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The 40 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs of All Time

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'Houses of the Holy' (1975)


Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page Robert Plant Live Performance
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Recorded for the album of the same name, this stomping come-on was shelved for sounding too much like "Dancing Days," and resurrected for Physical Graffiti. Page sprays shrapnel while Plant evokes fertility rites and drugged-out tarot readings. Rick Rubin has called it "one of their most compact-feeling songs."


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