Kanye West's provocative album cover for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was intended to be banned, according to the artist who painted it. George Condo claims his depiction of West and a, er, nude armless angel was requested by the rapper to create controversy.The image features a painting of Kanye "chilling on the couch with my phoenix!" It was not chosen for the actual release, which disappoints West.In the 70s album covers had actual nudity... It's so funny people forget that... Everything has been so commercialised now.
The Beatles, Yesterday and Today
When Capitol released Yesterday and Today, cobbled together from other albums including Revolver and Help! the Fab Four, reportedly outraged that their art was being "butchered", posed for this photo. Capitol released it in June 1966, but faced with rejection by distributors, they had to recall thousands of "Butcher" LPs. Panicked, they rustled up a gloomy and unflattering photo - ever since known as the Trunk Cover - and pasted them over the recalled jackets. In that process, they created one of the holy grails of record collecting.
The Five Keys, On Stage.After this album was released in 1957, Capitol Records reportedly received a bit of heat over the Virginia-based doo-wop stars' cover photograph. The angry complainants imagined that the forefinger (seen far) of lead balladeer, Rudy West, was a penis - and thus a decision was made to airbrush the offending digits out for subsequent issue. |
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