#KarlStoecker

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"TAKE ME ON A ROLLER COASTER, TAKE ME FOR AN AIRPLANE RIDE..." -- TO JAPAN.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a Japanese pressing of the "Virginia Plain"/"Pyjamarama" 7 inch 45 rpm vinyl single by English glam rock/art pop band ROXY MUSIC, released under the UK's Island label in 1974.

Sleeve photo by Karl Stoeker, lyrics/sleeve concept by Bryan Ferry.

Source: www.discogs.com/release/17269219-Roxy-Music-Virginia-Plain-Pyjamarama.

[misspeelpants]

Gala Mitchell in Antony Price. Photographed by Karl Stoecker, c.1972. #galamitchell #antonyprice #karlstoecker #1970s

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE CLOTHES WE WERE WEARING AT THAT TIME WOULD HAVE PUT OFF QUITE A LARGE CHUNK OF PEOPLE."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a quiffed-up Bryan Ferry, singer-songwriter of English glam rock/art pop band ROXY MUSIC, as he appeared inside the gatefold to their 1972 self-titled debut LP. 📸: Karl Stoecker.

“The clothes we were wearing at that time would have put off quite a large chunk of people. What I liked about the American bands, the Stax label and Motown, they were into presentation and show business, mohair suits, quite slick. And the cover art, I thought of all the American pop culture icons, Marilyn Monroe: selling cigarettes or beer with a glamorous image. But it was a bit off-kilter as well; there was something a bit strange about it, futuristic as well as retro. All that, instead of a picture of the band, in a dreary street, looking rather sullen. Which was the norm.”

-- BRYAN FERRY to the Guardian, "Bryan Ferry on how ROXY MUSIC invented art pop: "We were game for anything," February 2018

Source: www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/01/bryan-ferry-roxy-music-invented-new-pop-game-for-anything.