#LP sleeve

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PHOTO: Harry Belafonte and The Islanders - Caribbean! (World Record Club)

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DAF Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft, 1979

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markcu cast as lps 😚

ermm.. if you saw me try to upload this the first time nooo you didn't 😁

"🤓thats not the same species" Clearly... ur not a connoisseur of LPS role play logic ok...

is this too niche.. 😟

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Puccini: Pillangókisasszony

1963, Qualiton, Hungary.

Cover art: Varga Győző

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Dresses remind me of LP!Athy

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1959

[faunandfloraas]

Looking at my joan jett vinyl picture discs and thinking about how any kpop company could make the fattest stacks from vinyl releases

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We Are Lady Parts : Music From Seasons 1 & 2 (2024)

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STILL THE MOST (IN)FAMOUS GEISHA GIRLS IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC.

PIC(S) INFO: (L to R): Spotlight on Kuniko Okamura and Michi Hirota, members of Japan's Red Buddha Theatre/dance company, photographed by American photo-artist Karl Stoecker for glam rock/art rock band SPARKS "Kimono My House" LP sleeve cover art, c. 1974.

MADELINE BOCARO: "Who were the two geishas on the cover, or were they actually guys in drag?"

RUSSELL MAEL: "The two girls were members of a Japanese dance company touring England in 1974. They are women, not men, not Ron, not me. We were very happy that Island Records allowed us not to have the name of the band nor the album title on the front cover. We thought the image alone would speak loudly enough. Try to get a company to go along with that concept today."

SLEEVE ART MINI-OVERVIEW: "The "Kimono My House" album cover, featuring two slightly askew kimono-clad geishas with absolutely no mention of the band at all, has been voted among the best album covers of all time in almost every poll taken. Beck named it again in the November 2001 issue of "Vanity Fair."

Island Records’ Marketing Director Tim Clark fashioned his promotional strategy for Sparks after the one he had implemented with ROXY MUSIC. “The very name SPARKS meant to us that the music would lend itself to a very glossy and arty feel.”  The photographer of Roxy’s glamorous album covers, Karl Stoecker and art director Nicholas de Ville were recruited to create the iconic cover of Kimono My House, though the concept of the goofy geishas was completely Ron Mael’s idea."

PART II: The two garish geishas on the cover of "Kimono My House" with smeared makeup and disheveled hair were the antithesis of Roxy’s classy covers. They laughed in the face of cover art, while at the same time making history as one of its greatest examples! One of them seems to foresee this – with a wink! The chosen cover photo was actually an outtake, shot near the end of the photo session.

It has been voted among the best album covers of all time in almost every poll taken. Beck named it again in the November 2001 issue of "Vanity Fair." The models, Michi Hirota and Kuniko Okamura were from Japan’s Red Buddha Theatre headed by Stomu Yamashta performing in London at the time. The geisha on the right is Michi Hirota, who also provides the memorable abrasive spoken Japanese vocals on the song "It’s No Game (Part 1)" on David Bowie’s "Scary Monsters" album, 1980."

-- MADELINE X (Madeline Bocaro blogspot), "SPARKS’ Iconic Album Cover – "Kimono My House," retrospective, c. 2015

Source: www.madelinex.com/2014/12/25/sparks-iconic-album-cover-kimono-my-house.

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ARTWORK LP: Van McCoy and his Magical Movie Machine (Hugo & Luigi)

This LP contains three Medley's across both sides with a common call out in the intro to each, "Disco Movies...", side Two for example contains a single medley mashing up; Theme from Shaft, Doctor Zhivago and the Magnificent Seven, though perhaps not prolifically nor to my taste, the potential for looping and extending sections has kind of been orchestrated for you.

arr. Van McCoy, 1977. Other musicians include Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Phil Bodner, Urbie Green, Gene Orloff and vocalist Zulema with female soul trio, Faith, Hope & Charity.

Cover Art by Jim O'Connell.

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ex.328

instagram.com/edwincarlcapalla/

[officialbabayaga]

got the 10th anniversary pressing of dive by tycho. pictures really don’t do them justice, the colors are stunning in person

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808 State: Quadrastate

1989, Creed Records, England

Sleeve by Peek Design

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1954

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Liberace Presents Vince Cardell by Jim's Record Barn Via Flickr: Music by Vince Cardell-- Signed on the back cover by Vince with liner notes by Liberace-- (Thanks R. Plante Archives for this one)

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Ensemble designed for Pattie Boyd

The Fool

1967

The Fool were a Dutch design collective led by Marijke Koger and Simon Posthuma, best known for their work with the Beatles, which included designing the tunics the band wore for their 1967 television broadcast of All You Need Is Love, decorating John Lennon's piano and George Harrison's Mini, painting a circular mural at the Harrisons' Surrey home Kinfauns, designing the inner sleeve of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP and, most famously, painting a three-story psychedelic mural on the facade of the Beatles' short lived Apple Boutique in London's Baker Street, which was subsequently painted over by order of the local council. Pattie Boyd and her sister Jenny were fans of the collective and would model their clothing designs for the Apple Boutique. According to Boyd, this brocade ensemble was custom made for her by The Fool and she recalls wearing it during a trip to Greece with all four Beatles in July 1967 to explore the possibility of buying a set of Greek islands.

Christie's: The Pattie Boyd Collection (Lot 13)