David Juniper and Frank Borman Inscribed Led Zeppelin II.

JUNIPER, David; Frank Borman; [Led Zeppelin].

$2,000.00

Item Number: 145289

Burbank, CA: Atlantic Recording Corporation, 2014.

Led Zeppelin’s second album, first released in 1969. Double-folding album with designs by cover artist David Juniper. Inscribed by David Juniper on the front panel, “The music of ‘Led Zeppelin I’ had blown me away and so on spec, I mocked up a fold-out design for the second album and took it to Led Zeppelin’s manager David Juniper – designer of the cover art for ‘Led Zeppelin II.'” Additionally inscribed by Frank Borman on the front panel, “Not Neil Armstrong! Frank Borman Apollo 8 CDR.” American aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut Frank Borman was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 24 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Borman’s face was superimposed on the cover of the album with the members of the band because Juniper had believed he was Neil Armstrong. In fine condition.

Led Zeppelin II was conceived during a busy period of Led Zeppelin's career from January through August 1969, when they completed four European and three American concert tours. The cover art for this album was developed by David Juniper, a classmate of Jimmy Page’s from Sutton Art College in Surrey. His brilliant design for Led Zeppelin II was based on a photograph of the Jagdstaffel 11 Division of the German Air Force during World War I, the Flying Circus led by the Red Baron. Juniper replaced four of the flyers’ heads with photos of the band members and other famous people, including Frank Borman.