"On the second LP, you can really hear the group identity coming together," Jimmy Page recalled years after its release. While Zeppelin recorded their first album in three weeks after a single, two-week Scandinavian tour, Led Zeppelin II was cut over six months on tour in London, New York, Vancouver and Los Angeles, with the band carrying the master tapes along
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: ‘Led Zeppelin II’: How Band Came Into Its Own on Raunchy 1969 Classic