Houses of the Holy

Houses Of The Holy, one of LZ’s most epic albums, is a showcase of folk and softcore classic metal mastery. The album, although met with mixed reviews, was confirmed triple platinum in 1989.

Jimmy Page later confirmed after Houses of the Holy’s release it was recorded directly from Mick Jagger’s home:

Beginning with their third release in 1970, Led Zeppelin sought to escape the drab confines of traditional recording studios by spending a portion of their album sessions holed up at an intimate rural estate. It was an idea borrowed from the Band, who had a communal home near Bob Dylan’s upstate retreat in Woodstock, New York. “I didn’t know exactly how the Band had recorded their Music from Big Pink album or The Basement Tapes, but the rumor was they were done in a house they had rented,” Page explained in Guitar World. “I didn’t know for sure if they had, but I liked the idea. I thought it was definitely worth a shot to actually go someplace and really live it, rather than visiting a studio and going home. I wanted to see what would happen if all we did was have this one thing in sight – making music and just really living the experience of it.”