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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13ROCK-'N'-ROLL COVER-UP
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- By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by David Ellis
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- Last week's hubbub over the nude statues on the cover of
- David Bowie's latest album (see PEOPLE) is in step with rock's
- tradition of provocative packaging:
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- CHOPPING BLOCK. Angry because some songs were cut from the
- U.S. versions of previous albums, the Beatles posed for
- Yesterday and Today in butcher's smocks with pieces of meat.
- Capitol Records pasted a different photo over the cover.
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- TWO REVEALING. John Lennon and Yoko Ono posed nude for the
- album Two Virgins, thus earning it a plain brown wrapper.
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- SECULAR SOUNDS. Fearing a Fundamentalist backlash,
- Columbia changed the title of Nick Lowe's 1978 Jesus of Cool
- album to Pure Pop for Now People.
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- MISOGYNIST MESSAGE. The 1987 Guns N' Roses debut album
- portrayed a battered woman with her panties around her ankles.
- After protests, the artwork was changed.
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- ANATOMICALLY CORRECT. Last year the band Jane's Addiction
- initially released Ritual de lo Habitual with nude dolls
- cavorting on the cover but changed to a blank white album with
- a quote from the First Amendment.
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