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Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered
- boulos 3y agoHmm, the BBC coverage is actually more informative: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67336495 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67336495 but I can't edit the submission URL.
- dang 3y agoOk, changed from https://www.loudersound.com/news/an-original-photograph-of-the-mysterious-figure-on-the-cover-of-led-zeppelin-iv-has-been-found-in-an-old-photo-album-and-hes-been-identified https://www.loudersound.com/news/an-original-photograph-of-t.... Thanks!
- drcongo 3y agoIt is better, but what on earth went through the head of the picture editor to not include a picture of the album cover?
- boulos 3y agoTouché! I didn't even notice :).
- thx 3y agoprobably “copyright” + advertising. thanks to OP for sharing !!
- khazhoux 3y agoThey did include the album cover! ;-)
- boulos 3y agohttps://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=wiltshire-thatcher-a-photographic-journey-through-victorian-wessex https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=wiltshire-tha... which is the exhibition seems to have it, too.
- jzl 3y ago#TIL that this is the full photo on the cover of IV. Mind blown. I guess it would have been back + front of the LP? https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Led-Zep-IV.jpg https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...
- cratermoon 3y agoYup. LP covers we a genre of art for a time. Famously, the original vinyl issue of the Rolling Stones 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" included an Andy Warhol design of a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zip that opened to reveal underwear fabric.
- mikestew 3y agoAnd in the Led Zeppelin category, we have III with the spinning wheel that would reveal various pictures through holes in the album cover, and Physical Graffiti where the windows on the building would open to reveal stuff. And finally, In Through the Out Door where you could wipe the inside cover with a wet cloth to reveal the color. Many albums used the large area for some kind of physical interaction. Sadly we lost that starting with cassettes.
- Ginger-Pickles 3y agoThat’s astonishing. It makes me sad when computers represent things with lossy abstractions, like “album art is a square image,” and those abstractions end up widely supplanting the essential idea of what the thing is.
- colejohnson66 3y agoApple Music has support for animated album art, which is a nice middle ground. If everything is digital, why not take advantage of digital features?
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- kazinator 3y agoScared of copyright, ironically? At least link to the Wikipedia page about the album, which is brave enough to show the album cover.
- tromp 3y agoAnd ... it's been added to the album's Wikipedia entry [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV
- glompers 3y agoAlso to Mere, Wiltshire's Wiki (English) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere,_Wiltshire#Notable_people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere,_Wiltshire#Notable_peop...
- maw 3y agoThat's a lot more than four sticks.
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- ishtanbul 3y agodisappointing that they don't explain how Led Zeppelin came across the image
- Lammy 3y ago> Robert Plant is said to have found a colourised version of the Victorian photo in an antiques shop
- pan69 3y ago"The late 19th-century picture of an old man carrying a bundle of sticks on his back on the front of the album was bought in an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire by Plant.[5][42] The picture was then juxtaposed and affixed to the internal, papered wall of a partly demolished suburban house for the photograph to be taken." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV#Cover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV#Cover
- xxr 3y agoThe classic rock version of finding Jane Doe [0] Perhaps one day we'll finally find out who's on the back of Abbey Road? [1] [0] https://www.kerrang.com/model-from-converges-jane-doe-cover-reveals-herself-after-20-years-jacob-bannon-responds https://www.kerrang.com/model-from-converges-jane-doe-cover-... [1] https://sfae.com/Artists/Iain-Macmillan/Abbey-Road-Album-Back-Cover-London-1969 https://sfae.com/Artists/Iain-Macmillan/Abbey-Road-Album-Bac...
- Freak_NL 3y agoOr those four weirdos on the zebra crossing on the front. Who were they?
- jihadjihad 3y ago52 years ago to the day, too. IV was released November 8, 1971.
- winternett 3y agoCrazy to see that they sold 37 Million albums way back then... It's the absolute hardest thing to get 40 views on music videos posted to a free social media site now, despite the entire Internet supposedly being "open to the entire world".
- klysm 3y agoopen and absolutely flooded with garbage
- toyg 3y agoIt's a bit like with cabbage: when it was the only thing people could get, cabbage was extremely popular. Nowadays you can buy any vegetable or fruit, grown anywhere at any time, so it's hard to get people interested in cabbage.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoI don’t know, just reading this comment got me thinking I could really go for some cabbage.
- globular-toast 3y agoI like the analogy, but this kind of suggests there were other Led Zeppelins and the one we know is just the one that happened to be marketed. I find that hard to believe. I think it's more like the cabbages are still there, but now you have to sift through a ton of wild varieties of bitter and tough brassicas yourself.
- toyg 3y agoI would argue that any musician active at the time will know someone who was as good as Led Zeppelin, but never made it because they couldn't get a label contract at the right time. This is particularly true if you include black artists. It's not just marketing - production costs were very high. There is an element of cargo-cultism in the boomer experience, as a result of scarcity and strict gatekeeping that lasted pretty much all the way to the early 2000s.
- smitty1e 3y agoDoug Helvering offers a review of the original, LZ and a cover version of the closing track => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBHGgVF_SA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBHGgVF_SA
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y agoI have never quite got this band. Everybody says that they are the fathers of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock and this album especially should represent all that, but they are very light celtic tunes to my ear, and especially their most successful single Stairway to Heaven. Black Sabbath are the fathers of heavy metal and hard rock, I think they must have had a bad promoter (compared to LedZep) and the fact that they'd play just 1h compared to Zeppelin 4h marathons also made them less relevant in the grapevine
- IanHalbwachs 3y agoI don't care who or what they are the fathers of, I just find that their music resonates with me in a very special way no other band's does. It has tension and & release on many scales and dimensions at once.
- ssklash 3y agoLight and shade, as Jimmy Page called it, and very intentionally cultivated in their music.
- dekhn 3y agoLed Zeppelin is not heavy metal or hard rock, they were just a rock band that did a few nice folk tunes.
- jahewson 3y agoI recommend listening to Immigrant Song.
- ssklash 3y agoThey have a handful of Celtic-inspired songs, and tons of blues and blues-rock based ones. If you listen to them only expecting to hear the origins of metal, you're going to be disappointed. If you have an understanding of how heavy music was at the time, then you'll understand why they were considered so heavy.
- globular-toast 3y agoBlack Sabbath seem pretty well-regarded, especially to those into that type of music. I mean, Ozzy Osbourne is a household name which you can't say about any members of Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin are just different. They are just on the right side of musical for me. I really can't stand dissonance or noise in music. I also greatly appreciate dynamic range which they have an abundance.
- tired_and_awake 3y agoI grew up addicted to IV but since I discovered how much of their music is basically stolen (more so than most artists), I simply cannot listen to them. The originals are great though!
- chasebank 3y agoYou mean covered / adapted? You're right. Doesn't mean it's any less awesome. Most artists don't write their own music or lyrics.
- Synaesthesia 3y agoEver watch a documentary called “Everything is a remix”? It might change your mind on the subject and let you enjoy the originals and the adaptations too.
- mackrevinack 3y agousually the polite way of going about it is to credit the original artist in some way but it seems zeppelin didn't make any attempt whatsoever. dazed and confused is a good example. its not just copying a chord progression and taking it from there, it was the whole thing, the name, the melody
- wyldfire 3y agoOh-so-barely related: today I found myself listening to "Baba O'Reilly" in the car and I took the opportunity to show my son the cover art for "Who's Next" because it always seemed like it was worth a mischievous boyhood chuckle. ...and then he and I stumbled upon a recent retelling of the circumstances around that photo shoot which was kinda interesting [1]. [1] https://www.loudersound.com/features/album-artwork-the-who-whos-next https://www.loudersound.com/features/album-artwork-the-who-w...