Yet, that same year the band faced adversity that threatened to derail their career. On Aug. 5, 1975, frontman Robert Plant and his wife were seriously injured in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece, which forced the band to scrap the second leg of the tour in support of Physical Graffiti. The singer traveled to Malibu, Calif. to recover and later the other members of the band—guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham--planned to join him at S.I.R. Studios in Hollywood to begin working on new material.
“It was just after Robert’s car accident,” Jones said in an interview for The Billboard Book of Number One Albums. “It was really very hard to get the group working. We were in Los Angeles, and nobody seemed to want to turn up for rehearsals and for writing sessions.”
With the L.A. sessions scrapped, the band opted to head to Germany where they regrouped at Musicland Studios in Munich to record their seventh album, known as Presence. “There’s some good stuff on the album, but it was hard going,” Jones added.
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Some tracks, such as “For Your Life,” were written in the studio. “Royal Orleans,” named for a French Quarter hotel in New Orleans, was the only song credited to all four members of the band on the album, a departure from the past. Plant and Page shared writing credits on the album’s other six tracks.
Despite the adversity, the mighty Led Zeppelin couldn’t be stopped. Presence reached the top of the album chart the week of May 1, 1976, in its second week on the chart, giving the band its fifth No. 1 album.
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