Led Zeppelin "How the West Was Won"

How the West Was Won is a live triple album by the English rock group Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on compact disc on 27 May 2003, and DVD-Audio on 7 October 2003. The recordings are taken from two 1972 performances in California during their tour of North America: L.A. Forum (25 June 1972) and Long Beach Arena (27 June 1972).

Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak, as is mentioned in the album's liner notes and in an interview he gave to The Times newspaper in 2010.

For many years, live recordings of these two shows only circulated in the form of bootlegs, and even then only certain audience recordings were available to fans and collectors (for example, Burn Like a Candle). Though several soundboard recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts were circulated amongst fans after having been stolen from Page's personal archive some time in the mid-1980s, no soundboards of the 1972 Long Beach or LA Forum shows were taken, meaning the release of How the West Was Won was the first chance fans had of hearing the soundboard versions of these concerts. The songs from the two shows underwent extensive editing and audio engineering by Page at Sarm West Studios in London before being released on the album.

The album was remastered and reissued on 23 March 2018 in many formats, including 3CD, 4LP, Blu-Ray Audio and a Super Deluxe Edition box set.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart for the week ending 14 June 2003 at number 1, with sales of 154,000 copies. It remained on the chart for 16 weeks. It was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA on 30 June 2003. How the West Was Won received an overall score of 97 by review site Metacritic.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "LA Drone" John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page 27 June, Long Beach Arena 0:14
2. "Immigrant Song" Page, Robert Plant Mixed from both nights 3:42
3. "Heartbreaker" John Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant Mixed from both nights 7:25
4. "Black Dog" Jones, Page, Plant Mixed from both nights 5:41
5. "Over the Hills and Far Away" Page, Plant Mixed from both nights 5:08
6. "Since I've Been Loving You" Jones, Page, Plant 27 June, Long Beach Arena 8:02
7. "Stairway to Heaven" Page, Plant Mixed from both nights; Mellotron from Southampton University, Southampton, England, 22 January 1973 9:38
8. "Going to California" Page, Plant 27 June, Long Beach Arena 5:37
9. "That's the Way" Page, Plant 25 June, LA Forum 5:54
10. "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" Jones, Page, Plant 27 June, Long Beach Arena 4:55

Disc two

1. "Dazed and Confused"
2. "Walter's Walk"
3. "The Crunge" Page (inspired by Jake Holmes) Page, Plant  Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant 25 June, LA Forum 25:25
4. "What Is and What Should Never Be" Page, Plant 27 June, Long Beach Arena 4:41
5. "Dancing Days" Page, Plant Mixed from both nights 3:42
6. "Moby Dick" Bonham, Jones, Page 25 June, LA Forum 19:20

Disc three

1. "Whole Lotta Love"
2. "Boogie Chillun"
3. "Let's Have a Party"
4. "Hello Mary Lou" (omitted from 2018 reissue)
5. "Going Down Slow" Bonham, Willie Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant  Bernie Besman, John Lee Hooker  Jessie Mae Robinson  Cayet Mangiaracina, Gene Pitney  James B. Oden 25 June, LA Forum 23:07
6. "Rock and Roll" Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant 27 June, Long Beach Arena 3:56
7. "The Ocean" Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant 25 June, LA Forum 4:21
8. "Bring It On Home"  Dixon
9. "Bring It On Back" Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant 25 June, LA Forum 9:30

Notes:

The DVD-Audio version of the album has tracks 1–11 on disc one with tracks 12–18 on disc two. It features the whole album in 48 kHz/24bit for both 5.1 and Stereo.

The Blu-Ray Audio version of the albums has all tracks on one disc. It features the whole album in 96kHz/24-bit DTS-Master Audio 5.1, as well as two stereo tracks (PCM and DTS-MA)

The 4 LP version of the album has tracks 1–4 on Side A, tracks 5, 12 & 13 on Side B, track 6 & 7 on Side C, track 8–10 on Side D, tracks 11, 14 & 15 on Sides E, F & G respectively, and tracks 16–18 on Side H

The medley omitting "Hello Mary Lou" has a runtime of 20:59 in the 2018 reissue

Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin Remasters"

Led Zeppelin Remasters is a three-LP (or two-cassette or two-CD) compilation album of digitally remastered material by English rock band Led Zeppelin. Containing songs from eight of the band's nine studio albums, it was initially released in the UK and Japan by Atlantic Records on 15 October 1990. The album is essentially a scaled-down version of the four-CD Led Zeppelin Boxed Set.

This compilation set came about as a result of the initially rushed conversion of Led Zeppelin's album to the compact disc format in the late 1980s. Led Zeppelin were among the first rock bands to be re-issued on CD, but such was the haste to capitalise on the new format that the new CDs were derived not from re-equalised master tapes, but from sound-generation tapes that had been equalised for the original vinyl platters. For this 1990 reissue, Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page himself supervised the mastering process, which was based on Led Zeppelin's archive of master tapes.

Track list:

Disk 1

1. "Communication Breakdown" (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham) – 2:28, (1969)
2. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Page, Robert Plant) – 6:41, (1969)
3. "Good Times, Bad Times" (Page, Jones, Bonham) – 2:43, (1969)
4. "Dazed and Confused" (Page) – 6:26, (1969)
5. "Whole Lotta Love" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 5:34, (1969)
6. "Heartbreaker" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 4:14, (1969)
7. "Ramble On" (Page, Plant) – 4:24, (1969)
8. "Immigrant Song" (Page, Plant) – 2:23, (1970)
9. "Celebration Day" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 3:28, (1970)
10. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 7:24, (1970)
11. "Black Dog" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 4:54, (1971)
12. "Rock and Roll" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 3:40, (1971)
13. "The Battle of Evermore" (Page, Plant) – 5:51, (1971)
14. "Misty Mountain Hop" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 4:39, (1971)
15. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page, Plant) – 8:01, (1971)

Disk 2 

1. "The Song Remains the Same" (Page, Plant) – 5:29, (1973)
2. "The Rain Song" (Page, Plant) – 7:39, (1973)
3. "D'yer Mak'er" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) – 4:23, (1973)
4. "No Quarter" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 7:00, (1973)
5. "Houses of the Holy" (Page, Plant) – 4:03, (1975)
6. "Kashmir" (Page, Plant, Bonham) – 8:32, (1975)
7. "Trampled Under Foot" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 5:35, (1975)
8. "Nobody's Fault but Mine" (Page, Plant) – 6:28, (1976)
9. "Achilles Last Stand" (Page, Plant) – 10:23, (1976)
10. "All My Love" (Plant, Jones) – 5:53, (1979)
11. "In the Evening" (Page, Plant, Jones) – 6:51, (1979)

Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"

Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by their newly founded imprint label Swan Song Records. The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album at Headley Grange, which stretched the total time of the record beyond the typical length of a single LP, so the band decided to make Physical Graffiti a double album by including unreleased tracks from earlier recording sessions: one outtake from Led Zeppelin III, three from Led Zeppelin IV, and three from Houses of the Holy, including the unused title track from the latter album.

Physical Graffiti was commercially and critically successful upon its release and debuted at number one on album charts in both the US and the UK. The album was later certified 16x platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2006, signifying shipments of over eight million copies.

Led Zeppelin "Houses Of The Holy"

Houses of the Holy is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 28 March 1973 by Atlantic Records. It is their first album composed of entirely original material and it represents a turning point in musical direction for the band, who had begun to record songs with more layering and production techniques.

Containing some of the band's most famous songs, including "The Song Remains the Same", "The Rain Song", and "No Quarter", Houses of the Holy became a commercial success, and was later certified 11x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1999. In 2012, the album was ranked at #148 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The title track was originally recorded for the album, but was delayed until the release of band's next album Physical Graffiti in 1975.