5 things you didn't know about Physical Graffiti

A return to Led Zeppelin's sixth LP

Tom Porter, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:09 pm UTC

Physical Graffiti

4. The apartment block on the cover was used by The Rolling Stones for 1981's Waiting On A Friend video

Physical Graffiti's artwork was designed by Peter Corriston, and features a photograph of 96 and 98 St Mark's Place in Manhattan. The same designer was responsible for the Grammy Award-winning cover art of The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You. This album contains Waiting On A Friend, the video for which is shot on the doorsteps of none other than 96 and 98 St Mark's Place.

Coincidence? Probably not. Although perhaps The Stones chose it for its abundance of female passers-by, making these lyrics far more believable…

"Watching girls go passing by
It ain't the latest thing
I'm just standing in a doorway"

5. It still looks the same

Point four takes us flawlessly to point five: those apartment blocks still look the same. 33 years later, World Of Wonder returned to the scene to photograph the doorway…