Hard to believe, the original cover of The Stones´ "Sticky Fingers" - the one with the zip, see "Times change" - was banned in Spain. It was 1971 and my guess is the censors deemed it too "sexually explicit". So the album was released with a different cover that, in my opinion, was far more shocking and gorey than the original, but hey! It was Franco´s Spain, and when it came to censorship and control, it seems political violence & killings were peanuts in comparison with the devastation a picture showing a crotch (in jeans) could unleash on public morale.
Years ago I went with a friend to an LP fair, and we bumped on the original Spanish cover. It cost 3.000 pesetas (18€), a fortune for any teenager back then. Knowing it was out of his grasp, my friend spent some minutes lovingly caressing and beholding the LP in awe. I will never forget the sad look on his face. Displaying it here is but a small consolation, but it goes for you mate.
I think I saw that boy the other day.
He´s really glad with the post. Now he´s able to spend the money on several LP fairs, He just misses some guy to go to those fairs with him.
He told me about a Kiss album, Alive…something. He would like to thank you for the post and for a lot of things in the last decade….Maybe he´s in need of his own blog to write?
Comment by MANU — April 27, 2007 @ 6:47 am