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1955 John Myers Limited Edition Lithograph Nude Woman $99.00 Time Remaining: 5d 23h 27m Buy It Now for only: $365.00

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1939 Vintage Art Deco FEMALE NUDE By JOHN EVERARD Large Photo Gravure England $87.14 Time Remaining: 7d 16h 16m Buy It Now for only: $87.14

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1939 Vintage Art Deco NUDE Photo Gravure JOHN EVERARD $84.27 Time Remaining: 19d 1h 11m Buy It Now for only: $84.27

1935 Vintage England FEMALE NUDE Woman Photograph Art Deco Decor By JOHN EVERARD $84.19 Time Remaining: 18d 16h 52m Buy It Now for only: $84.19

1954 Original Lithograph Herschel Levit Art Nude Woman Body John Myers Gallery $87.58 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 29m Buy It Now for only: $87.58

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FEMALE NUDE EROTIC ART II LTD ED PRINT by JOHN SILVER $70.55 Time Remaining: 19d 5h 55m Buy It Now for only: $70.55

1935 Vintage England FEMALE NUDE Woman Photograph Art Deco Decor By JOHN EVERARD $79.33 Time Remaining: 11d 21h 16m Buy It Now for only: $79.33

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1935 Vintage Art Deco NUDE Photo Gravure JOHN EVERARD $67.81 Time Remaining: 26d 20h 25m Buy It Now for only: $67.81

1952 Original Lithograph John Marino Stephen Ronay Stage Nude Shoe Design Cloth $71.39 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 29m Buy It Now for only: $71.39

1952 Original Lithograph John Myers Portrait Nude Figure Naked Anatomy Body Art $71.09 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 29m Buy It Now for only: $71.09

1935 Vintage FEMALE NUDE Photo Art Deco By JOHN EVERARD $64.33 Time Remaining: 23d 18h 17m Buy It Now for only: $64.33

1935 Vintage Art Deco FEMALE NUDE Naked Woman Beach Photo Gravure JOHN EVERARD $64.22 Time Remaining: 18d 2h 28m Buy It Now for only: $64.22

1935 Vintage Art Deco NUDE JOHN EVERARD Large 11x9+ $63.52 Time Remaining: 23d 16h 45m Buy It Now for only: $63.52

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1935 Vintage Art Deco NUDE By JOHN EVERARD Big 11x9+ $62.33 Time Remaining: 17d 17h 18m Buy It Now for only: $62.33

1927 Tipped In Print John Raphael Smith Snake Reclining Nude Angel Religious $65.95 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 33m Buy It Now for only: $65.95

1908 Photogravure Artist John Both Landscape Painter Figures Nude Bathing $64.95 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 51m Buy It Now for only: $64.95

1936 Vintage Print FEMALE NUDE Naked Woman COLOR Photo Art Deco By JOHN EVERARD $59.36 Time Remaining: 13d 3h 39m Buy It Now for only: $59.36

1936 Vintage Early COLOR Art Deco NUDE By JOHN EVERARD $59.31 Time Remaining: 1d 5h 3m Buy It Now for only: $59.31

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JOHN RODDAM SPENCER STANHOPE Cupid And Psyche NUDE $57.99 Time Remaining: 10d 6h 32m Buy It Now for only: $57.99

1936 Vintage Early COLOR Art Deco NUDE By JOHN EVERARD $57.12 Time Remaining: 15d 18h 49m Buy It Now for only: $57.12

JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE Study Head Of Echo nude PRINT $55.99 Time Remaining: 10d 6h 33m Buy It Now for only: $55.99

	An Academy (graphite on paper) by John Hamilton Mortimer - Mug - Standard Size Sale Price: $14.50
	Description This mug is created using the finest dye sublimation techniques and creates a stunning dishwasher safe finish. Great as a gift, or for promotional items. Each of our mugs come individually boxed for protection in transit.

	An Academy (graphite on paper) by John.. - 3x2 inch Fridge Magnet - large magnetic button - Magnet Sale Price: $4.99
	Description Rectangular wrap-around refrigerator magnet and a glossy mylar cover.Large 2x3 inch rectangle fridge magnet or 'buttons' as they are sometimes known in the USA.Crop shown is automated for display purposes only...

	An Academy (graphite on paper) by John.. - Tea Towel 100% Cotton - Art247 - Tea Towel - 46x70cm Sale Price: $20.49
	Description 100% Cotton. Made in UK. Size 70cms X 46cmsThis is an automated preview only. Actual Tea Towel design may vary. All products are hand finished by our expert manufacturers and the best crop available will always be selected.

	Coyote Ugly List Price: $6.25 Sale Price: $1.33 You save: $4.92 (79%)
	Description From the hit-making producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Gone In 60 Seconds Armageddon) comes Coyote Ugly the intoxicating sexy comedy starring an unbeatable cast of hot new stars including Piper Perabo (Rocky And Bullwinkle) and Maria Bello (Payback)...

	Baby Boy (Special Edition) List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $3.99 You save: $6.00 (60%)
	Description Director John Singleton returns to the South Central L.A. of "Boyz N the Hood" with this compelling drama about a jobless 20-year-old African-American man (Tyrese Gibson) who has fathered two children with two different women and lives at home with his mother (A...

Let It Be... Naked List Price: $18.98 Sale Price: $10.88 You save: $8.10 (43%)

Description Re-recorded, remixed, overdubbed and repackaged--all before its 1970 American release, mind you--Let It Be has long been the most second-guessed album in the Beatles otherwise sterling catalog. This curious, three-decade-late, stripped-down rethink offers up yet another spin on what started as a back-to-the-roots album/documentary project called Get Back in January, 1969, but ended up as the band's de facto swan song 18 months later...

	Castaway [VHS] List Price: $19.98 Sale Price: $16.11 You save: $3.87 (19%)
	Description True story that started with an executive in London placing an ad for a woman to share a tropical paradise and wedded bliss, dreaming of sexual abandon. Unfortunately his partner doesn't share his dreams.

	At Play in the Fields of the Lord [VHS] Sale Price: $19.98
	Description Missionaries travel to the Brazilian rain forest and make a mess of everything. What else is new? Actually, plenty in this dark but beautifully realized adaptation of Peter Matthiessen's well-regarded novel, directed by Hector Babenco...

	Executioner's Song [VHS] Sale Price: $35.00
	Description Although Gary Gilmore had a pitiful life, it was enough of an American story gone bad to give Normal Mailer a platform for a grand, strange, utterly compelling book: The Executioner's Song, published in 1979...

	John Godward Nudes Ceramic Tile Mural 27 | 18x36 using (18) 6x6 tiles Sale Price: $270.00
	Description We custom make every ceramic Tile Mural one piece at a time. Our staff pay great attention to detail & will work with you in designing your perfect mural. Our murals are used in kitchen back splashes, bathroom shower walls, any indoor wall or outdoor shaded area (no direct sun, but all weather stable)...

Historic and Controversial Album Covers-part One

When CD’s were first introduced in the early 80's, they were the “next best thing” in the music world. Certainly an upgrade from cassette tapes, CD’s conveniently packed the music and artwork into a neat, small package. But one of the major flaws is the lack of cover art you get with a CD, especially when you compare it to the vibrant, lifelike album cover art you get with vinyl records.

In this three part series about album cover art, we will explore some of the most legendary album covers of all time, look at some of the most controversial album covers as well as gauge the impact that major retailers have on cover art. Let’s start with a band that broke the ground for many of their other fellow musicians.

One of the pioneering bands to take advantage of album cover art and its power of marketability were, of course, one of the most famous groups of all time, the “Beatles.” From such famous album covers as “Yesterday and Today” (1966), “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1967) and even including the simplicity of the “White Album”, the Beatles certainly took full advantage of the allure of a great album cover (it didn’t hurt that the music is legendary).

In fact, their album “Yesterday and Today” (also known as the “butcher album”) is highly collectible and, if you have an original, highly priced and is one of the holy grails of record collecting. Although Capitol Records recalled the album, many were released as promotional material to DJ’s and critics. Only then did the uproar ensue. You see, the Beatles were tired of Capitol Records chopping up their albums and repackaging them (the songs on this particular release are album cuts from previous Beatles’ albums including “Help!” and “Revolver”), so they posed with decapitated baby dolls, slabs of meat and fake blood as kind of a quasi protest, not ever thinking it would go out to the public. Capitol Records quickly intervened and recalled thousands of record albums and pasted over the “butcher cover” with what is now known as the “trunk cover” (just a picture of the fab four with a large trunk).

The Beatles also have one of the greatest album covers of all time (it was selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as the best) and the group won a Grammy Award (for Best Album Cover) in 1968 for the legendary album cover for “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Created and designed by Jan Haworth and Peter Blake, the cover features the group posing with a collage of famous singers, composers, comedians and other worldly figures including Lenny Bruce (comic), Edgar Allen Poe (writer), W.C. Fields (comic), Fred Astaire (actor), Bob Dylan (musician), Marlon Brando (actor), Marilyn Monroe (actress) and Karl Marx (philosopher/socialist), among many others.

But there were a few people that were originally intended for the front cover, but were excluded, for a variety of reasons. For instance, Jesus Christ was omitted because the album was released just a few months after John Lennon had declared that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Adolf Hitler was removed at the insistence of Parlophone Records. EMI requested that the image of Mahatma Ghandi be removed fearing his presence on the cover would offend the Indian Market. Legendary actress Mae West initially refused, but relented after the Beatles sent her a personal letter. Additionally, an image of Leo Gorcey was omitted because he had requested a fee for the use of his likeness. (For a complete list of exactly who is on the cover, please visit: http://math.mercyhurst.edu/~griff/sgtpepper/people.html)

Moreover, these two Beatles’ albums exemplify the power of a great album cover (and in the Beatles case, great music). The albums also bring to the forefront the power that record companies have and the restraints that they can utilize to control the overall album cover package. With this in mind, let’s explore some banned and controversial album covers.

One of the most notorious and controversial albums of all time is “Two Virgins,” which was released in 1968 by “John Lennon and Yoko Ono.” On the front cover was a full frontal picture of both, completely nude, and on the back was a nude picture from the behind. Paul McCartney had tried to convince Lennon not to release the cover because of the controversy it would certainly create. In some jurisdictions, the albums were impounded as obscenity and distributors were forced to sell the release in plain brown wrap wrappers. Incidentally, even with this provocative and disturbing cover, the album was not a best seller, as it lacked significant content (it was full of bird noises, tape loops, misplayed organ snippets and other assorted sound effects).

In that same year, “Jimi Hendrix” released “Electric Ladyland,” which featured him with a harem of naked women. The album created massive controversy and was ultimately banned in the U.S. But, it seems that the re-done artwork for the U.K. version did not arrive in time, so Jimi and the girls are available in the U.K. version. The cover was not banned in Europe and import copies of the album have always been the most sought after imported record in the U.S. The album was reissued in the U.S. with a picture of Jimi’s face (minus his ladies of course).

In 1969, the super group “Blind Faith” (members Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood) released their lone album together, appropriately entitled, “Blind Faith.” What wasn’t appropriate was photographer Bob Seidemann’s picture of a topless pre-pubescent girl holding a silver space ship. The album was then reissued with an alternate cover which showed a photograph of the band. According to Seidemann, her fee for the picture was a “young horse” which was purchased for her by Blind Faith’s band manager Robert Stigwood.

In part two of our series, we will again explore some famous and controversial album cover art.

About the Author

Author Robert Benson writes about rock/pop music, vinyl record collecting and operates http://www.collectingvinylrecords.com, where you can pick up a copy of his ebook called
"The Fascinating Hobby Of Vinyl Record Collecting."
Contact Robert at robert@collectingvinylrecords.com