A good banana

[Eichhörnchen]

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...

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/

[vienna]

IIRC, the working zipper was only available on a limited number of the original albums because of the expense of manufacturing the covers, as well as the problems with censorship and packaging (no pun intended) problems caused by the metal zippers; they caused damage to the albums themselves, as well as to albums shipped or stored in front or behind the Stones album...

I do recall not a few of my girlfriends and lady friends being somewhat very captivated by the zipper when they saw my copy of the album...







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