Wednesday, February 26, 2025

50 years gone

EVG reader MP shared this photo of rock-history hotspot 96-98 St. Mark's Place. 

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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2 comments:

  1. yetanothercommenterFebruary 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM

    talk of days for which they sit and wait

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  2. XTCFebruary 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM

    On a more contemporary note looks like Billy Idol filmed some of the scenes for his new vid Still Dancing outside of Vasacs on Ave B along with glomming on to a shot of the Joe Strummer mural on 7th for some punk's not dead street cred.

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