It has been a long time since I’ve produced a trivia blog. So, in the spirit of Christmas, I’ve decided to write one.
Did you know that the cover of “London calling” by the Clash is commonly known as the best one ever? I’ll embed a link right there (I have learnt to embed things recently and have promised to use that function. Hence forth). Now, if you thought that this little tit bit was common knowledge, maybe you were unaware that Pennie Smith, the lady who took that picture, thought it was too out of focus, due to her backing away from Simonon (The bass player using his guitar like an axe). Thankfully Joe Strummer (The Clash’s band leader) thought it would make a good album cover.
By contrast, The Beach Boy picture of Pet Sounds, although praised to be one of the best Rock album of all time, is considered to be a mess. I let you be the judge with this link.
Let’s stay on the subject and evoke the famous prism filtering a ray of white light into a spectrum of colors (omitting the indigo one). We are contemplating, of course, the masterpiece manufactured by Pink Floyd called Dark side of the moon. Many things have been said about that picture, and I won’t bother today to repeat them. A less little known fact is that the band were so confident of the quality of Roger Waters’ lyrics that, for the first time, they printed them on the album’s sleeve.
The “Abbey Road” album by the Beatles has an interesting little trivia. When you look at the picture, you can see there is a white Volkswagen Beetle to the left of the picture, parked next to the zebra crossing. It belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio. After the album was released, the number plate (LMW 281F) was repeatedly stolen from the car.
As for me, the closest I’ve ever been to make an album cover was with the band I was a part of with my children: The Little G band. We did a series of photos to post on Facebook for an upcoming show. This is my favorite:
