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Posted on 05/30/2024 5:34:55 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
A researcher in England has uncovered a copy of the original photograph featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV —and revealed the identity of its subject.
... more than 50 years after the album’s release, Brian Edwards, a historian at the University of the West of England, discovered an original copy of the image while perusing auction house news releases on the internet, according to the Guardian’s Nadia Khomami.
Edwards is also a big Led Zeppelin fan, so when he came across a Victorian photo album that included the image of the stick man, he instantly recognized it.
The museum has also identified the mysterious stick man in the image: His name was Lot Long, and he was a 69-year-old roof thatcher born in the town of Mere, Wiltshire, in 1823. At the time of the photograph, he was a widower who lived in a small cottage.
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Jeeze, I don’t know how I ever slept at night not knowing.
I figured it was some famous painting called “Man with Faggots”
If he was smoking a cigarette he would be a man with faggots and a fag.
And the Lee Marvin friends on the Wings album? Proof that Paul is dead.
“Don’t just stand there, light the faggots”
- Vincent Price
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLWS_CjI1M
Led Zeppelin were thoroughly familiar with the English folk tradition, and listened to performers like Martin Carthy and Fairport Convention. Similar images appear on the cover of Liege and Lief.
Jimmy Page was close with Roy Harper (hence ‘Hats Off To Roy Harper’) and played on a few of Harper’s albums.
I had a friend that hitchhiked and walked through parts of remote France in the 40s or early 50s and he sometimes had traded for meals with the faggots he would collect.
Well one is pretty cute... The other? Not so much.
Yeah, but what about Jethro Tull?
My fave LZ album. 1970s were horrible, but music was great!
Important? Get a life!
i’m busy listening to my bruno mars CD. who is led zeppelin, anyone remind me?
/s /s /s
I thought it would be about the cover Led Zeppelin II and who are the guys in the photo. If there was one guy, they couldn’t discern the identity of.
It was a painting.
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