LED ZEPPELIN: ZOSO (aka Led Zeppelin IV) IV (4) GATEFOLD original LP

LED ZEPPELIN - ZOSO (aka Led Zeppelin IV)
An original 1971 UK Atlantic label 8-track vinyl LP.

The technical bit :
Catalogue number: K50008
Country of origin: UK
Label: Atlantic

The fourth album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin was released on 8 November 1971. No title is printed on the album, so it is generally referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, following the naming standard used by the band's first three studio albums. Also the album has alternatively been referred to as Four Symbols and The Fourth Album (both titles were used in the Atlantic Records catalogue), Untitled, Runes, Sticks, ZoSo, The Hermit, and simply, IV. Zoso is also the moniker for the band's guitarist, Jimmy Page.
Upon its release, Led Zeppelin IV was a commercial and critical success. The album is one of the best-selling albums in history at 37 million units. It has shipped over 23 million units in the United States alone, putting it third on the all-time list.

Released 8 November 1971
Recorded December 1970 – March 1971 at various locations
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal, folk rock
Length 42:33

Track listing

Side one
1. "Black Dog" Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones 4:57
2. "Rock and Roll" Page, Plant, Jones, John Bonham 3:40
3. "The Battle of Evermore" Page, Plant 5:52
4. "Stairway to Heaven" Page, Plant 8:02

Side two
1. "Misty Mountain Hop" Page, Plant, Jones 4:38
2. "Four Sticks" Page, Plant 4:46
3. "Going to California" Page, Plant 3:31
4. "When the Levee Breaks" Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham, Memphis Minnie 7:07

The 19th century rustic oil painting on the front of the album was purchased from an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire by Robert Plant. The painting was then juxtaposed and affixed to the internal, papered wall of the partly demolished suburban house for the photograph to be taken. The 20th century urban tower block on the back of the full gatefold album cover is Butterfield Court in Eves Hill, Dudley, England.
Page has explained that the cover of the fourth album was intended to bring out a city/country dichotomy that had initially surfaced on Led Zeppelin III:
It represented the change in the balance which was going on. There was the old countryman and the blocks of flats being knocked down. It was just a way of saying that we should look after the earth, not rape and pillage it