Die Drones sind eine Band, die an mir vorbeikam, obwohl ich zu der Zeit in Manchester lebte, als sie - wie viele andere - Heavy Rock für Punk versteinerten. Aber ich bewunderte ihr Debütalbum mit dem, was oft als 'das blaue Mädchen' bezeichnet wird, und habe mir eine Kopie von einer Wandanzeige in einem der lokalen Plattenläden angestachelt. Details sind schwer zu finden; die Fotos auf Vorder- und Rückseite stammen von Peter Higgins, dessen Beiträge zu Plattencovern recht begrenzt waren, während das Cover-Design von Ross J. Waters stammt, seinem einzigen Punkshirt unter einer Auswahl von MOR-Veröffentlichungen, viele für Music for Pleasure.

• Bildanbieter: Simon Robinson / Easy On The Eye / Alamy Stock Foto
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• Format: 3659 x 3858 px | 31 x 32,7 cm | 12,2 x 12,9 inches | 300dpi
• Aufnahmedatum: 29. August 2021

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The Drones Further Temptations. Manchester punk rock group's debut album. The Drones are a band who passed me by even though I was living in Manchester at the time they - like quite a few others - ditched heavy rock for punk. But I did admire their debut album sleeve with what is often referred to as 'the blue girl', and nicked myself a copy from a wall display in one of the local record shops. Details are hard to come by; the photographs front and back were by Peter Higgins whose contributions to record covers were quite limited, while the cover design was by Ross J. Waters, his only punk sleeve amongst a selection of MOR releases, many for Music For Pleasure, with art direction credited Joe McGillicuddy at Roc Advertising. Based in London Roc did a couple of dozen also-ran sleeves over the first half of the Seventies, but came good on a few including a rare early Vertigo cover for Freedom and perhaps their best known, Be Bop Deluxe's Modern Music for Harvest. The back cover photo was done in London, although Manchester did have it's own collection of seedy 'adult' shops back then (one of which I recall had a back room full of bootleg vinyl!). The cover model is not identified but the front is a studio shoot. Turning the model upside down gives an unsettling effect and it has been cropped really well, while the angled look is complimented by setting the titles at 22.5 degrees. That it worked nicely is shown by a comeback album from 1999 called Sorted, which rotated the cover photo to a more regular portrait format and looks completely wrong.

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