[78-L] politically incorrect record art

[Tom]

There's also the Rolling Stones cover for the "Some Girls" album (from 1978), featuring
the Stones in drag, which I noticed the other day was the subject of a news story on Yahoo.
 
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/live/girls-33-years-later-jagger-richards-talk-punk-023756040.html
 
The revised cover shown in the article isn't nearly as interesting as the original, which
as mentionedfeatured the likeness of Marilyn Monroe, Farrah Fawcett, Lucille Ball
and others, though those images were subsequently removed due to the threat of
litigation.

And I doubt the original cover for the Blind Faith album could ever be done again today,
since the original featured a girl who appeared to be 14 or so (possibly younger) who
was topless and who was shown on the album cover from about mid-abdomen up.

Then there's the "Two Virgins" album cover featuring John and Yoko, both in the buff,
with full frontal nudity on the front of the album cover, along with their backsides on the
back of the album cover -- but then, what else would you expect from John and Yoko?
All wrapped in brown kraft paper at the record store with little cutouts for their faces,
and which even then I thought would one day be a collector's item, though I didn't act
on the impulse, of course.

One more comes to mind right off, which is the Beatles now-infamous original cover of
their album "Yesterday and Today" which featured the Beatles in butcher smocks, smiling
broadly with dismembered dolls and slabs of meat.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dbeatles%2Bbutcher%2Balbum&w=159&h=160&imgurl=www.bing.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbeatles%2Bbutcher%2Balbum%23focal%3D680d02ed4240f9760e6d4f1a9ffd6f16%26furl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.beatlecollector.co.uk%252fbutcher.jpg&size=&name=search&rcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbeatles%2Bbutcher%2Balbum%23focal%3D680d02ed4240f9760e6d4f1a9ffd6f16%26furl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.beatlecollector.co.uk%252fbutcher.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbeatles%2Bbutcher%2Balbum%23focal%3D680d02ed4240f9760e6d4f1a9ffd6f16%26furl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.beatlecollector.co.uk%252fbutcher.jpg&p=beatles+butcher+album&type=&no=1&tt=115&oid=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fim
 ages%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1357777082662%26id%3D9d366ce9cc26ff4d3d375c9c747b5461&tit=The+Beatles+Butcher+Album.+3rd.+State.&sigr=14qbc25ns&sigi=14jpagai3&sigb=11vtgae7m&fr=fptb-dyc-s

It might be easier just to Google "Beatles butcher cover" and take a peek for yourself. The
uproar caused by this particular album cover was so universal and the condemnation so
widespread that it was immediately withdrawn from record stores and replaced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Beatles_-_Butcher_Cover.jpg

Tom



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From: Bertrand CHAUMELLE <chaumelle at orange.fr>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] politically incorrect record art

The handcuffs are just a metaphor because they're heart-shaped. Nothing 
controversial about that, imho !

BC
Le 29 nov. 11, à 21:42, DAVID BURNHAM a écrit :

> I think the most controversial art I've seen is on the Vogue Picture 
> Record, "You took Advantage of Me";  the picture shows a girl in 
> handcuffs with a guy swinging a key ring.  I tried to find a picture 
> of it on line but wasn't successful.
>
> db
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