Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin’s cover art, chosen by guitarist and founding member Jimmy Page, features an image of the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg going down in flames in an incident now referred to as the Hindenburg disaster.
The image of a crashing zeppelin was chosen as an homage to the origin of the actual name of the band: When Page, Jeff Beck of The Yardbirds, and The Who’s Keith Moon and John Entwistle were discussing the idea of forming a group, Moon joked, “It would probably go over like a lead balloon,” and Entwistle allegedly replied, “A lead zeppelin!”
