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Greatest album photography: Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
June 1, 2021
Naked kids – in car paint. They wouldn’t get away with that now, etc, etc… We reveal the fascinating story behind the jaw-dropping album artwork for Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy (1973), as executed by Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell
The commission for design agency Hipgnosis to create the Houses of the Holy album cover came about after Led Zeppelin’s lead guitarist Jimmy Page telephoned the company’s studio. Hipgnosis was co-founded by Aubrey Powell and the late Storm Thorgerson in 1967 and Powell recalls, ‘Page had seen an album cover we’d done for Wishbone Ash, called Argus, which was a photo of a warrior shot in the south of France. It was a very misty picture and we painted a flying saucer into the mist. He liked the atmosphere of that and said, “Would you be interested to work for Led Zeppelin?”