The 10 Naked Cover Stars

Plenty of album sleeves boast acres of naked flesh, but only a few brave artists have stripped off themselves, blushes Luke Bainbridge

1. Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy
The idea to replicate Manet's Le dÊjeuner sur l'herbe for the cover of Bow Wow Wow's first album proper, with 14-year-old singer Annabella Lwin, came from manager Malcolm McLaren. 'I was still at college when Malcom saw my work and liked the painterly quality of it,' recalls photographer Andy Earl.

2. John & Yoko - Two Virgins
Recorded the night Lennon and Ono consummated their relationship, Unfinished Music, No 1: Two Virgins was almost unlistenable. EMI refused it a release so it came out on the Who's label. In a paper bag. Not the 'bagism' that John and Yoko later promoted. [skipped]

3. Man - Revelation
Swansea may not have been at the epicentre of the Summer of Love, but Man let it all hang out on the cover of their debut album in January 1969. Lead single 'Erotica' was a hit in Europe, but banned in the UK for simulating the sound of an orgasm.

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Taked from The Observer Blog

Added: 26 Apr, 2006

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