Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, Watch Saxon’s high-octane cover of Deep Purple’s Speed King, a celebration of rock ’n’ roll history, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and Jon Bon Jovi to celebrate Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, Listen to Thunder revisit the ’80s with strutting hard rocker Going To Sin City, New York Dolls: the ultimate bluffers's guide, George Thorogood: the soundtrack of my life. Graham Hughes who did the [cover], took a really great picture, but I think the weird thing about Quadrophenia is the grayness of it. Notably, the Australian release substitutes Medac for Clearasil on Keith Moon’s photo. The Minnesota Historical Society will be hosting an archive of CityPages.com. Check back soon for more info. Patti Smith, 'Horses' (1975) Aside from the critical acclaim for Smith's beat poetry-infused lyrics … New material is always welcome but can be intimidating. (Classic Rock) 28 October 2016, How a rubbish dump in County Durham provided the backdrop to The Who's iconic album sleeve. Sir Peter designed and contributed a painting for the sleeve of The Who’s album Face Dances in 1981. “I was working with Pete Townshend on his Lifehouse project, which was an ambitious concept based on a futuristic era when people got their entertainment through being strapped into special suits,” recalls Ethan Russell, the American photographer who took the album’s iconic cover shot. He’s very gentle.”. “We were driving back through [County Durham] from a gig one night, doing about 110 miles per hour down the motorway – which freaked me out. Ending Jan 13 at 3:08PM PST 4d 11h. Visit our corporate site. After delays surrounding the cover artwork, Tommy was released on 17 May 1969 in the US by Decca and 23 May in the UK by Track Records. WhiteFang's Who Site - The World's Largest Collection Of The Who Records & CDs Bath The cover of Paul Weller’s 2005 album “Stanley Road”. This was probably confusing to Aussie listeners since one of the jingles on the album is for Medac, and as far as I know they didn’t record a Clearasil spot. Quadrophenia was originally released as a double album by Track Records in November 1973 (Track 2657 013).Released to coincide with The Who’s first UK and US tours for two years, it reached #2 in both countries’ album charts. Offers may be subject to change without notice. I hate it.'. BA1 1UA. The cover is also a direct callback to the band’s history, featuring images of a pinball machine (signifying the band’s 1969 hit “Pinball Wizard”), baked beans (a reference to the group’s cover of The Who Sell Out), and Eel Pie Island (a small stretch of land in London where Townshend briefly lived and the Who played a few gigs early on). One was “Odorono,” about deodorant… And then we did the [album cover] session and there were two people involved: Dave Montgomery, who was the art director and photographer, and Roger Law, the guy that’s responsible for the Spitting Image puppets on TV in the U.K. Art and design have always been a major factor in the Who’s work. Without any hesitation, the four Who members gathered around one of the mysterious objects, and Russell started shooting. CD album ships from and sold by Amazon.com. 1 Jan. Also the way that he approached it, it’s Magritte-like. Under the Cover is a column that reveals the stories behind album art. Complete your purchase of the CD album to save the MP3 version to your Music Library. There was a problem. “I was a huge fan,” Townshend tells EW of the young painter, who went on to design the cover of the Who’s 1981 LP Face Dances, as well as this year’s WHO, the band’s first album of original material in 13 years. How a rubbish dump in County Durham provided the backdrop to The Who's iconic album sleeve Shares Up there among the elite British rock albums, The Who ’s Who’s Next was not only a triumphant follow-up to Tommy , but also touched by the hand of Lady Luck – and that’s never more true than with the way the cover concept came together. 10 Jan. David Bowie: Five Years. Up there among the elite British rock albums, The Who’s Who’s Next was not only a triumphant follow-up to Tommy, but also touched by the hand of Lady Luck – and that’s never more true than with the way the cover concept came together. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. $6.99 to $39.99. “We did a lot of different poses, including some based on the 2001: A Space Odyssey idea of the apes gathering around the black obelisk. See Me, Feel Me - 1994 cover by Various Artists. The Beatles: Sgt. We both swore to never use LSD again, even though we had loved it, and we loved the colorful hippie scene. That was it. EELS’ END TIMES BY ADRIAN TOMINE. The album overshot its April deadline, as stereo mastering continued into the end of the month. The original cover for the debut album by Guns N' Roses was a robot rapist causing havoc on the streets, but was soon changed to the now classic skull and cross bone cover. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. From their 1993 Don't Crowd Me 45 MP3. Terms and Conditions.Does not apply to gift orders. Peter Blake designed the cover and contributed a painting to the sleeve of The Who’s 1981 album Face Dances. From their 1993 Substitute CD Single (Promo) MP3. I hate it. I felt a real deep connection. [After asking to do the artwork] — that lattice thing with our images in between — he didn’t do it straight away. The band played a new song from this new album at the time and I was skeptical I must admit. Years ago, before American society had achieved full pornofication, the raciest image in a teenager’s room might be an album cover. The first CD version (Polydor 831 072-2) was released in the early 1980s, followed by a remastered double CD in 1996 (Polydor 531 971-2). 4 / 20 Item 4 of 20 Russell is the only man to have worked on covers for the Brit ‘big three’: The Who, The Rolling Stones (Through The Past Darkly) and The Beatles (Let It Be). We had a long conversation and I told him about my project, which was to write this rock opera. It was photographed by a very fine photographer in Ethan Russell, who, thank God, I really liked and used again for Quadrophenia, but I hate the front cover, I hate the back cover, I think it’s disgusting. It’s the kind of thing that’s great to look at when you’re looking at the music.”, “It’s another piece of s—. He used gouache. There’s no irony in it, there’s no truth in it. Anyway, the band had virtually finished Who’s Next, but still didn’t have a clue about what to do about the cover.”. Until the arrival of Elvis, entertainers had typically been restrained and on best behaviour while on stage. They made us very, very welcome, and they had each of us take a different photograph. But the Mississippi singer who became known as The King threw away that rulebook, thrusting his hips in an overtly sexual style and running wild with a raw, primal energy. We came back to London and got interested in some of the big questions that taking the acid had raised: Who am I, what am I, what am I doing here? You know, it’s an example of a new band that’s being guided by a record company of what, to us at the time, would have been an old man who didn’t know what the hell we were about. It’s meaningless. I think it’s wonderful, absolutely wonderful. And many musicians (and record-company art … The cover is much, much, much better than the music.”, Credit: Read More . Even the album cover is an acknowledgement of the record’s innate Who factor; it’s by Peter Blake, who made the Who’s similarly laid-out Face Dances sleeve (as … Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (1971) A cornerstone of any early seventies record collection, ‘60s … Decca Records, Credit: Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with albums for Oasis, Paul Weller, and Eric Clapton. You will receive a verification email shortly. Of course I don’t like it. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Taken at Easington Colliery, the concept for the photo came from band members John Entwistle and Keith Moon. “I think the cover is just pathetic. “We had just played at Monterey [Pop Festival], and Karen came with me. Russell admits that he didn’t exactly have his finger on the motor drive, and took only a few shots. I hate it. I don’t think it’s great. “We decided to go very pointedly for something that was Pop art and was referring back to some of the symbolism I’ve used over the years,” Blake says. No link to the music. I think the idea is great.”, “The band was really busy at the time. The result was the album In Search of the Lost Chord, an excellent collection of late 1960s psychedelia dealing with favorite themes of the time: higher consciousness, space travel, spirituality and philosophy. But it’s nuts. The Who‘s “Who” album will be the 28th record cover that Peter Blake has designed. MCA Records. So we came up with the idea to write jingles [for The Who Sell Out]. The Who Sell Out is the third studio album by the British rock band the Who.It was released on 15 December 1967 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US.. A concept album, The Who Sell Out is structured as a collection of unrelated songs interspersed with fake commercials and public service announcements. Pete was driving, and he asked me whether I had any ideas for the sleeve. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, They poured some rainwater on the pillar to achieve a similar effect. Under the Cover is a column that reveals the stories behind album art. $4.98 shipping. The photographer was a nice guy and he took some good pictures of us. Featured on the Who Covers Who album MP3. To reconnect us with where we’d come from and the humility and the modesty of turning to our original mod audience and saying, ‘You had a great adventure, you were our inspiration, and it’s not that you want to be like us, it’s that we want to be like you.’ And I think Roger saw it the other way around, [that] Jimmy was somebody who would really want to be like all of us. Credit: THE WHO CLOSER TO QUEEN MARY LP BLUE VINYL VG+ VINYL TMOQ. My Ken-L-Ration - 1993 cover (of "My Generation") by Flying Saucers. Substitute - 1993 cover by The Ramones. He started to take each song and tried to do a piece about it. Lana Del Rey is reflecting on her recent album-cover reveal. Travers struggled to come up with ideas for the album cover: “The band wanted me primarily to illustrate the concept of meditation. "They were gone in a flash, but I said to him that they might make an interesting backdrop for a photo shoot. I think the only person that didn’t was Roger [Daltrey] because those baked beans were straight out of the fridge. The 22 squares depict some of the band's influences and symbols of their career and culture: We had a lot of fun. By Anyway, can we move on?”, “[The artwork] arose out [of an] argument with Roger. Over the band’s 55-year career, they have produced a variety of legendary covers, logos, and iconography — some of which were influenced by Blake himself. Their concept was based around Blake’s series the Sources of Pop Art, which uses imagery once employed by fellow Pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Ths dramatic shot, taken at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida by William V. 'Red' Robertson, captures him in a full, convention-defying flow. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. Looking for the City Pages Archives? The whole picture does seem to be about the size of Keith Moon’s penis, to be honest, which, in the tradition of the day, was quite possibly a sock.”, “I had this, I’m not going to call it an idea, I was just having fun knocking around the thought that one day we might be famous enough to sell the space in between our tracks on the album for commercials. The idea to go to Peter Blake, it probably came from a desire to get some color, but I remember meeting Peter at the Ivy restaurant in London, both of us getting completely smashed, somebody being punched by Omar Sharif, and going home. Both cover photographs by David Wedgebury.) The limited edition tripple vinyl, Deluxe CD and cassette edition of “WHO”. Track Record, Credit: It was all a spur-of-the-moment thing.”. We had a really bad acid trip on the way back. 15 Jan. Pete's gold Strat has been won! And we went to a small gathering at which Mike McInnerney was doing some artwork. 2 bids. All rights reserved. $3.86 shipping. Read More . I was thrilled to meet him. The original cover was going to be the image on the inside sleeve, which was a Battersea power station with [the main character] Jimmy riding his scooter… The whole point of the record was to try to refocus the members of the band, including myself, on its roots. 'I mean, it's just a s—y little polite record sleeve. Read More I think that’s perfectly okay, but it’s not the way that I saw it. And I’d go and see him every couple of days and had conversations with him about how it was unfolding. I’d always had a crush on [his art]. It’s very detailed. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Punk had made a lot of noise, and then immediately declined. Peter[‘s idea for the cover was to] commission all these incredible British artists to produce panels. The album cover was created by Pop artist, Sir Peter Blake who first met the band in 1965 at a taping of the legendary TV show Ready Steady Go! Around the same time, he developed an interest in the work of Sir Peter Blake, a British Pop artist who, most famously, designed the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. I mean, it’s just a s—y little polite record sleeve. It’s a horrible thing. In 2010, The New Yorker cartoonist Adrian Tomine … It was LSD, Haight Ashbury, and in London, it was Pink Floyd at the UFO Club and International Times magazine. “There’s a book that’s just been published in celebration of the 50th anniversary by [Tommy cover artist] Mike McInnerney in which, lo and behold, my ex-wife, Karen [Astley], did an interview about the period in which this album and the artwork [were] conceived. The album cover has been created by famed Pop artist, Sir Peter Blake who first met the band in 1965 at a taping of the legendary TV show Ready Steady Go! So we were left in this kind of weird wasteland of energy and a lot was expected of us as a band — and, to be brutal, we really couldn’t rise to it. It’s got no artistic consequence whatsoever. It’s four guys stopping in a car and pissing up against a chunk of concrete. But 24 hours later, one of his photos had been turned into the cover we know today. So you think '21 is gonna be a good year. And he, like me, had to make last-minute changes. Quality Vinyl Lp Album Lot Classic Rock Pop New Wave 60s 70s 80s You Pick Choose. Just horrible. The funniest stories attached to it are really the fact that we did try to get Heinz Baked Beans to give us some money and they just sent us some beans.”. I got the new album in the mail today and I must say that the entirety of this effort shines on with music mastery as one of the greatest WHO albums. So it was a bit like having an ice bath. Buy the CD album for $10.91 and get the MP3 version for FREE. The Album will be released on 22nd November 2019 and special limited editions are available on The Who’s official site. There are multiple versions of this album cover depending on the country of origin. Jan. 11 (UPI) --Lana Del Rey is giving a glimpse of her Chemtrails Over the Country Club album cover. $21.27. They’re evocative, so again, I’m kind of sad about this album cover. It was immediately after Keith Moon’s death, and we were very, very active, and we were operating during the decline of the punk movement. I think I had the most difficulty, because I was finding it really hard to write songs. Louder “As far as I understand it, a lot of the songs on Who’s Next were originally intended for that record [Lifehouse]. Please refresh the page and try again. The others also tried to take Pete’s lead, but couldn’t actually do it.
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