Additional personnel: Viram Jasani (tablas).

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

All songs written by members of Led Zeppelin except "You Shook Me" and I Can't Quit You Baby" (Willie Dixon).

Rising from the ashes of his old band the Yardbirds, session guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin, one of the most powerful, influential and enduring of the great rock bands to emerge from Great Britain in the '60s. So enduring that to this day practically every song on their debut disc is a staple of FM radio formats. So enduring that to this day their 1969 maiden voyage remains a classic. So enduring that to this day Led Zeppelin remains the standard by which most hard rock/heavy metal bands are judged.

Yet despite the presence of such classic thrashoramas as "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown" (both clocking in at under 3:00), what sets Led Zeppelin apart from their rock offspring is the depth and range of their music. Like their power trio forebearers, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin's music is bathed in the blues, from rootsy covers of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby," to the crunching rhythm changes of "Dazed And Confused." On the latter, many of the band's trademark sonic signatures are already in place, from Robert Plant's howling vocals, John Paul Jones' solid bottom and John Bonham's thunderous backbeat, to Page's churning rhythm, bumblebee leads, cunning multi-tracked stereo panning effects and rich studio sound.

In addition, few bands before or since possessed Page's sense of pacing and dynamics, as exemplified by the traditional acoustic folk elements which frame the big arena gestures on "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," and the raga-flavored acoustic mystery of "B