Physical Graffiti, the sixth studio album by Led Zeppelin, was released as a double album on February 24, 1975. Its 15th and last track, the song “Sick Again,” written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, tells about underage teenage groupies, in particular the so-called “L.A. Queens,” with whom the band got acquainted on their North American Tours of 1972 and 1973.

One of these young groupies in the early 1970s Los Angeles scene was Lori Mattix (born November 29, 1958), also known as Lori Maddox, a friend of Sable Starr, the “Queen of the Groupies.” She entered into a relationship with Jimmy Page in 1972, and broke it two years later after seeing Page in bed with another groupie.

Here is a video of the 1993 remaster version of the song, from the band’s official YouTube channel

I give below the lyrics from Genius, where explanations are given to the meaning of several lines. The singer feels empathy for the young teenagers who become infatuated with rock stars, with their hearts full of dreams, only to meet disappointment and pain later on:

Sick Again
by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

From the window of your rented limousine
I caught your pretty blue eyes
One day soon you’re gonna reach sixteen
Painted lady in the city of lies

Oh, do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I’m the one you want, babe
I must be the one you need, yeah

Clutching pages from your teenage dream
In the lobby of the Hotel Paradise
Through the circus of the L.A. queens
How fast you learn the downhill slide

Oh, how you like my face?
Still don’t know your name
You know I’m the one you want, babe, ooh yes
I must be the one you need, need, need, need, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, you got me feeling…

Just a bit, just a bit

Lips like cherries and the brow of a queen
Come on, flash it, flash it in my eyes
Said you dug me since you were thirteen
Then you giggle as you heave and sigh

Oh, do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
Baby, I gotta tell you, I’m the one you want
And everybody know I’m the one you need, yeah

Oh, give it to me, come on now
Come on now
Come on now

Hours, hours, and the moments in between
Oh, baby, I couldn’t count the times
The fun of coming, oh, the pain in leaving
Baby, dry those silver eyes

Oh, do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I’m the one you want, ooh yes
I’m the one you need, yeah

Ooh, that’s right
Ooh, yeah, that’s right
Ooh, that’s right
That’s right
That’s right
Ooh yeah, that’s right
That’s right
Aahh, aahh, aahh, aahh, aahh