One of the aspects of collating all the information about these albums is for Neil to dig deep into the “well-how-did-they-arrive-at-that-cover.”
One of the more colourful album covers that was in Island’s repertoire then features a pigs head smoking a joint, wearing sunglasses, with headphones on.
Somewhere in Soho, London, there is a butcher who might remember what happened on one creative day in 1969 when a man wearing a kaftan entered his shop and made an odd request… the story behind Ahead Rings Out was revealed to us when Neil quizzed Chrysalis co-founder Chris Wright.
More stories in the pages from Mick Abrahams and Jack Lancaster as well as what Chris Blackwell thought about the cover from earlier this year.
