Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin IV, Wolves FC, and that Duran Duran collaboration 

Led Zeppelin's classic album from 1971 has been rereleased. Richard Purden went along to Molineux stadium to meet the singer before a Wolves game

Robert Plant: accomplished much as part of Led Zeppelin, including the band's fourth album (right) - but is happy to keep doing his own thing. 

After 52 years one of the great enigmas around Led Zeppelin’s IV was reported as solved on the anniversary of the album’s release, November 8 1971. With no wording on the sleeve, it all added to the uncanny image of what became known as ‘the stick man’, a mysterious and bearded hunched figure in a black hat carrying sticks. 

Researcher and longterm Zep fan Brian Edwards recently revealed the man in the picture as Lot Long, a 19th-century thatcher from Wiltshire photographed by Ernest Farmer. The news has arrived just in time for the reissue of the album best known as Led Zeppelin IV, or as singer Robert Plant refers to it, “the fourth album”, for the 75th anniversary of Atlantic Records.