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Hmm, the BBC coverage is actually more informative: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67336495 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-6733649
by boulos 3y ago
Hmm, 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.