Paperback edition containing full tablature of this album. Cover is in very good condition consistent with age. All internal pages are clean bright and unmarked. Presence is the seventh studio album, released by Swan Song Records on 31 March 1976. The cover, inside sleeve and back of the album feature various images of people with a black obelisk-shaped object. Inside the album sleeve the item is referred to simply as "The Object" aka "The Obelisk". It was intended to represent the "force and presence" of Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page explained: "There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said 'When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it 'Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on [the film] 2001 A Space Odyssey. I think it's quite amusing." Jimmy Page made the decision to recor