IF LED ZEPPELIN’S fourth album was the band’s masterpiece, what followed was their unsung classic: Houses of the Holy. In a sense, it was overshadowed by what came before it — IV — and after — 1975’s monolithic Physical Graffiti — but it contained some of the most powerful tracks that Zeppelin ever created: “No Quarter,” “The Rain Song,” “Over the Hills and Far Away,” “The Song Remains the Same.”
Adding to the mystique was the artwork created by Hipgnosis: a surreal image of naked children climbing the rocky terrain of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, beneath a glowing
