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LED ZEPPELIN IV (1971)
Key Tracks: “Stairway to Heaven,” “When the Levee Breaks”
Quick Take: Zep’s best-selling album — platinum twenty-three times over — and a masterpiece of passion, craft and range: rock & roll as orgasm, folk music as saga, mysticism as glamour, blues as the apocalypse itself, rhythms any other band would kill for as filler. If “Stairway” is a cliché, it’s only because it’s amazing enough that it’s been played threadbare.
