"Presence" is the seventh studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on 31 March 1976.
It was written and recorded during a tumultuous time in the band's history, as singer Robert Plant was recuperating from serious injuries he had sustained in a recent car accident.
"Presence" scales back the size of "Physical Graffiti" to a single album, but it retains the grandiose scope of that double record. If anything, "Presence" has more majestic epics than its predecessor, opening with the surging, ten-minute "Achilles Last Stand" and closing with the meandering, nearly ten-minute "Tea for One." In between, Led Zeppelin add the lumbering blues workout "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and the terse, menacing "For Your Life," which is the best song on the album. These four tracks take up the bulk of the album, leaving three lighthearted throwaways to alleviate the foreboding atmosphere and pretensions of the epics.
Track listing
1. Achilles Last Stand (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) - 10:25
2. For Your Life (Page, Plant) - 6:24
3. Royal Orleans
4. Nobody's Fault but Mine (Page, Plant) - 6:16
5. Candy Store Rock (Page, Plant) - 4:11
6. Hots On for Nowhere (Page, Plant) - 4:43
7. Tea for One (Page, Plant) - 9:27
Released: 31 March 1976
Recorded at: Musicland Studios, Munich , Germany
Genre: Hard Rock
Length: 44:25
Label: Swan Song
Producer: Jimmy Page
Personnel
John Bonham - drums, percussion
John Paul Jones - four and eight-string bass guitars
Jimmy Page - electric and acoustic guitars, production
Robert Plant - lead vocals, harmonica
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