I'm not sure if the curved black background is a person's shoulder or not. You can see a knife blade handle jutting in from the left. In order for you to see it better I played with the lighting in Photoshop.Īnd in this I isolated the skull and straightened it up. You can see more of his work and purchase photos there. This is the address for Billy Name's website:. The skull was found on early printings of the album cover. The skull was photographed by Billy Name, a photographer associated with the Warhol factory. Here's another view of the skull, from an album on Ebay. But if you saw the cover lit at a certain angle, you could see that there was a photo of a pirate-like tattoo printed on the cover in black ink. This is the front cover of the Velvet Underground's second album: White Light/White Heat. ( see or purchase their photos at and )Īnd here is shot of the right inner sleeve of the album.Īlbum Title: White Light, White Heat, Verve Records, 1968 The liner photos are by Nat Finkelstein and Billy Name. This is s shot of the left inner sleeve of the album. A legal dispute as to the use of the man's image led to the record company covering that part of the picture in later printings of the cover. If you look in back of Lou Reed's head there is a larger picture of a man's head. I am not sure of which venue the photo were taken (but check back). This is a photo of the back cover of "the banana" album. (Later, Warhol would produce a similar cover for Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones containing a 3-d zipper that could be unzipped to reveal a waist-view of man wearing white underpants. In the original first pressing of the album, under the words "PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE": one could peel off the the bright yellow banana sticker to reveal a pink ( almost flesh colored (get it?)) banana inside.Ī year after the album's release, when it began too take too much time to hand attach the stickers, the sticker was replaced by a photograph. This is the front cover of the Velvet Underground's first album. To be notified of new PopSpots entries, follow PopSpotsNYC on Twitter:įor questions or comments you can email me (Bob)Īlbum: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO, Verve Records, 1967
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