# Zacron

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{{Short description|English artist (1943–2012)}}
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'''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](/source/Led_Zeppelin_III).<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](/source/Norwich_Evening_News) 24|date=September 30, 2004|access-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Zacron was born in [Sutton, Surrey](/source/Sutton%2C_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](/source/Surbiton) from 1957-1960 with [Eric Clapton](/source/Eric_Clapton), and later at [Kingston College of Art](/source/Kingston_College_of_Art) where he met [Jimmy Page](/source/Jimmy_Page). He lectured at [Leeds College of Art](/source/Leeds_College_of_Art) from 1967-1970.<ref name=zacron.com/> He taught at [Acton County School](/source/Ark_Acton_Academy).{{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](/source/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](/source/Fancy_(band)) 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](/source/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital) in [London](/source/London) for terminally ill children, organised by Light and Sound at [Abbey Road Studios](/source/Abbey_Road_Studios).<ref name=zacron.com/>

He died in January 2012 from [bowel cancer](/source/bowel_cancer), but his death was not revealed publicly until August that year.<ref name=classicrockmagazine/>

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Category:British album-cover and concert-poster artists
Category:1943 births
Category:2012 deaths
Category:20th-century English male artists
Category:21st-century English male artists
Category:Alumni of Kingston University
Category:Academics of Leeds Arts University
Category:Artists from the London Borough of Sutton
Category:Deaths from colorectal cancer
Category:Led Zeppelin
Category:Pseudonymous painters
Category:20th-century British painters
Category:21st-century British painters

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