Yes, Led Zeppelin is an English band. This is the logo for Led Zeppeling's record label, Swan Song. It's Apollo, not an angel, devil, icarus or daedalus. It is adapted from a 19th century drawing Because Swan Song Records created the design for the album cover, Led Zeppelin never featured the Icarus image. Led Zeppelin's Logo: A Symbol Of Ancient Mu. The Led Zeppelin logo is a combination of William Rimmer's pencil drawing of a rock star around 1870 and the band's stage name. Swan Song Records decided to use the drawing as its Led Zeppelin [IV], an Album by Led Zeppelin. Released 8 November 1971 on Atlantic (catalog no. SD 7208; Vinyl LP). Genres: Hard Rock. Rated #2 in the best albums of 1971, and #68 of all time album.. Featured peformers: Jimmy Page (writer, producer), Robert Plant (lead vocals, writer), Andy Johns (recording engineer), Peter Grant (executive producer), Barrington Coleby (illustration NWOBHM legends Iron Maiden released their album Somewhere In Time on this day in 1986. It's one of their most intricately detailed album covers and layered with many in-jokes and nods to their past. Artist Derek Riggs spent weeks on the 32-inch by 15-inch painting. "It wore me out quite severely," Riggs revealed in Martin Popoff's book Sandy Denny was given a symbol on the album sleeve - three pyramids - to thank her. The 1992 Singles soundtrack includes a live cover of "The Battle Of Evermore" by the Lovemongers, Bri from Las Vegas, Nv On the third song from Led Zeppelin's epic IV, Robert Plant introduces his Queen of Light character, who will become so central for The symbol, which is the emblem of "Sacred symbols of the ancient Mu civilization" is said to be associated with the people of the lost continent Atlantis. Plant reportedly stated this in the book, "Led Zeppelin: In Their Own Words.". The feather is a nod to the fact that Plant penned the majority of the lyrics for the band's songs Trying to decode Atlantic/Atco labels and deadwax for vinyl made in the late 60s through the 80s. On the label will be the title, song list and times, and catalog number. But there's also another sequence of letters and numbers. 681461 = the first two letters seem to indicate the year released (1968), but have no idea what the next four numbers The Led Zeppelin symbols are probably one of the most recognizable band logos in rock 'n' roll. Before the release of their fourth album, known as Led Zepplin IV , the band felt some I can't seem to find anybody talking about this. I've always wanted to know where the picture that is next to the Stairway To Heaven lyrics in the inner sleeve of Led Zeppelin IV came from. It's a mysterious drawing of a bearded man reading a book, with symbols etched into the stones behind him. Who's the artist, when was is created, and, the It is the Hermit character from the Tarot, a symbol of self-reliance and wisdom, and it was drawn by Barrington Colby. The typeface for the lyrics to "Stairway" was also my contribution. More subtle than the giant image of the Hermit inside of Led Zeppelin IV, is the album's actual cover art. The image on the front of the record jacket is 2M1Vj.