Studio Album · No. 5
Houses of the Holy Songwriting Credits by Led Zeppelin
Produced by Jimmy Page · Engineered by Eddie Kramer, George Chkiantz, Keith Harwood
Holds writing credit on 8 of 8 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 8 / 8 documented
Scored across the 8 tracks with documented writers, by whether Led Zeppelin carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 8 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 1
By 1973 all four members of Led Zeppelin were contributing to the writing, and Houses of the Holy is almost entirely original material rather than the blues adaptations that drew authorship disputes on the band's earlier records. 'No Quarter' is credited to John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant, with Jones's keyboards driving the track and giving him unusual prominence in the credit line. 'D'yer Mak'er' is a reggae and doo-wop pastiche credited to all four members, including John Bonham, whose drumming sets its loose backbeat. The credits here are genuinely the band's own work, so the album carries fewer of the attribution questions that shadowed songs on Led Zeppelin I and II.
Houses of the Holy is the 1973 fifth studio album by Led Zeppelin and moved the band's hard rock toward cleaner, more expansive and art rock arrangements. Recorded between December 1971 and August 1972 at studios including the Rolling Stones Mobile at Stargroves and Headley Grange, Island Studios, Olympic Studios, and Electric Lady Studios in New York, it was produced by Jimmy Page and engineered by Eddie Kramer. Robert Plant sang lead while Page played guitar, John Paul Jones added keyboards, Mellotron, and synthesizers, and John Bonham played drums, on songs such as "The Song Remains the Same", "The Rain Song", and "No Quarter". The album reached number 1 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart and was later certified 11 times platinum in the United States. Its Hipgnosis cover art became one of the most recognizable images in rock.