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"Although a fan of Led Zeppelin, Stefan [Gates] confesses he has never listened to Houses Of The Holy, which was released in 1973. 'It carries too much significance for me,' he said. 'A part of me wants to go out to the Giant's Causeway with a big pair of speakers,
strip naked and play it just to see if I have some kind of great epiphany
.'" Gates, a well-known British food writer and television presenter was, with his older sister,
one of the children photographed
for
the album cover
which features them naked and
covered in automobile paint
, climbing over the
Giant's Causeway
in Northern Ireland.
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posted by
jessamyn
on Jul 25, 2010 -
47 comments
The art of Hipgnosis
defined the
look of album covers
during the 'classic rock' period. The first work of lead designer Storm Thorgerson was Pink Floyd's
A Saucerful Of Secrets
. Other familiar works include Led Zeppelin's
Houses Of The Holy
and Montrose's infamous
Jump On It
(marginally NSFW). I discovered these galleries while trying to pin down the identity of #3 in this week's entry of Stylus Magazine's
Album Art Challenge
. [via
Owl-Stretching Time
]
posted by
mischief
on Apr 6, 2005 -
15 comments
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