But where Bowie’s Hunky Dory pose found him mimicking old-Hollywood glamour, the Ziggy Stardust album cover would turn him into an icon in his own right, immediately marking itself out as one of the best David Bowie album covers of all time. That design ended up in wider use on the 2020 reissue of the album, which also reverted to using The Man Who Sold The World’s original title: Metrobolist.ĥ: ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ (1972)Īs with the Hunky Dory album cover, the photo used for The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars was taken by Brian Ward and later coloured in by Terry Pastor and George Underwood. One of the earliest David Bowie album covers to fall foul of the censors, the artwork was rejected by his US record label, who instead used a cartoon illustration Bowie had originally commissioned – and himself rejected, in favour of the “man’s dress” sleeve – from a friend, Michael J Weller. At the start of the 70s – and on the cusp of a revolution in gender experimentation – Bowie, now sporting a curly blond mane reportedly inspired by a Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, posed on a chaise longue in his Haddon Hall home for the cover of The Man Who Sold The World wearing a “man’s dress” made by British fashion designer Michael Fish. In the hospital, Jim learns that a young man was injured, and a teenaged girl died.In an early example of Bowie’s canny media manipulation, in 1964 he formed the Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Men With Long Hair and soon found himself (then still trading as Davie Jones) on the London Evening News, defending his shoulder-length locks with members of his first band, The Manish Boys, in tow. As he reaches for a bottle of booze under the seat, he slams into an oncoming car. But Jim loses track of time, (and the number of beers he’s had), and proceeds to get behind the wheel of his car, where he hopes to speed back in time to see Julie off on her big night. He tells his friend Lou that he can’t stay at the bar long tonight, because his daughter Julie is turning 16 that very day, and going out on her first date. "Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday tells the story of Jim, a guy who hangs out in bars, and enjoys a drink, or two, a little more than he should. Instead the album has been singled out as the best of the worst – not for Bult’s singing abilities, but for its unfortunate cover art." "His one and only LP, Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday should have been his calling card to country music stardom. John Bult John Bult - Julie's Sixteenth Birthdayĭiscogs tells the story of this album best: We also warn you, some aren't quite suitable for work.
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These are the images that you will most definitely not want gracing your iPhone or Android device when travelling on the tube. Throughout time there have been some quite simply, mind-bogglingly bad covers of albums, some new, most not, and we've decided to round up the funniest, weirdest or those are just downright wrong in a gallery above for you to flick through. And that means there is still the possibility of an album art shocker. It might not adorn the front of a battered single or LP anymore, but we still love having the cover art show up while our tracks are playing through whatever media device or service we happen to be using. Even CDs have seemingly had their day, shunted aside for the convenience of digital downloads and streaming.Ī part of the music business that digital downloads have not cast aside, however, is the humble cover art. (Pocket-lint) - Tell kids today that we used to buy our music in the form of large circular black plastic discs that got sticky in the sun and they won't believe you.