Accordingly, Presence is narrower in stylistic scope than most of the best Led Zeppelin albums, but it compensates through energy and exhilaration, with the likes of Hots On For Nowhere, the angsty Nobody’s Fault But Mine and the thunderous, ten-minute Achilles Last Stand all ranking among the most ferocious music the band ever committed to tape.
He recorded most of his vocals for Presence while still in a wheelchair, while the band took their collective frustration out by working up some of the most abrasive material of their career. The punks might also have been impressed to learn that Led Zeppelin recorded the Presence album during a rapid, seat-of-the-pants three-week spell, even if that timeline was dictated by the fact the studio they were using (Musicland, in Munich) had been block-booked by another of punk’s collective nemeses, The Rolling Stones.Ĭircumstances largely dictated the way Presence turned out: the group only decided to record the album after abandoning an extensive world tour in support of Physical Graffiti – a necessary move after Robert Plant broke his ankle and elbow in a horrific car crash during a family holiday in Sicily. It’s ironic that Led Zeppelin found themselves fighting off offensives from the likes of Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned, for they released one of their most thrillingly aggressive albums in the same year that UK punk’s first wave was breaking.
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