Physical Graffiti [SEP] record label
Graffiti" was Led Zeppelin's first release on their own Swan Song Records label, which had been launched in May 1974. Until this point, all of Led Zeppelin's albums had been released on Atlantic Records, who would distribute Swan Song. The album was first announced to the press on 6 November with a planned release date of 29 November and an accompanying US tour (the band's tenth) starting in January. Delays in the production of the album's sleeve design prevented its release prior to the commencement of the
later album "Physical Graffiti" with cut-outs of the windows of a brownstone building. The original issue of "Sticky Fingers" by the Rolling Stones had an actual zipper incorporated into the picture of the crotch area of a pair of jeans. "The Velvet Underground and Nico" album had a Warhol-designed cardboard banana on the cover that could be peeled back. The record company Vertigo had a black-and-white design on the centre label that produced a hypnotic optical effect when the disc revolved on the