Postal Stamp for Led Zeppelin ? ?

[The Rover]

The Beatles have already been honored with a USPS Postage stamp collection. So have Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison.

I'd like to see a USPS Led Zeppelin collection.

Here's a few photo suggustions for the creation of the postage stamps:

Robert:

Jimmy:

Bonzo:

JPJones:

Page & Plant:

Band photos:

[kingzoso]

I would Love to see an "Official" Led Zeppelin United States Postage Stamp be made available by the United States Postal Service. If there ever was an English band so worthy of such an accolade, it is Led Zeppelin.

As much as I Love American born Artists and Musicians, Jim, Jimi and Janis were great for their time (over 45 years ago) but these three ended up being junkie musicians who died because of their habits. All three within months of each other.

Of course there is solid proof and documentation of John, Paul and George being busted for drugs in the 60's and 70's.

If all these Great Musicians have real and legal American Stamps to pass mail about, then I am an adamant purveyor that Led Zeppelin should also be accorded such USPS status.

[ScarletMacaw]

I would Love to see an "Official" Led Zeppelin United States Postage Stamp be made available by the United States Postal Service. If there ever was an English band so worthy of such an accolade, it is Led Zeppelin.

As much as I Love American born Artists and Musicians, Jim, Jimi and Janis were great for their time (over 45 years ago) but these three ended up being junkie musicians who died because of their habits. All three within months of each other.

Of course there is solid proof and documentation of John, Paul and George being busted for drugs in the 60's and 70's.

If all these Great Musicians have real and legal American Stamps to pass mail about, then I am an adamant purveyor that Led Zeppelin should also be accorded such USPS status.

Please cite your source for Jimi Hendrix being a "junkie."

[ZoSo925]

LOL, Hendrix had a sterling reputation and clean as a whistle. He was a friggin Junkie

[IpMan]

LOL, Hendrix had a sterling reputation and clean as a whistle. He was a friggin Junkie

That is not quite correct, he was a drug user as most musicians (and people in general) were in the late 60's but he was never considered a heavy user by the standards of the day. Then there is the issue of how Hendrix died, the jury is still very much out on that to this day. If he died by inhaling vomit after overdosing on sleeping pills then why was there around two gallons of wine in his stomach when the paramedics came on scene? Why was he bruised about the face and body as if he had just been in a fight?

Jimmy & Janis were very much junkies, but Hendrix, I don't think so.

Zeppelin needs a stamp, in fact they should have a 1st class airmail stamp with the Zeppelin in flames emblazoned on it!

[dazedjeffy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6941860/Royal-Mails-classic-album-covers-special-stamps-go-on-sale.html

[The Rover]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6941860/Royal-Mails-classic-album-covers-special-stamps-go-on-sale.html

And, from the Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/royal-mail-unveil-classic-album-cover-stamps-1860738.html

Led Zeppelin guitar legend, Jimmy Page, today launched the Royal Mail’s much awaited New Year stamp collection featuring ten of the most iconic album covers of the last 40 years.

The cover of Led Zeppelin’s 32 million-selling album, IV, which Page helped create, is one of ten celebrated designs featured in the ‘Classic Album Covers’ collection. Each depicts a famous album cover with a disc coming out of the sleeve and appearing ‘outside’ the stamp.

Other memorable covers which have been immortalised in the range include the racing greyhounds of Blur’s Parklife, the astonishing statues of Pink Floyd’s Division Bell and the bent chromed pipe which graces the cover of Mike Oldfield’s seminal 70s album, Tubular Bells.

Celebrating the work of the album sleeve rather than of the music itself, the new stamp collection features the photography of Pennie Smith (The Clash’s London Calling), a cake baked by the then unknown Delia Smith (Rolling Stones’ Let it bleed) and a painting of an anonymous faggot-bearing man which is said to have been found by Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant in a Reading junk shop (IV). Despite massive sales of the album worldwide, nobody knows the name of the man in the painting, nor the artist who painted him.

Led Zeppelin/’IV’ (1971)

The band’s fourth album had no mention of their name on the cover. The painting of the faggot-bearing old man was, it is said, found by singer Robert Plant in a Reading junk shop. For the cover it was nailed to a demolished house in Dudley.

[mikey]

Canada Post, are you listening?

[Sathington Willoughby]

I would Love to see an "Official" Led Zeppelin United States Postage Stamp be made available by the United States Postal Service. If there ever was an English band so worthy of such an accolade, it is Led Zeppelin.

As much as I Love American born Artists and Musicians, Jim, Jimi and Janis were great for their time (over 45 years ago) but these three ended up being junkie musicians who died because of their habits. All three within months of each other.

Of course there is solid proof and documentation of John, Paul and George being busted for drugs in the 60's and 70's.

If all these Great Musicians have real and legal American Stamps to pass mail about, then I am an adamant purveyor that Led Zeppelin should also be accorded such USPS status.

Umm... John Bonham? and Jimmy had few habits too, no?

[jsj]

If he died by inhaling vomit after overdosing on sleeping pills then why was there around two gallons of wine in his stomach when the paramedics came on scene?

That seems highly unlikely. Two gallons is sixteen pints.