The Black Dog That Helped Inspire Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

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)

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