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Japan: Tin Drum 1981 (c) Virgin
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Miles Davis: Tutu 1986 (c) Warner Bros.
The cover was designed by Eiko Ishioka and photographed by Irving Penn.
The cover of this album can be seen in the film The Talented Mr. Riply, despite being set in the 1950s.
Gorilla Zoe’s album Welcome to the Zoo has a cover inspired by this album’s cover.
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R.E.M. - Losing My Religion 7” 1991 (c) Warner Bros.
Photography By Anton Corbijn.
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John Lennon: Rock ‘n’ Roll 1975 (c) Apple
In September 1974, May Pang attended the first Beatlefest convention at Lennon’s behest, and met Jurgen Vollmer, an old friend of the Beatles from Hamburg, Germany, who had photographed the band from their Hamburg days. He was selling some striking portraits, and Pang immediately phoned Lennon to tell him of her find. Reuniting with Vollmer in New York, Lennon chose one of his photos for the covers album.
The photo depicts Lennon in a doorway with three blurry figures walking past him in the foreground. Those figures are Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stu Sutcliffe.
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The Cure: Standing On a Beach 1986 (c) Fiction
The man featured on the album cover was John Button, and was at the time a retired fisherman. He also appeared in the music video for “Killing an Arab.” According to the band’s 2005 autobiography by Jeff Apter, when asked why he agreed to lend his face to the band’s media, Button’s answer was “If I can help these youngsters break through, after all, why not?” He also reportedly said that he would buy a player and listen to one of the band’s songs “out of curiosity, just to see.”
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