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? © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. 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. Under the Cover is a column that reveals the stories behind album art. My Ken-L-Ration - 1993 cover (of "My Generation") by Flying Saucers. I’d always had a crush on [his art]. Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (1971) A cornerstone of any early seventies record collection, ‘60s … Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Patti Smith, 'Horses' (1975) Aside from the critical acclaim for Smith's beat poetry-infused lyrics … I think that’s perfectly okay, but it’s not the way that I saw it. By Anyway, the band had virtually finished Who’s Next, but still didn’t have a clue about what to do about the cover.”. 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. It’s meaningless. I hate it. We had a really bad acid trip on the way back. Release and reception. The quality of the artwork is very, very refined. There was a problem. Here are all 70 puppies competing in Puppy Bowl XVII, The best books to keep you warm this January, Willie Nelson is no longer smoking marijuana: ‘I have abused my lungs quite a bit in the past’. Peter Blake designed the cover and contributed a painting to the sleeve of The Who’s 1981 album Face Dances. But it’s nuts. “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. It was all a spur-of-the-moment thing.”. “I think the cover is just pathetic. Before he became an instrument-smashing, windmilling rock star, Pete Townshend was a student at Ealing Art College in London, studying kinetic sculpture. $4.98 shipping. I think it’s wonderful, absolutely wonderful. The Beatles, 'Yesterday and Today' (1966) Times have changed: this image of the Beatles in white … Tommy was released in the UK on 23 May 1969 by Track Records (Track 613013/4) with a subsequent double CD (Polydor 800 077-2), followed by a remixed single CD (Polydor 531 043-2) in 1996 and finally a Deluxe Edition two-CD set SACD hybrid (Polydor 9861011) in 2004.It was released in the US on 17 May 1969 (Decca DXSW 7205), then as two CDs (MCA MCAD-10005), MFSL with a single disc remix … 'I mean, it's just a s—y little polite record sleeve. The 22 squares depict some of the band's influences and symbols of their career and culture: He started to take each song and tried to do a piece about it. The cover of Paul Weller’s 2005 album “Stanley Road”. 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. Featured on the Who Covers Who album MP3. We had a lot of fun. “As far as I understand it, a lot of the songs on Who’s Next were originally intended for that record [Lifehouse]. It’s a horrible thing. The photographer was a nice guy and he took some good pictures of us. It’s four guys stopping in a car and pissing up against a chunk of concrete. In 2010, The New Yorker cartoonist Adrian Tomine … 10 Jan. David Bowie: Five Years. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. All rights reserved. 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—. Track Record, Credit: The album purports to be a broadcast by pirate radio station Radio London. I felt a real deep connection. So it was a bit like having an ice bath. Jan. 11 (UPI) --Lana Del Rey is giving a glimpse of her Chemtrails Over the Country Club album cover. “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. “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 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. Read More (Classic Rock) 28 October 2016, How a rubbish dump in County Durham provided the backdrop to The Who's iconic album sleeve. The limited edition tripple vinyl, Deluxe CD and cassette edition of “WHO”. And he, like me, had to make last-minute changes. 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. It was the birth of the hippie era. Until the arrival of Elvis, entertainers had typically been restrained and on best behaviour while on stage. I don’t think it’s great. I think the only person that didn’t was Roger [Daltrey] because those baked beans were straight out of the fridge. Offers may be subject to change without notice. I started to talk to him and he introduced me to the Indian teacher Meher Baba and I was immediately hooked. [After asking to do the artwork] — that lattice thing with our images in between — he didn’t do it straight away. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. 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). I suppose the notion was that 2001: A Space Odyssey was the film of the moment [and we’re] pissing over this 2001 monolith — which is even stupider because I think we all thought the film was fabulous. Russell admits that he didn’t exactly have his finger on the motor drive, and took only a few shots. W… Punk had made a lot of noise, and then immediately declined. 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. Under the Cover is a column that reveals the stories behind album art. Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley (1956) Two simple words: “Elvis” and “Presley” (the latter barely hiding … The Minnesota Historical Society will be hosting an archive of CityPages.com. “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. I couldn’t work out who the Who were, what it was they represented, where they were going to go next… [So this] record was kind of dull. The Beatles: Sgt. The album cover art is a photo of what appears to be the four members of the band in various stages of urination on a large concrete piling that is surrounded by rubble. We both swore to never use LSD again, even though we had loved it, and we loved the colorful hippie scene. Before I knew what had happened, Pete had swung the car back around a roundabout and was heading back to the spot, followed by three other vehicles carrying the rest of the band. EELS’ END TIMES BY ADRIAN TOMINE. They’re evocative, so again, I’m kind of sad about this album cover. Peter[‘s idea for the cover was to] commission all these incredible British artists to produce panels. They made us very, very welcome, and they had each of us take a different photograph. 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. Visit our corporate site. THE WHO CLOSER TO QUEEN MARY LP BLUE VINYL VG+ VINYL TMOQ. 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 … Decca Records, Credit: “The odd thing is that it was only later on that I found out what those pillars were used for: to keep waste in place. 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. Years ago, before American society had achieved full pornofication, the raciest image in a teenager’s room might be an album cover. It’s got no artistic consequence whatsoever. Lana Del Rey is reflecting on her recent album-cover reveal. 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. It was at this point that fate smiled benevolently. This album is almost all new songs written last year, with just two exceptions. “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. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Both cover photographs by David Wedgebury.) Anyway, can we move on?”, “[The artwork] arose out [of an] argument with Roger. Then Pete started to piss on it, and I went with the flow, as it were. MCA Records. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Read More . $21.27. I think the idea is great.”, “The band was really busy at the time. I hate it. Bath There are multiple versions of this album cover depending on the country of origin. Then suddenly, we passed these three or four pillars on the landscape. The others also tried to take Pete’s lead, but couldn’t actually do it. Taken at Easington Colliery, the concept for the photo came from band members John Entwistle and Keith Moon. Notably, the Australian release substitutes Medac for Clearasil on Keith Moon’s photo. And we went to a small gathering at which Mike McInnerney was doing some artwork. 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. $6.99 to $39.99. "They were gone in a flash, but I said to him that they might make an interesting backdrop for a photo shoot. 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. 2 bids. Looking for the City Pages Archives? Also the way that he approached it, it’s Magritte-like. 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. And many musicians (and record-company art … “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. I was thrilled to meet him. He used gouache. © Of course I don’t like it. The album cover was designed by pop artist Peter Blake, whose work includes the band's Face Dances and The Beatles' Sgt. Credit: The Album will be released on 22nd November 2019 and special limited editions are available on The Who’s official site. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. As Blake tells EW, “[Townshend] borrowed a lot of imagery that I used, like the [Royal Air Force] target, the Union Jack flag, and a black-and-white diagonal stripe.” To create the cover of the band’s new album, the 87-year-old artist worked in tandem with graphic designer and frequent collaborator Simon Halfon. Quality Vinyl Lp Album Lot Classic Rock Pop New Wave 60s 70s 80s You Pick Choose. The Who‘s “Who” album will be the 28th record cover that Peter Blake has designed. Travers struggled to come up with ideas for the album cover: “The band wanted me primarily to illustrate the concept of meditation. System of a Down Drummer John Dolmayan Discusses His Crowdfunded Covers Record New Releases Roundup: June 10 The Who take center stage in the first "digital box set" WhiteFang's Who Site - The World's Largest Collection Of The Who Records & CDs Louder The album overshot its April deadline, as stereo mastering continued into the end of the month. 1 Jan. Terms and Conditions.Does not apply to gift orders. Sir Peter designed and contributed a painting for the sleeve of The Who’s album Face Dances in 1981. 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. Art and design have always been a major factor in the Who’s work. The Who: The Kids Are Alright - album cover location of the 1979 documentary soundtrack. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with albums for Oasis, Paul Weller, and Eric Clapton. 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). CD album ships from and sold by Amazon.com. I mean, it’s just a s—y little polite record sleeve. Mike McInnerney’s input was really part of what made [Tommy] work so well. That was it. 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. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Graham Hughes who did the [cover], took a really great picture, but I think the weird thing about Quadrophenia is the grayness of it. $3.86 shipping. From their 1993 Substitute CD Single (Promo) MP3. Excellent 1971 Rock LP - THE GUESS WHO "The Best Of" RCA RECORDS Gatefold. So you think '21 is gonna be a good year. But 24 hours later, one of his photos had been turned into the cover we know today. It’s very detailed. There’s no irony in it, there’s no truth in it. I very much doubt [Daltrey] got pneumonia [as he said in a 2009 interview with the BBC], but I don’t think it was much fun. See Me, Feel Me - 1994 cover by Various Artists. He’s very gentle.”. And I’d go and see him every couple of days and had conversations with him about how it was unfolding. (above) The album cover for The Who's "The Who Sings My Generation" album (first released with a different cover by Brunswick Records in the U.K. in 1965 ; then released with this cover by Decca Records in the USA in 1966. It was a dumping ground for rubbish.”. They did it fantastically quickly, and it was entirely his idea. Just horrible. BA1 1UA. Without any hesitation, the four Who members gathered around one of the mysterious objects, and Russell started shooting. “I found him in a book at first and then subsequently met him at an Institute of Contemporary Art exhibition [in 1964]. Album covers have sadly become a lost art in the twenty-first century. 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. 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. Ending Jan 13 at 3:08PM PST 4d 11h. He worked under a single light bulb. Daily Herald/Mirrorpix via Getty Images, Credit: 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. The photos inside are high-contrast, they’re really beautifully printed. 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. New material is always welcome but can be intimidating. 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! Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (design by Peter Blake) Peter Blake’s pop-art … We had a long conversation and I told him about my project, which was to write this rock opera. From their 1993 Don't Crowd Me 45 MP3. 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.”. Read More . Buy the CD album for $10.91 and get the MP3 version for FREE. You will receive a verification email shortly. So we came up with the idea to write jingles [for The Who Sell Out]. I think I had the most difficulty, because I was finding it really hard to write songs. 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. 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. They poured some rainwater on the pillar to achieve a similar effect. Timed to the release of WHO, Townshend walked through some of the Who’s most iconic album covers, their various influences, and which ones he absolutely loathes. The cover is much, much, much better than the music.”, Credit: 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). 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. No link to the music. 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. 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. 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! 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. The band played a new song from this new album at the time and I was skeptical I must admit. Substitute - 1993 cover by The Ramones. Complete your purchase of the CD album to save the MP3 version to your Music Library. “We had just played at Monterey [Pop Festival], and Karen came with me. I hate it.'. Please refresh the page and try again. 15 Jan. Pete's gold Strat has been won! It is a patchwork of 25 squares: 22 squares showing different coloured images placed around three squares forming the word "WHO" in the centre of the album cover. It’s kind of sad. And he wanted the members of the band on the cover and suggested having a photo of a scooter with the faces in the mirror, which was very much the same trip that Mike McInnerney had done on the cover of Tommy. Check back soon for more info. Warner Bros. Pete Townshend dissects six classic Who album covers. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album covers. Pete was driving, and he asked me whether I had any ideas for the sleeve. It was LSD, Haight Ashbury, and in London, it was Pink Floyd at the UFO Club and International Times magazine. 4 / 20 Item 4 of 20