" - Aubrey "Po" PowellĪlrighty, with Angus’s 67th birthday being today, I finally got around to playing some more of my recent AC/DC cassette purchases, including this circa 1981/82 blue text Back In Black: But nevertheless, for me it went pretty well.
That’s what gives it that surreal, almost painted kind of atmosphere to it.Īnd again, I don’t think these two Australian kids, Angus and Malcolm, really understood it, and in fact they changed the cover later on to something that I would consider a bit more vulgar, a bit more obvious.
So everybody is in sharp focus, yet the composition is as if they were there for real. And it’s absolutely a perfect example of Hipgnosis work where everything is shot front to back, not how the eye sees it. Why don’t we shoot something there and we’ll get a load of characters?” I shot the background there, flew back to England, and we hired a bunch of models and dressed them up in different stuff, outfits, put them in Hipgnosis studios and then created this collage all the way across, as they are standing in front of it. Remember those exposé magazines like National Enquirer, where they used to black out people’s eyes so you wouldn’t know who they were but you did really?” I said, “I’m just down the road from Sunset Strip where there’s sleazy motels. the next day and I said, “Well, why don’t I shoot something in L.A.?” And Storm called me when I got there and said, “I’ve got an idea. They were funny little guys and they started saying, “We need an album cover.” I was going to L.A. "I remember two skinny little Australian guys coming into Hipgnosis’ studio, and I thought, “These guys aren’t going to amount to a hill of beans.” I really did. Hipgnosis' Album Covers From Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin - Rolling Stone It is funny that it looks like a New Wave cover from 1981 (it's re-release), but I could also imagine it being a lost 10CC album cover (who Hipgnosis also did covers for). The album cover was shot in 1976 for the initial European release of DDDDC. But hey, the Angus and Malcolm worked with Aubrey Powell on it - so it's at least band approved. Click to expand.It's a good cover, but not for an AC/DC album.
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