Editing Coda (Led Zeppelin album) (section)

==Background==
The fifth [[Swan Song Records]] album for the band, ''Coda'' was released to honour contractual commitments to [[Atlantic Records]] and also to cover tax demands on previous monies earned. It cleared away nearly all of the leftover tracks from the various studio sessions of the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite book|first= Dave |last= Lewis |title= Led Zeppelin: From a Whisper to a Scream; The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin |year= 2012 |publisher= Omnibus Press |page= 96 |isbn= 978-1-78038-547-1}}</ref> The album was a collection of eight tracks spanning the length of Zeppelin's twelve-year history.{{sfn|Lewis|1990|p=61}} Atlantic counted the release as a studio album, as Swan Song had owed the label a final studio album from the band. According to [[Martin Popoff]], "there's conjecture that Jimmy [Page] called 'We're Gonna Groove' a studio track and 'I Can't Quit You Baby' a rehearsal track because Swan Song owed Atlantic one more studio album specifically."<ref name="Popoff">{{cite book |last=Popoff |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Popoff |title=Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs, Expanded Edition |publisher=Voyageur Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-7603-6377-5 |pages=224–25 |chapter=Coda |access-date=6 September 2018 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_dmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA224 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428072807/https://books.google.com/books?id=z_dmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA224 |archive-date=28 April 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Guitarist [[Jimmy Page]] explained that part of the reasoning for the album's release related to the popularity of [[Led Zeppelin bootleg recordings|unofficial Led Zeppelin recordings]], which continued to be circulated by fans: "''Coda'' was released, basically, because there was so much bootleg stuff out. We thought, "Well, if there's that much interest, then we may as well put the rest of our studio stuff out".{{sfn|Priddey|2015|pp=263–64}} As [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]] recalled: "Basically there wasn't a lot of Zeppelin tracks that didn't go out. We used everything."{{sfn|Priddey|2015|p=264}}

The word ''[[Coda (music)|coda]]'', meaning a passage that ends a musical piece following the main body, was therefore chosen as the title.