7th May 2017
 I've noticed the label uploads for Yes' "Fragile" album having to older narrow typeface however!

I'm sure my copy of IV has the narrow typeface. I'll have a look in due course.
 

 
deepinder cheema
6th May 2017
 I noticed the new typeface on the 4th album released November 1971. How can we determine when the typeface changed? It would be possible if other Atlantic releases before reflected this.
 

 
Focus B
6th May 2017
 Added labels from early 1971 issue with different typeface. Interestingly the matrix for Side One is 588171 //1 with Side Two 588171 *4 (* in place of inverted triangle). Inverted triangle usually reserved for mono records! Interesting to note the publishing credit remains Warner Bros/7 Arts which may suggest the label images uploaded by Albert Swaps could be later still.

Interesting to hear what matrixes are used for the other copies uploaded.
 

 
Focus B
5th May 2017
 Added Polydor advertising inner sleeve. With "The Yes Album" included but not "Led Zeppelin IV" my copy of this album must date from early 1971. Noticed too the typeface on the labels differ from those already uploaded. I'll include my 1971 labels in due course.
 

 
AlbertSwaps
13th Aug 2016
 Added some images of the turquoise/cyan sleeve for comparison. Thinking the sepia tone on the back would be a mix of M & Y colour plates, then replacing the cyan colour on the front with orange they would presumably be cutting the costs of printing.
EDIT:
It occurred to me that I can do some analysis myself using photoshop, so loading up my pictures I sampled the turquoise colour and checked the CMYK settings which showed C=67%, M=0%, Y=27%, K=0%, Then I grabbed carryonsidney's cover and sampled the orange which showed C=7%, M=63%, Y=91%, K=1%. Assuming that there are some errors with the colour reproduction on camera shots then I think the results are quite conclusive. However on the back sleeve taking a colour sample from Mr Plant's shoulder gave somewhat less conclusive results; settings on my picture give C=25%, M=72%, Y=88%, K=14%, carryonsidney's cover C=19%, M=63%, Y=64%, K=4%, I was rather hoping to see Cyan drop to near zero.
I think more tests are needed with better source material.
 

 
Magic Marmalade
20th Jul 2016
 Is the sleeve for this one piece of folded, printed card?

I ask because if you are right deepinder, then the absence of those colours would be apparent on the coloured back of the sleeve if printed as one long sheet, then folded and glued.

...Surely the "sepia" or orangey tone on the back would also appear turquoise?
 

 
deepinder cheema
21st Nov 2015
 Led Zeppelin was released in Jan 1969 in the USA. The sleeve was printed offset litho with I assume all 4 plates CMYK so we get the red/orange lettering. The UK sleeve was printed by MacNeil press and Led Zeppelin was released in March 1969 in the UK. I can only assume that the printers mistakenly used the Cyan and Black ( K ) plate only - which as soon as it was spotted the presses where set up with magenta and yellow plates to make good the intention of the sleeve designer or Jimmy Page. The fact that the US issue is correct and has always been suggests to me that the 'Turquoise' lettering is simply a mistake of the Cyan plate standing alone with K as discrete colours. I have not seen this mentioned in any of the vast literature about Led Zeppelin, so perhaps someone can remark on this theory which I'm endebted to albert for nudging me the hint over on 45cat website. It would be cool if a printer can test the soundness of the theory.
 

 
carryonsidney
14th Sep 2013
 Pictures uploaded from the 2nd press, orange lettering, "Warner bros" publishing credit.
 


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Linked Releases

USA - Atlantic - 1969

Canada - Atlantic - 1969

Germany - Atlantic - 1969

Italy - Atlantic - 1969

Portugal - Atlantic - 1969

Italy - Atlantic - 1971

Germany - Atlantic - 1972

UK - Atlantic - 1972

Spain - Atlantic - 1976

USA - Atlantic - 1977

Czechoslovakia - Supraphon - 1982

Spain - Atlantic - 1982

Europe - Atlantic - 1991

Russia - Antrop - 1991

Japan - Atlantic - 1992

Europe - Atlantic - 2014

France - Atlantic


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