Who’s that bearded man on the duvet of Led Zeppelin IV, the one hunched over, carrying a big bundle of sticks? Brian Edwards, a researcher from the College of the West of England, has solved the 52-year-old thriller. Wanting by a photograph album whereas conducting analysis, Edwards noticed {a photograph} and, being a Led Zeppelin fan, “immediately recognised the person with the sticks.” “It was fairly a revelation, he instructed the BBC.” From there, he found out who took the {photograph} in 1892 (Ernest Howard Farmer), and ultimately recognized the determine within the picture itself: Lot Lengthy, a thatcher from Mere, a city in Wiltshire, England. You’ll be able to see him above.
Many years later, Robert Plant apparently discovered a colorized model of the {photograph} in an vintage store. On the 1971 album cowl, we see the picture became a framed portray and layered onto the wall of a colorless dwelling. The remainder, as they are saying, is rock ‘n’ roll historical past…
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