Cover Stories

Yeah like I said it's from what I heard. I was looking all over for a source but there is this book by the same name so it's like lookin' for a needle in a haystack (to me).
 
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An unusual situation where an album was released with two different album covers simultaneously.

Thw 2 major football codes in Australia are Australian football and Rugby League. EMI, the company who put together this compilation album thought that if they released the album and featured only one code of football on the cover, the fans of the other code would not buy the CD! So the decision was made to release 2 different covers.

From what I recall, the covers were not restricted to the areas of Australia where each code was popular. I live in a city where Rugby League is the most popular football code, but I was able to purchase the CD with the Australian football cover.
 
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(I'm doing this from memory, so I might have some of the details wrong)


Elliot Landy (who shot promo photos for The Band, Van Morrison, etc.) was commissioned to do the cover shot for Nashville Skyline, Dylan's first "country" album. He handed him George Harrison's (or Johnny Cash's, depending on who tells the story) guitar and took a handful of pictures. The two started goofing off, with Dylan suggesting weird angles and positions. Landy just kept clicking his camera, at one point kneeling down on the ground and shooting up at his subject. That's the shot that made the cover.


Hell, that was more boring and pointless than I thought, but it's the only "cover story" I know. ;)
 
It was done by Michael Spencer Jones who did all of their other covers around that time. I don't think he's known for anything else other than Oasis covers.

I did find this though
On the cover of the album a man is seen brandishing what looks to be a vinyl record in its sleeve. This is in fact the master tape for the album. The man in question is Owen Morris, the producer. The photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, a London street well known for its independent record shops. The other man is BBC London's Sean Rowley.
 
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