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Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (Swan Song)

Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, May 1975

ROCK'S BIGGEST bruisers, Led Zeppelin, have got another album. In rock chronology this is an Event, since the defending champions of the world's biggest rock 'n' roll draw have released only six albums in the past seven years. In fact, we've spent eighteen excruciating months between products, pacifying ourselves with heavy rock's second prizes – Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, and BTO. And these heavy metal hitmen couldn't begin to plug up the leaks Led Zep left when they took on an extended, self-imposed exile to some musicians' netherworld.

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