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A Researcher Identifies the Old Man on the Iconic Cover of Led Zeppelin IV, 52 Years After the Album’s Release

A Researcher Identifies the Old Man on the Iconic Cover of Led Zeppelin IV, 52 Years After the Album’s Release

[html]Who’s that bearded man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, the one hunched over, carrying a large bundle of sticks? Brian Edwards, a researcher from the University of the West of England, has solved the 52-year-old mystery. Looking through a photo album while conducting research, Edwards spotted a photograph and, being a Led Zeppelin […]
                              


Who’s that bearded man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, the one hunched over, carrying a large bundle of sticks? Brian Edwards, a researcher from the University of the West of England, has solved the 52-year-old mystery. Looking through a photo album while conducting research, Edwards spotted a photograph and, being a Led Zeppelin fan, “instantly recognised the man with the sticks.” “It was quite a revelation, he told the BBC.” From there, he figured out who took the photograph in 1892 (Ernest Howard Farmer), and eventually identified the figure in the photo itself: Lot Long, a thatcher from Mere, a town in Wiltshire, England. You can see him above.


Decades later, Robert Plant apparently found a colorized version of the photograph in an antique shop. On the 1971 album cover, we see the photo turned into a framed painting and layered onto the wall of a drab home. The rest, as they say, is rock ‘n’ roll history…


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