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☆ Mystery of ‘Stick Man’ on Led Zeppelin album cover finally solved
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —After more than half a century, the identity of the elderly, stick-carrying man featured on the “Led Zeppelin IV” album cover has finally been revealed. The “Stick Man” who featured on the cover of English rock band Led Zeppelin’s 1971 fourth studio album was a thatcher from the late-Victorian era, the Wiltshire Museum in southwestern England said in a statement Wednesday. Led Zeppelin members (left - right) John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant pose in front of their private airliner The Starship in 1973. This colored version was the only feature on the “Led Zeppelin IV” album cover, which, unusually, had no words on it, not even the band’s name. “It is fascinating to see how this theme of rural and urban contrasts was developed by Led Zeppelin and became the focus for this iconic album cover 70 years later,” the museum’s director, David Dawson, said in the statement.

Persons: thatcher, Wiltshire thatcher, Longyear –, Brian Edwards, UWE Bristol, Wiltshire Thatcher, Edwards, Ernest, Zeppelin, Robert, Jimmy, John Paul, ” Edwards, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Ernest Howard Farmer, Jimmy Page’s, David Dawson Organizations: London CNN, Wiltshire Museum, University of the, England, Regional, BBC Radio Wiltshire, Zeppelin, Hulton Locations: England, Wiltshire, Mere , Wiltshire, Shaftesbury, Whitsuntide, ”, Berkshire

☆ Kirsty MacColl’s Voice Was Singular. A New Box Aims to Bring It Wider.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Bob Mehr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“It revealed to people what you could do with those very spare songs of mine,” Bragg said, “that they were capable of being made to great big pop numbers. In 1986, MacColl sang on the Smiths single “Ask” and became a close friend and collaborator of the band’s guitarist, Johnny Marr. Later, when asked how she came up with the sequence, she shrugged: “Well, I put the song I liked best first, and the second best, second … and so on.”Bragg laughed, recalling the anecdote. A duet about a bickering couple on Christmas Eve, the song was originally sung on a demo by the Pogues’ frontman Shane MacGowan and bassist Cait O’Riordan. By the time the group cut it, O’Riordan had left the band, and the track needed a powerful female voice.

Persons: MacColl, Jamie, Louis, Billy Bragg’s “, ” Bragg, Kirsty, ”, Robert Plant, ” Lillywhite, Johnny Marr, “, ” Marr, Joshua Tree, Lillywhite, “ That’s, Shane MacGowan, Cait O’Riordan, O’Riordan Organizations: England ”, Lillywhite, Pogues Locations: England, York

☆ ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Tedros Has Notes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So it’s not only Tedros who is pushing his ideology onto Jocelyn but also his followers, who preach his ideas that good art comes out of pain. Even the sweet-seeming Chloe pushes Jocelyn to evoke her mother in her music — and this is before Chloe learns the full extent of what Jocelyn’s mom did. After berating her that “you make superficial music because you think about superficial things,” Tedros pushes Jocelyn to tell everyone just how her mother hurt her. It was a tool of motivation — Jocelyn’s mother used the hairbrush to keep her awake, or to make her learn her lines or dance moves. Tedros feigns sympathy but also immediately identifies another way to control Jocelyn.

Persons: it’s, Jocelyn, Chloe, Izaak, Robert Plant’s, ”, Tedros, Xander, — Locations: Jocelyn’s

☆ The Album Art Studio That Made Pink Floyd’s Pig Fly
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Mark Yarm | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn, the director of “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis),” a documentary on the design firm that opens in New York on June 7, had a slightly different take. “It’s just not normal to fly all the way to Hawaii to do that picture,” he said. Among the 415 album covers Hipgnosis made between 1968 and 1983 was Pink Floyd’s “Animals” (1977), for which a 40-foot inflatable pig was photographed floating between the chimneys of London’s Battersea Power Station. Unfortunately, the single cable affixed to the pig snapped, and up the balloon went — into the flight zone for Heathrow Airport. Noel Gallagher, a fan, provides some modern-day context and comic relief.

Persons: Anton Corbijn, ”, “ It’s, Hipgnosis, Pink Floyd, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Corbijn, Powell, David Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Gouldman, Noel Gallagher Organizations: Battersea Power, Heathrow Airport, Pink Locations: New York, Hawaii, London, Battersea

☆ ExodusPoint's 2022 struggles is a lesson for all of Wall Street: Play the hits
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I shudder to compare some of the greatest artists of our generation to a hedge fund, but I can't help but notice some similarities between their disdain for their biggest hits and ExodusPoint's difficult 2022. The hedge fund, which still holds the industry's largest launch in history, ended the year with fewer assets, employees, and PMs than it started with. The world's biggest hedge fund has a new co-CIO. Ken Griffin, the billionaire owner of hedge fund Citadel, is causing quite the stir over his suggestion that a historic home on a property he owns in Miami be relocated. The firm continues to cut back on the size of a venture-capital fund its raising, The Wall Street Journal reports, with a new goal of $5 billion.

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