This week marks the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's double studio album Physical Graffiti.
And as you may know... per Village Preservation:
Led Zeppelin immortalized the twin tenements at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place between First Avenue and Avenue A on the Physical Graffiti album cover. The award-winning design featured the two buildings (with the fourth floors removed to make them fit the square shape of the album cover) with the windows cut out to reveal the letters of the album title printed on the inner sleeve, or, if the sleeve was reversed, a series of images of different characters seeming to occupy the building, including lead-singer Robert Plant in drag.
The building's rock history also includes the stoop at No. 96 ... where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met up at the start of the 1981 video by the Rolling Stones for "Waiting on a Friend." (And more recently by The Hard Quartet!)
The building also houses the basement tea shop Physical GraffiTea. Owner Ilana Malka previously ran the vintage clothing boutique Physical Graffiti here until January 2011.
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