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Creepiest Album Covers

Context is important.

EDIT: I was wrong re the Blind Faith cover, per wiki: "The model on the cover posed upon consent by her parents and was paid £40 (£663 as of 2019) for the shot."

I read that the Loverboy album "Get Lucky" was actually a photo of a twelve year old girls rear, with a the photographer's hand making the crossed finger symbol. That is pretty creepy.

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I read that the Loverboy album "Get Lucky" was actually a photo of a twelve year old girls rear, with a the photographer's hand making the crossed finger symbol. That is pretty creepy.
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"The model wearing the leather pants was 13-year-old Tymara Kennedy, daughter of photographer David Michael Kennedy who shot the cover.

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According to Kennedy, his stylist found only one pair of red leather pants while shopping in New York City before the photo shoot in 1981. They fit none of the band members or models on the set. At home later that day, his daughter returned from school, saw the pants, and asked to try them. They fit her, and Kennedy decided to use her as the model."
Get Lucky (Loverboy album) - Wikipedia
 
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"The model wearing the leather pants was 13-year-old Tymara Kennedy, daughter of photographer David Michael Kennedy who shot the cover.

snip

According to Kennedy, his stylist found only one pair of red leather pants while shopping in New York City before the photo shoot in 1981. They fit none of the band members or models on the set. At home later that day, his daughter returned from school, saw the pants, and asked to try them. They fit her, and Kennedy decided to use her as the model."
Get Lucky (Loverboy album) - Wikipedia

still kinda creepy, when you think about how many guys oogled the image on the cover...

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still kinda creepy, when you think about how many guys oogled the image on the cover...
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Well, in light of wiki saying,
"Until 2014, various claims about the identity of the person wearing the leather pants were made. These included Mike Reno, the band's lead singer, who "just went along with" such claims,[5] and Paul Dean, both of whom wore red leather pants during the concert tour for the album." ...
 
I’m not going to read through all the posts to see if someone already grabbed this, but while working through my new Soul Fingers book, I discovered this one:

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I’m not going to read through all the posts to see if someone already grabbed this, but while working through my new Soul Fingers book, I discovered this one:

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I did see this earlier in the thread. Its hard to un-see.

Not sure if the earlier one had the bonus track :cool:
 
I did see this earlier in the thread. Its hard to un-see.

Not sure if the earlier one had the bonus track :cool:

I did see the earlier post and replied to it. This was one of the last recordings that Duane Allman performed on prior to his Motorcycle accident. That is not the original first issue cover. The original was a faux pink velevet with a centered picture, very faded, of a naked woman. Unfortunately my copy was lost in a house fire. Very interesting history to a very disturbing album cover.
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