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- <text id=91TT1859>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: Rock-'n'-Roll Cover-Up
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Rock-'N'-Roll Cover-Up
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- <p>By Sidney Urquhart/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> 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:
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> TWO REVEALING. John Lennon and Yoko Ono posed nude for the
- album Two Virgins, thus earning it a plain brown wrapper.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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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- </body></article>
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