Find out the tracklist, formats, and bonus tracks of the 1971 album Led Zeppelin IV, remastered in 2014. The album features the classic songs Black Dog, Rock And Roll, Stairway To Heaven, and more. Learn how the iconic album cover of Led Zeppelin IV was inspired by an antique painting of an old man with a bundle of sticks and a Tarot card. The cover also represents the band's balance between tradition and innovation, and their quest for the light of truth. Led Zeppelin tried just about every visual trick to make their album covers pop, from die cutting and revisionist history to sci-fi-inspired surrealism and mysterious symbols and objects. One of Led Zeppelin's iconic fourth album was released 52 years ago today (November 8), and its cover art has been the subject of much conjecture in the decades since, with talk of runes, tarot and the occult. One of the greatest mysteries has been the identify of the painted figure on the front cover, a stooped man with a burden of sticks on his back. It's not a painting. It's a picture of a Victorian artisan taken in the English countryside in 1892. 297 Lot Long, who worked as a thatcher in the 1890s. His image became the face of the album Previously believed to be a painting, the cover art for Led Zepellin's IV album is actually a photograph of a Victorian thatcher taken in the English countryside in 1892. zsjGg.

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