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Deepa's avatar

Haha, loved your thought’s seamlessly climbing up and down from Zeppelin’s stairway to double-trouble words and finally resting on positive thoughts/ wishes for coming year!

But what I didn’t get...is the beautiful painting of old guy buckled under a haystack...what does it say...I am puzzled.

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Rajesh Achanta's avatar

Thanks Deepa - this is the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV that includes the 'Stairway to Heaven'. The album’s cover artwork gave no indication of the band name or title. The framed image of the stooped man, which has often been referred to as a painting, was juxtaposed and affixed to the internal, papered wall of a partly demolished suburban house. But the origin of the image, which forms the centrepiece of the eye-catching front cover of Led Zeppelin IV, has remained a mystery for more than half a century.

About 2 months ago, this mystery was finally solved - it is a late-Victorian B&W photograph of a Wiltshire thatcher, a widower. Sometimes mysteries take a long time...

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