UPDATE TO BELOW STORY......
The Led Zeppelin documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin, returns to IMAX theaters for a second time starting today.
Earlier this month it had the biggest debut weekend for any IMAX music film, taking in over $3 million.
Following the IMAX screening, it opened in more than 1,000 U.S. theaters on February 14th, landing it in the Top 10 at the box office these last two weekends bringing the total U.S. take to $7.7 million. It's grossed over $9-million worldwide.
Becoming Led Zeppelin tells the story of the band's beginnings through their second album, Led Zeppelin II.
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Today, February 24th, marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin's sixth album, 1975's Physical Graffiti.
Like they did with Led Zeppelin 3, 4 and Houses of the Holy, they did the bulk of the recording at Headley Grange, a remote Victorian home in East Hampshire, England.
Jimmy Page says, "Headley Grange was somewhat run down; the heating didn't work. But it had one major advantage. Other bands had rehearsed there and hadn't had any complaints. That's a major issue, because you don't want to go somewhere and start locking into the work process and then have to pull out...
"The reason we went there in the first place was to have a live-in situation where you're writing and really living the music... It was all of us really concentrating in a concentrated environment..."
And Page adds that it became apparent during the sessions that it would be a double album.
Among the 15 songs on the album are "The Rover," "In My Time of Dying," "Houses of the Holy," "Trampled Under Foot," "Kashmir" and "Boogie With Stu."
And, it was Page who had the idea to name it Physical Graffiti.
Page also had the idea to make the album sleeve interactive, similar to the wheel concept from the cover of Led Zeppelin 3.
Featuring two apartment buildings on St. Mark's Place in New York City, the original album jacket included four covers made up of two inner sleeves for each disc, a middle insert cover and an outer cover. The inner covers depict various objects and people, including photos of Robert Plant and road manager Richard Cole in drag in each window. The outer cover has die-cut windows on the building, so when the middle cover is wrapped around the inner sleeves and slid into the outer cover, the title of the album is shown on the front cover, spelling out the name Physical Graffiti.
The two buildings on the Physical Graffiti cover were also featured in the video for The Rolling Stones' "Waiting on a Friend," which came out in 1981.