{{Short description|English artist (1943–2012)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Zacron''', born '''Richard Drew'''<ref name=classicrockmagazine>[http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/led-zeppelin-cover-artist-dies/ Led Zeppelin cover artist dies], classicrockmagazine.com, retrieved 2 August 2012.</ref> (1943 - January 2012) was an English artist who designed the ''Led Zeppelin III'' album cover.<ref name=classicrockmagazine/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/GoingOut/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=WhatsOn&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=WhatsOn&itemid=NOED30%20Sep%202005%2020%3A00%3A23%3A350|title=Norwich Fringe Festival|publisher=Norwich Evening News 24|date=September 30, 2004|access-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref>
== Biography == Zacron was born in Sutton, Surrey in 1943.<ref name=zacron.com>[http://www.zacron.com/zacron-information.asp Zacron Information], Zacron.com, retrieved 6 February 2012.</ref> He studied painting, drawing, design and etching at Studio 35 in Surbiton from 1957-1960 with Eric Clapton, and later at Kingston College of Art where he met Jimmy Page. He lectured at Leeds College of Art from 1967-1970.<ref name=zacron.com/> He taught at Acton County School.{{cn|date=February 2023}} He also taught for a short while at Elliott Comprehensive in Putney.
Zacron's innovation in graphic techniques laid the foundation for his creation of the ''Led Zeppelin III'' album cover in 1970.<ref name=zacron.com/> This album cover is a small component of a vast and varied body of work spanning five decades, with much of his work having a close association to rock and roll.<ref name=pressrelease>Meredith Gunderson, [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/40572338/Press-Release-20-November-2008-For-Immediate-Release-CITY-INN Press Release, 20 November 2008], City Inn Hotels and Number Nine the Gallery, retrieved 6 February 2012.</ref> He also designed the sleeve for Fancy's 1975 album ''Something To Remember''.<ref name=classicrockmagazine/>
Zacron has been described as "multi-sided and multi-talented" with "a robust ethos of independence and bravery, a lifelong quest for knowledge".<ref name=pressrelease/> He was a public advocate of artistic freedom and a notable financial contributor to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for terminally ill children, organised by Light and Sound at Abbey Road Studios.<ref name=zacron.com/>
He died in January 2012 from bowel cancer, but his death was not revealed publicly until August that year.<ref name=classicrockmagazine/>
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