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Appearances on album covers
Posted by Brookster on 5 January 2012 - 7:56pm.
I was idly wondering on the way home as to which person has appeared on the most album covers? Of course, artists and band members appearing on their own album covers is taken as a given. And I'm disallowing soundtrack albums with photos of actors.
Best I could manage was Joe Dallesandro, who appears on two.
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I'd imagine that the Roxy oeuvre has
got several with Jerry Hall sprawled provocatively, surely? Any Roxy cover aficionados here to confirm or confound?
She's definitely...
... on the cover of "Siren" - and I think that's when Bryan met her - but I'm not sure of any others.
And For Your Pleasure
looking sultry in black with a pet panther.
That's Amanda Lear...
... another one of Bryan's girls, and Bowie's apparently. Her gender was the subject of much speculation.
Stupid answer
deleted as I didn't read the question properly
I'd imagine that
the likes of Thatcher, Reagan and Bush Jnr must feature (or at least be depicted) on a host of covers by those not entirely sympathetic to their policies?
Maybe
But you need to name names.
Thatcher is on the cover of
two Iron Maiden singles
Sanctuary
Women In Uniform
Boris Karloff
as Frankenstein's monster appears on a few albums in my collection. Various psychobilly, horror related LPs
Oh, and if I may turn the question around
then how about this one, as an example of possibly the most appearances on a sleeve?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_the_holy#Album_sleeve_design
Father Christmas
He's been on loads of album covers.
What do you mean, he's not a real person?
There was that boy...
... who was on the cover of a few U2 albums - Boy, War and a compilation.
How about The Beatles
all four of them? They were featured on the front of quite a few albums in the sixties.
Let's see; Please, Please Me, With The, A Hard Day's Night, For Sale, Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour (in disguise, does that count?), Abbey Road & Let It Be and that's not including compliations such as 67-70.
Let's call it ten.
Read the original post
Harsh
but fair
You're not completely wrong - Paul McCartney
appeared on the covers of Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road and Let it Be, after he was dead.
He is you know, I read it on t'interweb.
[dribble dribble]
I can think of a twofer... and it's a good 'un!
Bob Dylan & Marlene Dietrich. They appear on the covers of 'Sgt. Pepper' and Lowell George's 'Thanks I'll Eat It Here.'
George Best
is on the cover of Oasis's Definitely Maybe and George Best by The Wedding Present.
Is he on the cover
of Definitely Maybe ?
Rodney Marsh rather than George Best
on Definitely Maybe I think.
However Burt Bacharach is there in all his (Morning) glory - he must appear on a few other albums outside of his own oeuvre, surely?
He is on it
although you admittedly have to look quite closely. The Rodney Marsh picture is much easier to spot. (As is Lee Van Cleef.)
And isn't Lee Van Cleef
on Band on the Run?
I think you're thinking of...
... James Coburn.
Sorry yeh. I always mix those two up.
On the other hand, I think Clement Freud also appears at the back of the crowd on Ice Cube's "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted".
Maybe wrong on this
But doesn't George also appear on the cover of a Paul Weller album..
Good call...
... Stanley Road.
I didn't know this...
... but apparently the banana used on the "Velvet Underground and Nico" album is the same one that's used on Chris Rea's "God's Great Banana Skin" album. The one used on The Dandy Warhol's album cover is not the same one - but is from the same bunch. (I need to stop drinking).
For crying out loud
Depeche Mode's New Life single has a newborn baby on the cover.
Black Sabbath's Born Again LP has exactly the same baby but with (sigh...) devils' horns and red eyes.
Top Of The Pops
Might have been one or two girls that made multiple appearances on the the sleeves down the years
Lenin
Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Two Tribes single and World Party's Goodbye Jumbo. There must be loads more (Melodiya records probably shouldn't count...)
If we're excluding people who actually performed on the records
...then yer men from Milli Vanilli probably appeared on the covers of a few albums that had very little to do with them performance-wise?!
as did
Andrew Ridgeley?
and Bez
or do maraccas count?