The original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag (reminiscent of similarly packaged bootleg album sleeves with the title rubber stamped on it), and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with water, would become permanently fully coloured. There were also six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos (one on each side), and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. (There is actually a code on the spine of the album jacket which indicated which sleeve it was—this could sometimes be seen while the record was still sealed.) The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. The bar is the Absinthe Bar, located at 400 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The walls are covered with thousands of yellowed business cards and dollar bills. It was re-created in a London studio for the album sleeve design. The album artwork was designed by Hipgnosis. Storm Thorgerson recalls the design in his book Eye of the Storm: Show table Show table In 1980, Hipgnosis were nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package for In Through the Out Door. Release and critical reaction Show table The album was intended to be released before the bands twin concerts at Knebworth in 1979, but production delays meant that it was released shortly after their performances at this event. Plant jokingly referred to the delays at times during the performance on 4 August. Despite receiving poor reviews, the album went to No. 1 on Billboards chart in its second week on the chart. On this albums release, Led Zeppelins entire catalogue made the Billboard 200 between the weeks of 23 October and 3 November 1979, an unprecedented feat. The album remained on the US top spot for seven weeks and sold three million copies by the end of September 1979. It is also the Led Zeppelin album that has been most weeks on the top of the charts (tied along with Led Zeppelin II). To date, the album has sold six million copies in the US. Heres a deep cut from the album In Through The Out Door, Carouselambra.....Enjoy!
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