thanks Luke...no the post isn't a joke./ I think I've gotten the correct info.....the piece I am looking for is the back cover of your top row (middle) cover. (technically the "a' cover) It looks to me like all the front covers have the color swatch and the back covers don't. (basing this on the three I have at home) These covers have evolved for me in a very interesting way....when I was 16 and well...on LSD (hangs head in shame....well, slight shame) I was just blown away by all the compositional brilliance Storm put into these.....The layouts and positioning of everything would make Stanley Kubrick proud....it's really an unbelievable feat and must have taken days to design and organize...I feel like very little in the photo of the messy bar was "left to chance" instead most items and even all the papers and down to glasses and just littlest detail was carefully placed, lit, and then shot. now as a working artist for some 15 years I appreciate these covers even more today... I have 3 of them and I am just going to get them all...I think this and Houses of Holy are the two greatest album covers of all time (the inner sleeve/spread on Houses is also just an incredible image) thanks for all the posts! ricH

I'd feel funny dropping him a note about the actual packaging of the records....I know obviously he did all the art/photography....it's a thought though so thanks a lot. I have gotten some very good leads.

thanks again for all your help! ricH/

Hi this is my first post here....been a HUGE Zeppelin fan for 21 years now... Here's the mystery I am trying to unravel; I am collecting all the In through the outdoor covers on vinyl and I have 1 cover (or back cover) that is driving me crazy. I saw it recently in the black bound cd set where they show all the cover and back cover imagery but don't really give any liner notes to which matches with which/ I did a wikipedia search and saw all the covers and this piece was NOT one of them.... In through the outdoor wikipedia I can't seem to figure out if this is actually a cover or back cover...or if it even exists on a vinyl edition?? The piece is specifically the one below with NO color swatch on it. The "characters" are all doing something slightly different than in the color swatched piece and it is cropped slightly different. I posted both because they are so similar and I didn't want any confusion if I just verbally explained it. Is this image (the one on the left), a cover or a back cover (and if it is a back cover what is the front cover image on the vinyl). And does anyone have it here? This cover was HUGE influence on me as well as the Houses of the Holy cover (I am an artist working for Warner Brothers for the last 13 years) and I would love to solve this mystery and get this version into my collection asap/ any help would be greatly appreciated! (my apologies if this isn't the correct spot for this post...I wasn't sure if this would be considered trivia) thanks very much in advance. ricH.