Our third Led Zeppelin cover. Interestingly, like our first, this is another die-cut. Depending on what sleeves you stuck in there (it was a double album), you could spell out the title (as shown above) or fill the windows with various American icons – Buzz Aldrin, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Atlas, the main characters from The Wizard of Oz ... In that sense, I guess, it must have been something of an homage to Sgt. Pepper.
The artist was one Peter Corriston.
The photo was a heavily altered pic of two apartment buildings off of St. Mark's Place, 96 and 98 East 8th Street.
Corriston didn’t have to go far for the pic, as he was originally based out of Greenwich Village. The graphic designer did tons of covers, winning a Grammy for the Stones' rather underwhelming Tattoo You. I like these better:
The big question, though, is whether Corriston and the band actually stole the idea from Jose Feliciano.
Thanks for that one, dangerousminds.com.
The album itself was Robert Plant’s favorite, and a number of people consider it to represent the peak of the band’s career. It went #1 in the US and UK, and provided a number of standards for their concerts, including the great “Kashmir.”
Days of big hair: Plant, Jones, Bonham, Page
Not a lotta parodies of this one, but here’s a couple of homages:
And one great parody ...
... and a throw pillow:
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