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Every month, we will add a new fun fact to this section of our site. If you are interested in the art of the album cover, you will love this and if you have a fact of your own, please send it to us and we will display it!

July 2002

Question: What is the name of the building on the cover of Pink Floyd's The Division Bell (as seen in the "mouth")?
Answer: Ely Cathedral, which is close to Cambridge, home town of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour.

August 2002

Question:Who did the watercolor illustration on the cover of The Cars "Candy-o"?
Answer:The famous illustrator Alberto Vargas who created "The Vargas Girl", an American icon carried to all corners of the globe by GI's in World War II.

September 2002

Question:Is it a dog or a mop on the cover of Beck's 1996 album "Odelay"?
Answer:It's a dog! (A Komondor or a Hungarian sheep dog)

October 2002

Question:What is unusual about the 1968 album by The Small Faces "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake"?
Answer:It was round, which created lots of problems for record stores since it kept rolling off the shelves! (This of course would pose no problem for our album frames!)

November 2002

Question:Where was the photo on the cover of Elvis Presley's first album taken?
Answer:The photo was taken by William S. Randolph at a performance in Tampa, Florida in July of 1955.

December 2002

Question:What is the band of paper called on the 1973 Led Zeppelin album "Houses of the Holy" (among others)?
Answer:It is an "Obi", a Japanese kimono sash. This one served 2 purposes. One, to allow the album to have no lettering on it (the title of the album was written on the Obi). Two, to hide the naked behinds of the children on the cover.

January 2003

Question:What artist inspired Joni Mitchell's 1995 album cover "Turbulent Indigo"?
Answer:Vincent Van Gogh's "Self Portrait With Bandaged Ear". Joni Mitchell painted the album cover painting with herself as Vincent.

February 2003

Question:Who is the painting of on the cover of Happy Mondays 1988 album "Bummed"?
Answer:Shaun Ryder, the band's lead singer.

March 2003

Question:Who created the famous album cover "Sticky Fingers" by The Rolling Stones?
Answer:The 1971 album cover (with the working zipper on the front of the album) was conceived and photographed by Andy Warhol.

Extra credit: Who was wearing the jeans in the photo?
Answer: NOT Mick Jagger... Jay or Jed Johnson was the model. (Depending on where you get your information!)

Extra, Extra credit: What do you see when you lower the zipper? (Come on, admit it. You looked!)
Answer: Underwear.

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