Led Zeppelin IV was released in 1971 and went on to become one of the best selling albums of all time in the US The man in the cover is believed to be a thatcher called Lot Long, who died in 1893
Led Zeppelin - 'Led Zeppelin IV' (1971) The block of flats that can been seen on the back sleeve of the gatefold to 'Led Zeppelin IV' is Salisbury Tower, a 20-storey tower block on Middleway View in the Ladywood district of Birmingham. Completed in 1968, the tower is 57 metres tall and contains 116 flats.
Led Zeppelin's fourth album is not just considered the most classic Led Zeppelin album. It is one of the defining albums of modern hard rock music. Its quality is unquestionable, its musical peaks untouchable, its legacy immeasurable. It isn't a perfect album song-for-song, but very nearly.
They include Led Zeppelin's "Led Zeppelin IV," pressed on clear 180g vinyl and arriving Oct. 27. Coming a week earlier on Oct. 20 is Coldplay's "A Head Full of Dreams," on what is
Five decades after its release, the man shown on the cover of Led Zeppelin's highly acclaimed fourth studio album has recently been identified by Brian Edwards, a history researcher from the University of West England.. Edwards told BBC that the man in the picture was named Lot Long, a roof thatcher in the mid-to-late 19th century, born in 1823, and was 69 years old at the time.
The cover of Led Zeppelin IV had inspired a reinterpretation of the Ten of Wands, and that the original Ten of Wands was something else entirely. Since the Ten of Wands/Old Man Cover was brought
