4. Which rock band released their multi-diamond-certified fourth album in 1971?
From Quiz Best Rock and Roll Fourth Albums
Answer:
Led Zeppelin
"Led Zeppelin IV" has been certified 23 times platinum in the United States and has sold 37 million copies worldwide, making it one of the highest-selling rock albums of all-time.
The most notable song on the album, of course, is "Stairway to Heaven." Despite never being released as a single, it has gone on to become arguably the most popular rock song of all-time. It has been played on radio stations around the world over three million times. Its sheet music is the highest-selling piece of sheet music of all-time at over one million copies sold. "Guitar World" magazine ranked Jimmy Page's solo in this song as the best guitar solo of all-time.
Another famous song on the album is "Black Dog," which charted at number 15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and it also charted in eight other countries. Several publications such as "Rolling Stone," "Classic Rock," and "Q" have ranked this song on their lists of greatest rock song of all-time. The song isn't about a black dog; the title comes from an animal that they saw wandering around the studio where they recorded this album.
Another notable song is "Rock and Roll," which charted at number 47 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and it also charted in five other countries. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ranked it as one of their 500 songs that shaped rock and roll and Radio Caroline, VH1, and Q have also ranked it as one of the greatest rock songs of all time.
Another notable song is "When the Levee Breaks," the album's closer. This is a cover of a song written by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929 about the Great Mississippi flood of 1927. Led Zeppelin used many of the original lyrics but they almost completely remade the music. Guitarist Jimmy Page and Bassist John Paul Jones based their parts on the original song, but they changed the song's original three-chord structure to a one-chord structure to give it a droning sound. Singer Robert Plant sang the same lyrics but he added a harmonica and a reverse echo. As a result, the song has become a favorite among Led Zeppelin fans.