Man on Led Zeppelin IV Cover Identified 52 Years After Album’s Release

pitchfork.com ^ | November 8, 2023 | By Madison Bloom

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cool photo. Thanks.

What a way to make a living.

[Palio di Siena]

You forgot his cousin - So

[PGR88]

Couldn’t they have just asked the designer of the album cover where he got his material from?

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Who is John Galt?

[Larry Lucido]

Well, at least we’ve know who the waitress is on Supertramp Breakfast in America. No lost sleep over that.

[nickcarraway]

Who did they steal it from?

[Larry Lucido]

Red Bull gives you wings.

[left that other site]

I did a little research. The painting is called “Evening: The Fall of Day” and was painted in 1869 by William Rimmer.

When I was a kid, I imagined it to be Icarus, with his wings melting off.

[SamAdams76]

It was referred to as the Runes album, back in the day.

[libertylover]

The photograph was captured by Ernest Farmer,

I wonder if he got a big fat royalty check?

[left that other site]

I prefer my 12 cups of black coffee every morning. LOL.

[Verginius Rufus]

Remember Lot’s wife.

[Vermont Lt]

One if the first albums I bought. And one if the few I bought in vinyl, cassette, 8 track, CD, and now its on my phone in digital.

Probably one of those albums you would take to the proverbial “desert island.”

[Vermont Lt]

I didn’t know about British copyright laws…but it would have been “in the public domain” in the US.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Well the old man deserves reparations or back pay.

[Paal Gulli]

There are slow news days, and there are sssslllllloooooooowwwwwwwwww news days.

[Beowulf9]

I’ll bet that old tired guy was just peachy keen happy to be slaving away under a heavy burden when some fool tourist took his picture, though. 😆

[PGalt]

LOL

[Osage Orange]

I have that album.

[Disambiguator]

Oh, the humanity.