[HN Gopher] Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover disc...
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Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered
Author : boulos
Score : 79 points
Date : 2023-11-08 17:11 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| boulos wrote:
| Hmm, the BBC coverage is actually more informative:
| https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67336495 but I
| can't edit the submission URL.
| dang wrote:
| Ok, changed from https://www.loudersound.com/news/an-original-
| photograph-of-t.... Thanks!
| drcongo wrote:
| It is better, but what on earth went through the head of the
| picture editor to not include a picture of the album cover?
| boulos wrote:
| Touche! I didn't even notice :).
| thx wrote:
| probably "copyright" + advertising. thanks to OP for sharing
| !!
| khazhoux wrote:
| They _did_ include the album cover! ;-)
| boulos wrote:
| https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=wiltshire-
| tha... which is the exhibition seems to have it, too.
| jzl wrote:
| #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/2023/1...
| cratermoon wrote:
| Yup. 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 wrote:
| And 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 wrote:
| That'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.
| kazinator wrote:
| Scared of copyright, ironically?
|
| At least link to the Wikipedia page about the album, which is
| brave enough to show the album cover.
| tromp wrote:
| And ... it's been added to the album's Wikipedia entry [1].
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV
| glompers wrote:
| Also to Mere, Wiltshire's Wiki (English)
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere,_Wiltshire#Notable_peop...
| maw wrote:
| That's a lot more than four sticks.
| ishtanbul wrote:
| disappointing that they don't explain how Led Zeppelin came
| across the image
| Lammy wrote:
| > Robert Plant is said to have found a colourised version of
| the Victorian photo in an antiques shop
| pan69 wrote:
| "The late 19th-century picture of an old man carrying a bundle
| of sticks on his back on the front of the album was bought in
| an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire by Plant.[5][42] The
| picture was then juxtaposed and affixed to the internal,
| papered wall of a partly demolished suburban house for the
| photograph to be taken."
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV#Cover
| xxr wrote:
| The classic rock version of finding Jane Doe [0]
|
| Perhaps one day we'll finally find out who's on the back of Abbey
| Road? [1]
|
| [0] https://www.kerrang.com/model-from-converges-jane-doe-
| cover-...
|
| [1] https://sfae.com/Artists/Iain-Macmillan/Abbey-Road-Album-
| Bac...
| jihadjihad wrote:
| 52 years ago to the day, too. IV was released November 8, 1971.
| winternett wrote:
| Crazy to see that they sold 37 Million albums way back then...
| It's the absolute hardest thing to get 40 views on music videos
| posted to a free social media site now, despite the entire
| Internet supposedly being "open to the entire world".
| klysm wrote:
| open and absolutely flooded with garbage
| smitty1e wrote:
| Doug Helvering offers a review of the original, LZ and a cover
| version of the closing track =>
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBHGgVF_SA
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