Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti album was released 45 years ago today (February 24th). The song “Kashmir” was inspired by a trip to Southern Morocco about a place in the Northern Himalayas that no one in the band had ever visited. Robert Plant has said that “Kashmir” is one of his contributions to the Led Zeppelin catalog that he’s most proud of. He tells how it came about.
“‘Kashmir’ was written from my angle. It was written on the road to Tan-Tan in southern Morocco, just off the Atlantic coast. And it’s a place where your mind can really dance and where your imagination is way open. After a while, all the stuff you’ve ever thought about is gone and you got this whole different place that’s giving you a sort of door into a whole different you.”
