Physical Graffiti is Led Zeppelin's crowning achievement

The double-set Physical Graffiti is undoubtedly Led Zeppelin's crowning achievement as an album. It now seems laughable that critics at the time didn't think highly about their previous albums, even though the fans loved it and Zeppelin met stardom with their very first album.
The music press soon acknowledged that the band definitely weren't like any of their contemporaries.In fact, they were the best band of the 70s. Here, the group's guitarist Jimmy Page [Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number 3 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes"] talks about the genesis of the album.
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"We could never supply the demand of people that were coming along to see us. The size of venue had changed. They were bigger and there were multiples of those venues. We weren’t the only bands doing larger venues but we were the ones who were doing multiples, so we might do, you know, like five nights in a place as opposed to maybe others might be doing one, maximum two. But we’d do five and they'd al be sold out. And so it was like that. We were coming off the back of tours or touring situations that were really incredible. And the response, and here it was time to make another album which was eagerly anticipated by the record buying public but also certainly by myself and members of the group that eagerly anticipated to see what we would be... what we would be arriving at with all this.
I had a number of pieces of music, some complete, and others sort of riffs. To go in to the recording situation and... and embrace the idea of it. It’s something that I did with all the albums up to that point. I’d always a good four numbers that were really strong enough to be able to put forward that gave us the opportunity to really…or in my mind it gave us the opportunity to then really be able to experiment in all different areas and you could just go OK well then, we’ll do that and that’s really worked out brilliantly. Or if an idea wasn’t working oh well I got this so you could just keep the momentum going and that’s how that worked. It was... it was a return to Hedley Grange and Hedley Grange is where we'd done the fourth album," he says.
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