Was listening to Catatonia’s last album which has Hayley Mills from the movie Tiger Bay on the cover.
I knew there were others like that.
While only well known for a sad event, Evelyn McHale’s suicide photo wound up on several covers (the real pic, or as reenactments, or art)
The Beatles Sgt Peppers of course, has a bunch of 'em. But what else…
Oh yeah, actress Tuesday Weld was on Girlfriend
Can you think of others?
Does the infamous first album by the Residents count, with its direct parody of another famous album cover, with the famous faces distorted in various ways?
I just thought of 3 others (well, one is a band who was known for putting well known women, models on the cover, so several there alone), but I want to give others a chance to get a word in.
If the thread fades away, I’ll post 'em.
The first one that came to my mind was
Most folks might recognize Christopher Lee and James Coburn, but there are four other celebrities there that folks from the UK would likely have recognized back in the day.
I absolutely love that Matthew Sweet album, I looked for months up at school for it, and finally had to hit Zia here in the big city to find it.
The woman shown here making Dave Brubeck feel like the luckiest guy in the world was Suzy Parker, one of the top models of the 1950’s, star of countless magazine covers and who later appeared in a Twilight Zone episode and later still was the namesake for a Beatles song.
The photo was taken by Richard Avedon at the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco.
I thought of a few that featured a girlfriend or wife which I guess shouldn’t count. Cicily Tyson wasn’t super-famous when Miles released ESP
I’m not sure how famous the various models were on all those Roxy Music albums
Good quiz!
That was the band I was thinking of
Dali protégée Amanda Lear was on this one, she was a singer and actress too.
And Jerry Hall was well known, she had a part in Burton’s Batman
And beyond that, Léa Seydoux was on Bryan Ferry’s Olympia
Dolores Erickson:
Ester Cordet:
We lost one this week.
Welp, I gotta do Alice - art was drawn by the great Drew Struzan, with the band surrounded by period movie stars like Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Peter Lorre, and Groucho Marx.
The inner sleeve showed them with Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Judy Garland, Errol Flynn, Clara Bow, Boris Karloff, Zasu Pitts, Tyrone Power, Bela Lugosi, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.
When asked why they didn’t use this or that star, bassist Dennis Dunaway said they could only use the dead… I don’t know why. They were only allowed to use Groucho because he was friends with Alice.
I still don’t know why they drew the drummer, Neal Smith that short, he was a tall dude.
But as a fan of classic Hollywood and its stars, it’s always been one of my favorite covers.
Actor Richard Davalos - fans of CT will remember him playing the guy who slept with his sister in Legacy of Blood.
Suze Rotolo, artist, activist… one of the more memorable covers from the 60s
…And Don’t the Kids Just Love It by British punk band Television Personalities, featuring Twiggy and Patrick Macnee on the cover.
TP are remembered today mostly for two things: they got in trouble with Pink Floyd and their fans for reading out Syd Barrett’s home address during a show; and their drummer was a fellow called Mark Sheppard who later took up acting and appeared in things like Firefly, Supernatural, Leverage, Battlestar Galactica, and… just about everything else, really.
Mildly surprised that no one’s posted the obvious:
I mentioned it in the first post, but didn’t post a pic. Figured someone would do it sometime. And that time is now.
