Would love to know what Dave Grohl said when he found out.
And best not mention Houses of the Holy
Although the album was originally released with the nudity intact, Atlantic Records were allowed to add a wrap-around paper title band to US and UK copies of the sleeve that had to be broken or slid off to access the record. This hid the children's buttocks from the general display, but still, the album was either banned or unavailable in some parts of the Southern United States for several years. On subsequent [releases?] the cover covered one of the naked children's buttocks with the "Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy" text printed on a white background. The buttocks were later airbrushed out.
Just as well the cover model for Blind Faith's self-titled album hasn't sued anyone (AFAIK), because the BBC would cack themselves over showing that album cover.
Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 August, 2021, 12:06:03 pmWould love to know what Dave Grohl said when he found out.Oh well, whatever, never mind?
Quote from: spesh on 25 August, 2021, 12:50:57 pmJust as well the cover model for Blind Faith's self-titled album hasn't sued anyone (AFAIK), because the BBC would cack themselves over showing that album cover. Rumours that she got a pony (as in a small horse, not £25) out of it are apparently untrue.
"Stanley Mouse (Miller), my close friend and one of the five originators of psychedelic art in San Francisco was holed up at the flat. He helped me make a layout and we headed out to meet with the girl's parents. It was a Mayfair address. This was a swank part of town, class in the English sense of the word. Mouse and I made our presentation, I told my story, the parents agreed. The girl on the tube train would not be the one, she was shy, she had just passed the point of complete innocence and could not pose. Her younger sister had been saying the whole time, "Oh Mommy, Mommy, I want to do it, I want to do it." She was glorious sunshine. Botticelli's angel, the picture of innocence, a face which in a brief time could launch a thousand space ships. We asked her what her fee should be for modeling, she said a young horse. [Blind Faith manager Robert ] Stigwood bought one for her."
[Mariora] Goschen recalled that she was coerced into posing for the picture. "My sister said, ‘They’ll give you a young horse. Do it!’" She was instead paid £40.
