[Houses of the Holy photoshoot]

Powell: I got a phone call from Jimmy Page, asking if Hipgnosis was interested in designing a cover for Houses of The Holy

I agreed, and asked to hear the music and see the lyrics. He said, "No, just turn up in a few weeks with some ideas."

'The Dark Side of the Moon' sold 65 million copies. A billion people have probably seen that image.

When we showed up, Storm and I basically just had a sketch on a napkin. That’s how we did things in those days. Not very high-tech.

The sketch was from an idea that came from science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s novel At Childhood’s End. At the end of the book,

all the kids in the world go up into space in an enormous column of gold fire. I drew that on a napkin and Jimmy Page loved the idea.

Then Robert Plant suggested we find some "interesting rocks," and I said, "How about we go to the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland?"

They gave us carte blanche to shoot there for as long as we wanted, even though it would be expensive. At that time,

bands had all the creative power—more power than record companies.

We went with a family—three adults, two kids, up on the rocks—and it poured rain for five days. It was absolutely miserable.

I needed to make this cover extraordinary, but there was no chance of sunshine. The photos we took were in black and white,

in the pouring rain. Each album cover had a totally unique design process.

Finally, I decided to cut each individual child out from the various black and white photographs and created a montage.

I hand-tinted it in bright orange and gold and red, rich colors, with 11 gorgeous children running up these octagonal rocks.

The image is completely made up. That’s the cover you buy in record stores. I put the original black-and-white photos in this book

because no one's ever seen them before. I’ll always remember when I showed the final cover to Jimmy Page in the parking lot of a train station

in England as he was returning home from tour. I opened up the car trunk, and there was the artwork.

He said, "That looks incredible—that thing will gather a crowd." Within 10 minutes, 200 people were gathered round, looking in the car trunk

and at Jimmy Page, dressed in all his finery with long hair and a lot of jewelry.

Ahh thank you, I actually read that article but apparently I missed that part that you highlighted...

[Houses of the Holy photoshoot]

Hey guys,

So I saw this picture some time ago and always assumed that man is Robert, but now I'm not so sure and I just can't seem to find any information on this. Every article I read about the Houses of the holy photo shoot only concerns the children but never says anything about the grown-up models.
Does anybody know something about this?