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Post by fictionalsounds on Aug 9, 2023 15:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by aftertherain on Aug 10, 2023 7:29:06 GMT -5
Hmm 🤔 not sure if this is totally true ?
20. Duran Duran, ‘Rio’ (1982) Artist Patrick Nagel was commissioned by Duran Duran’s then-manager, Paul Berrow, to create the cover art for the band’s Rio album. The group’s bassist, John Taylor, wrote in his autobiography In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran, that when they received the “massive” “five foot by five foot” canvas, he thought, “there she was, the girl who was dancing on the sand” (a reference to the lyrics of the set’s title track).
I do know that Nagel would have his illustrations featured in the playboy mags and that’s how they came to JTs/DDs attention umm focus
& hence how DD commissioned the artist Nagel to create the RIO LP cover
Maybe it was PB idea after all,
Regardless, how naughty of DD / PB to be lookin thru PBoy mags in the first instance, shame on them 😂
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Post by maddog on Aug 10, 2023 15:58:11 GMT -5
Hmm 🤔 not sure if this is totally true ? 20. Duran Duran, ‘Rio’ (1982) Artist Patrick Nagel was commissioned by Duran Duran’s then-manager, Paul Berrow, to create the cover art for the band’s Rio album. The group’s bassist, John Taylor, wrote in his autobiography In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran, that when they received the “massive” “five foot by five foot” canvas, he thought, “there she was, the girl who was dancing on the sand” (a reference to the lyrics of the set’s title track). I do know that Nagel would have his illustrations featured in the playboy mags and that’s how they came to JTs/DDs attention umm focus & hence how DD commissioned the artist Nagel to create the RIO LP cover Maybe it was PB idea after all, Regardless, how naughty of DD / PB to be lookin thru PBoy mags in the first instance, shame on them 😂 It doesn't say it was PB idea but that he commissioned it which I'm sure he did. Would've been weird at that point for a band member to commission art for an album cover.
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Post by tfranson on Aug 11, 2023 18:37:28 GMT -5
Nick stole the painting from Berrow’s office if I remember correctly. He does have it that’s for sure, he showed it off in a documentary somewhere.
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Post by tfranson on Aug 11, 2023 18:43:09 GMT -5
I just looked at the whole list. Rio should be MUCH higher up. Some of those a dreadful covers.
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Post by vmanoover on Aug 11, 2023 18:48:49 GMT -5
Nick stole the painting from Berrow’s office if I remember correctly. He does have it that’s for sure, he showed it off in a documentary somewhere. John recounts the story of them stealing it in his book too.
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Post by andre005 on Apr 26, 2024 21:57:52 GMT -5
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