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HOUSES OF THE HOLY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 28, 2020…FORTY SEVEN YEARS AGO, THE MIGHTY LED ZEPPELIN RELEASED THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘HOUSES OF THE HOLY.’ THIS WAS A STELLAR ALBUM AND WAS THE FIRST OF THE BAND’S ALBUMS TO BE COMPRISED OF COMPLETELY ORIGINAL MATERIAL.  ZEPPELIN CAME UP WITH THE TITLE AS A DEDICATION TO THEIR FANS WHO APPEARED AT VENUES THEY DUBBED AS “HOUSES OF THE HOLY.”  THE GROUP BENEFITED FROM ROBERT PLANT AND JOHN PAUL JONES BOTH BUILDING RECORDING HOME STUDIOS. THE RECORD SPAWNED ZEPPELIN CLASSICS LIKE ‘OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY’ THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME’ ‘THE OCEAN’  ‘ D’YER MAKER’ ‘THE RAIN SONG’ ‘NO QUARTER’. AS A MATTER OF FACT, ZEPPELIN HAD SO MUCH MUSIC FOR THIS ALBUM, THE ALBUM’S TITLE TRACK ‘HOUSES OF THE HOLY’ WAS LEFT OFF THE RECORD AND SAVED FOR THE ALBUM ‘PHYSICAL GRAFFITI.’ ‘HOUSES OF THE HOLY’ HAS SOLD OVER 12 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE AND ‘ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE’ HAS IT PLACED IT ON THEIR LIST OF “THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME”

HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM ‘OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY’