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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Black Dog That Helped Inspire Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”
Description: Today in 1971, the release of the fourth Led Zeppelin album. The opening track, "Black Dog," still gets played and shared today, and it got its name from a very unusual visitor to the studio. Plus: in 2023, a researcher came across the original version of the photo on the Zeppelin album's cover, the one with the older man carrying a big bundle of sticks on his back.
Headley Grange Led Zeppelin at Headley Grange (BBC)
Lucky Find at Auction Identifies Man on Cover of ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ (New York Times)
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