42 years ago, Blind Faith played its first live gig in London's Hyde Park.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iLZXjhI-g
Note the silver space ship on Winwood's keyboard. My fave hippy poster artist, Stanley Mouse, was involved in the production of the controversial album cover. I have a stack of Mouse's work, but stupidly traded my copy of the BF album for something psychedelic to eat four decades ago.
This was big time. It seems though the western world had for lack of a more substantial icon, settled on the rock and roll star as the golden calf of the moment. The record cover had become the place to be seen as an artist.
I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a space ship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. The space ship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/blindfaith/vvcov69.html
Was it really so long ago?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iLZXjhI-g
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