“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on.
And it makes me wonder.”

- Robert Plant

The hottest ticket on planet Earth last night was undoubtedly the much-hyped Led Zeppelin reunion in London.  (No doubt a few of you were there).

Zeppelin fans have long since debated the significance of playing the band’s anthem Stairway to Heaven backwards to divine its secret satanic messages.  Well, you don’t have to play the song backwards to see that Robert Plant was clearly referring to the hedge fund industry (at the time, a rather small group) when he warned not to be alarmed by short-term hedge fund volatility – which he called “a bustle in…hedge row“.

(For anyone who doubts this, just explain to us why the cover of “Led Zeppelin IV” pictures a man with part of a hedge on his back…  We rest our case.)

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