on the car on the Abbey Road cover also reads LMW, doesn't it? As in, 'Linda McCartney Widowed'; which doesn't make much sense if he'd 'died' in 1967 or 1968, or whenever it's supposed to have been, as they weren't married until 1969.

Start this clip at 4.50:

Aren't the faces of the Beatles supposed to be visible in the tree, if you look closely? Also, on the cover of Bringing it Back Home Sally Grossman (the woman in red) was rumored to be a man (some said Bob himself) in drag. Not so, of course.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" album featured a picture of the band surrounded by flames, which appeared to engulf guitarist Steve Gaines who died a few months later in the band's plane crash which also killed Ronnie Van Zandt and other members of the touring party.

Such was the feeling that the album cover in some way foretold the pending disaster that when it was reissued it was replaced with a black cover out of respect for the deceased.

i had not heard about the story surrounding the artwork for that album.

also - quick cheeky question - could you let me know how to attach pictures to postings ('he asks in a totally luddite, ashamed fashion'). much obliged.

There's a paragraph or two on the FAQ page which should explain all. It's not nearly as complicated as the instructions make it look, honest.

Having been instructed in the fine art of blog technique, I am now able to attach the pieces of album artwork which started this blog thread....ithangyew

I remember when Prince's "Sign O The Times" single came out, my mates and I puzzled over the 7" sleeve, was it his bird Cat (see what I did there?) or the man(?) himself?

I think the back cover sheds some light.

I'm fairly convinced it's him but I'm willing to be corrected.
One of the singles and albums of the eighties by the way.

The embossed metal flooring depicted on the cover of the Talking Heads album - Fear of Music was located in New York's famous Plaza Hotel. Although its exact location was a matter for heated debate among fans of the group, the consensus was that it formed part of a service walkway used in elevator maintenance.

In spite of being out of bounds to the general public and indeed most of the hotel staff this nondescript location became an unlikely point of pilgrimage. Over the years many fans managed to evade security and scratch their names and selected lyrics from the album into the metal surface.

Warner Music allegedly considered re-photographing the site for the cover of the 2005 reissue of Fear of Music, before deciding to go with the original image.

In March 2008, a spokesperson for The Plaza Hotel confirmed that "as part of a program of extensive refurbishment, the metal flooring that appears on the album cover of the 1979 Talking Heads album, Fear of Music, has been removed."

Its present location is unknown.

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

The floral arrangement that garnishes the cover of Power, Corruption & Lies was originally a bridal bouquet, carried by the London socialite, Marjorie Brushett, in her wedding to David Hewson-Brown. The ceremony took place at St Joseph's Church, Highgate on August 19th 1899.

After the wedding, the bouquet was transported to the cold storage depot on Nelson's Wharf, Lambeth, where it was frozen in a block of ice. Brushett intended the flowers to be preserved for the duration of her life and subsequently incorporated into her funeral wreath, as a symbol of her enduring fidelity to her husband. However, by the time of her death in the London blitz of 1940, with David Hewson-Brown a casualty of the previous great war, the existence of the wedding bouquet had been forgotten.

The flowers were moved several times over the decades, ending up at another cold storage facility in Stratford. In 1982 they were purchased at auction by New Order cover designer Peter Saville.

Remembering the photography session for Power, Corruption and Lies, Saville described how the flowers were flashed-thawed, after which he had only a few seconds to capture an image of the bouquet, as it visibly wilted before the camera. Within ten seconds all that remained of the arrangement was a cloudy soup, consisting of washed-out petals and disintegrated plant matter.