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Originally Posted by vienna
Years ago, a box set of The Velvet Underground's albums, outakes, and demos was released that duplicated the iconic banana cover with the banana having a peel off feature; the cover was one of two high profile art covers Andy Warhol created for LP albums, with the second being The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album for which Warhol created a closeup of a guy (and, no, it is definitely not Jagger, but Warhol never revealed the model's identity) in a pair of jeans with a real, functioning zipper, which created a lot of headaches for the manufacturers and resulted in the album being banned in some stores since, once the zipper was pulled down, there was an interior picture of a model wearing jockey shorts...
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I remember the peel-off banana but not the zipper
Another problematic album sleeve was Roxy Music's "Country Life", which I recall had to be sold in a brown paper wrapper in the US so that pubescent male fans wouldn't be corrupted. Of course they just tore the wrapper off and got down to business:
(CAUTION: naughty content)
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stori...-country-life/