Such incredible detail went into this album cover.
It looks like a simple mish-mash that could be done on Photoshop in 20 minutes. But Photoshop didn't exist back then in 1970 when this album was released. Another fun aspect of this album is that there is a wheel insert behind the front cover. There are holes on the front of the album that reveal pictures of band members on the wheel. The album was designed by Zacron.
I'm a Zeppelin fan since 1998, when I was 20, so I never lived those times but I'm kind of forever fascinated with so many things sixties/seventies... this artwork is one of my Zepp favorites with Physical Graffiti's and In Through The Out Door. Certainly they were amazing works of art... so well thinked and crafted. For me that whole era - around 1965-1975 - vynil and analogic and contracultural times, was rock's golden era, so many great artists and bands... the creativity and innovation was exploding in all kinds of directions with so much quality, and the colective thinking and consciousness of people. I learn a lot from those magical times, so I'm always quite respecful of what happend in those years.
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