Led Zeppelin, sometimes referred to as Led Zeppelin I, is the debut studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records.
This album was recorded in September and October 1968, shortly after the band was formed and, because the sessions took place before the group had secured a recording contract with a label, they were paid for directly by Jimmy Page, the group's founder, leader and guitarist, and Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant. The entire album was recorded and mixed in only 36 hours (over the span of a few weeks) and the reason for that, according to Page was that the material selected for the album had been well-rehearsed and pre-arranged by the band on the Scandinavian tour.
Led Zeppelin was an immediate commercial success, reaching the top 10 on album charts in the UK, US and many other countries. The album was remastered and reissued in June 2014. The reissue comes in six formats: a standard CD edition, a deluxe two-CD edition, a standard LP version, a deluxe three-LP version, a super deluxe two-CD-plus-three-LP version with a hardback book, and as high-resolution, 24-bit/96k digital downloads.