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You probably couldn’t get away with that now.” “We were naked in a lot of the modelling shoots we did, nothing was thought of it back then. “I remember the shoot really clearly, mainly because it was freezing cold and rained the whole time. Samantha Gates, now living in South Africa, recalls: “A part of me wants to go out to the Giant’s Causeway with a big pair of speakers, strip naked and play it just to see if I have some kind of great epiphany.” “It carries too much significance for me,” he said at the time. Oddly, in 2007 Stefan Gates claimed to have never listened to the album and that he felt there was something perhaps sinister about the cover image. Everybody was so cold, and so freaked out because it wasn’t working, that the only thing I could keep everybody together with was a bottle of Mandrax and a lot of whiskey.” When I first saw it, I said, ‘Oh, my God.’ Then we looked at it, and I said, ‘Hang on a minute, this has an otherworldly quality.’ So we left it as it was. So when we hand-tinted it, the airbrush artist, by accident, put a kind of purple tinge onto them. Because I shot in black and white and it was a gray day, the children turned out very white. Originally, I’d intended the children to be gold and silver. I shot the whole thing in black and white on a totally miserable morning pouring with rain. “It promptly rained for ten days straight. My sister was older so she was probably a bit more self-conscious.”ĭesigner Aubrey Powell said of the shoot: I’d whip off my clothes at the drop of a hat and run around having a great time, so I was in my element. I used to love being naked when I was that age so I didn’t mind.

But there was only me and my sister and that’s our real hair. I’ve heard people saying they put wigs on several children. We stayed in this little guest house near the Giant’s Causeway and to capture the so-called magic light of dawn and dusk we’d shoot first thing in the morning and at night. I remember arriving at the airport and seeing all these people with guns. “For the Zeppelin cover we went to Ireland during the Troubles. Our family wasn’t well off, we certainly couldn’t afford holidays, so it worked out great for us. “We only got a few quid for the modelling and the chance to travel to places we had never been before. Gates said of the shoot, which he did at the age of five with his older sister Samantha:

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One of them went on to become a world famous TV presenter, Stefan Gates, of the BBC’s popular Cooking in the Danger Zone show. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End, where hundreds of millions of Earth’s children gather together to be taken off into space.īut there’s an odd factoid or two about the Houses of the Holy album cover that might surprise you: First off, it was not a small army of naked children with wigs on, it was only two kids, a brother and sister, who were photographed over the course of ten days at dawn and at dusk. Aubrey Powell, the Hipgnosis partner who actually designed the cover, told Q magazine in 2003 that the concept was based on Arthur C. The cover, produced by the legendary London-based design firm, Hipgnosis, was shot on the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Fans have long speculated about the “meaning” of this cryptic image of naked, golden-haired children crawling around an apocalyptic landscape towards… what? Was it a reference to the creepy 50s sci-fi film Village of the Damned? An apocalypse cult? Or was there some “occult significance” to Jimmy Page? I’m sure there must have been quite a lot of stoned, meandering conversations back then about this one. Their final performance was a headlining slot at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute benefit in 2007 (with John Bonham’s son, Jason, boldly keeping the beat) as chronicled in the extraordinary concert film Celebration Day.One of the most iconic record covers of the 1970s is Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, 1973’s Houses of the Holy and it’s also one of the most mysterious. Reunions of the remaining members have been few, mainly a 1985 Live Aid performance and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony a decade later. Together, this legendary troupe amassed an estimated 200-300 million albums sold worldwide, thanks in part to raucous rockers like “Stairway to Heaven,” “Whole Lotta Love,” “Kashmir,” and “Black Dog.” Their reign as the world’s biggest rock band ended all too soon, however, as drummer Bonham succumbed to a tragic alcohol-related death in 1980. Much of their mystical power came from the uncanny chemistry of the blue-eyed soul wailer Robert Plant, guitar great Jimmy Page, whip-smart bassist John Paul Jones, and heavy-hitter John Bonham. Ken Settle Kees Tabak Allan Tannenbaum Barrie Wentzell Neil Zlozowerįormed in London in 1968, Led Zeppelin painted a smoldering picture of hard rock’s future while maintaining reverence for its Delta blues and British folk past.

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