The Who - The Kids Are Alright (1979, Polydor Records/UK and MCA Records/USA)
The location for the cover of The Who's soundtack to the 1979 documentary The Kids Are Alright is 116th Street and Morningside Drive, Morningside Heights, New York City. The site is part of the Carl Schurz Monument. Cover photo: Art Kane |
West Side Story - Original Broadway Musical Soundtrack (1957, Sony Music Entertainment)
Here's the cover of West Side Story, the 1957 Leonard Bernstein musical, superimposed on the street as it looks tonight, tonight. It's taken in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Cover photo: Leo Friedman. |
Pink Floyd - Animals (1977, Harvest/EMI Records)
The album cover is a photograph of the Battersea Power Station which is now decomissioned. It is on the south shore of the Thames River in the southwest of London. Here is the view from where Savona Street meets Battersea Park Road in Battersea via Google Street View. Cover photo and design by Hipgnosis |
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) (1972, RCA Records)
The Ziggy Stardust photo was taken outside of 23 Heddon Street, a small, block-long, dead end street in central London, just west of Carnaby street. Cover photo by Brian Ward; art work by Terry Pastor of Main Artery |
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