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TIL after 50 years researchers have identified the mystery man on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV as Lot Long, a thatcher who was born in Mere, Wiltshire in 1823 & died in 1893. At the time of the photograph, he was a widower living in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere.

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