Album Cover Models Then and Now – Smashing Pumpkins, 'Siamese Dream'
Then: The cover of Smashing Pumpkins' best-selling 'Siamese Dream' album features two girls pressed together on the cover, so close they could be conjoined. The photo was taken specifically for the...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – Smashing Pumpkins, 'Siamese Dream' [NOW]
Now: There was some confusion when frontman Billy Corgan tweeted that their current bass player was one of the girls on the cover. This had to either have been a publicity stunt or a hoax, because...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – Led Zeppelin, 'Houses of the Holy' [NOW]
Now: Samantha Gates, now 46, lives with her husband and daughter Tallulah in Cape Town but the real star of the family turned out to be her younger brother. Stefan is now a cooking show celebrity, most...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – Led Zeppelin, 'Houses of the Holy'
Then: The six children pictured on the cover are actually from a collage of multiple photos of the siblings Stefan and Samantha Gates who were just 5 and 7 years old at the 10 day photo shoot at the...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – Korn, 'Korn'
Then: Justine Ferrara was just 6 years old during the shoot for Korn’s self-titled debut. Her uncle Paul Pontius who had signed the band to Immortal/Epic Records was the one to ask her to be in the...
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Now: Ferrara graduated from New York University in 2009 and majored in communications. She says she does not like listening to Korn but that she hopes to work in the music industry someday. Continue...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – The Rolling Stones, 'Sticky Fingers'
Then: Though it's up for debate exactly whose jean-clad crotch is featured on The Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' album, it is most likely that of Joe Dallesandro who was an associate of Andy War...
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Now: Dallesandro, who identifies himself as bisexual, is a grandfather and manages a hotel in Hollywood with his third wife and cat. Continue reading…
View ArticleAlbum Cover Stars Then and Now – Violent Femmes, 'Violent Femmes'
Then: Billie Jo Campbell was three-years-old when a photographer approached her and her mother on the streets of LA asking her to participate in an album photoshoot. Campbell says her mom was "a free...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Stars Then and Now – Violent Femmes, 'Violent Femmes' [NOW]
Now: Billie Jo Campbell is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She lives in Los Angeles and works with her mother for their women's casual wear company. She's a Violent Femmes fan and...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – The Arctic Monkeys, 'Whatever People Say I...
Now: Chris McClure (center), now 25, is the frontman and lead singer of the Sheffield, UK band The Violet May. He is busy touring, performing, and releasing new music. There were rumors that Continue...
View ArticleAlbum Cover Models Then and Now – The Arctic Monkeys, 'Whatever People Say I...
Then: Chris McClure was just a 19-year-old and a friend of the Arctic Monkeys when the band gave him, his cousin and a best friend money to spend on drinking and a night out. The photo of McClure...
View ArticleThe Castle of Fu Manchu – The Worst VHS Covers
It's hard not to feel racist just looking at this cover. Added to the fact that it's supposed to be Christopher Lee in yellow face, he doesn't even look Chinese. Or threatening for that matter. He...
View ArticleDaffy Duck – The Worst VHS Covers
Okay, we all grew up with Daffy Duck and this is not Daffy Duck. Maybe some weird foreign knock-off you see in Chinatown; Doffy Duck perhaps? There's so much ugliness to this cover. "Daffy's" feet...
View ArticleMarley Shelton —'The Sandlot' Kids Then And Now
Then: Marley Shelton played lifeguard and ideal Southern California beauty Wendy Peffercorn. Shelton had made her film debut two years earlier in the drama 'Grand Canyon.' Continue reading…
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