From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #873 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, October 20 2014 Volume 15 : Number 873 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Avonmore cover [Andrew Shearer ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:18:29 +0000 From: Andrew Shearer Subject: RE: [AVALON] Avonmore cover It just occurred to me... I wonder if the same choices would have been made if Simon Puxley had still been around. Andrew www.andrewshearer.com Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic > From: shearerandrew@hotmail.com > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: RE: [AVALON] Avonmore cover > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:00:37 +0000 > > Indeed. I think there might be the hope that we'll all be thinking, as someone > put on Facebook yesterday, "Oooh, hasn't he aged well"! *shakes head* > > Having said that, a similar thing was done for Frantic. I remember the > Jonathan Ross Radio Show interview where JR said, "Look at the cover, you > haven't aged at all." And BF didn't add any info about when the photos were > taken (Boys and Girls era I think - about 20 years before?). > > I guess that's his prerogative, but it might also be a clue to his psyche / > mindset and a lack of "new material", though I also suspect he's leaving some > of the non-music stuff for his boys / management to deal with. Who knows, > maybe it's just a question of taste, though I thought the Dylanesque cover > didn't quite cut it either. It's a bit ironic, when you just look back at some > of the iconic covers, everyone a hit and contemporary until Mamouna really and > now we're recycling 40 year-old pics. > > If I look at Leonard Cohen's latest album pics, the old git (sic) still looks > cool to my eyes. And indeed, even now, Ferry still looks cool, so the old pic > choice is a bit bizarre. BTW did you know Pat Leonard (Bete Noire) features > predominantly on the latest LC album? (I haven't heard it, no idea if it's any > good.) > > I think the best album cover, considering what is now on offer, would be the > ripped-up passport story one. > > > > > > Andrew > > > www.andrewshearer.com > Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic > > > > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:23:43 +0100 > > From: roxyrama@yahoo.co.uk > > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avonmore cover > > To: jimbo@zeelandnet.nl; avalon@smoe.org; kwil632057@aol.com > > > > That photo was taken in 1974. It was used to promote 'Another Time Another > > Place'. > > > > http://bit.ly/1sDdWjZ > > > > > > What has happened to our hero? > > > > Chris > > ________________________________ > > From: Jan van de Vrede > > To: avalon@smoe.org; kwil > > Sent: Monday, 13 October 2014, > > 16:18 > > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avonmore cover > > > > > > very old photo ... > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > From: kwil > > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 > > 1:29 PM > > To: avalon@smoe.org > > Subject: [AVALON] Avonmore cover > > > > He's looking > > young on the cover. I suspect he's been photoshopped. > > http://www.bryanferry.com/avonmore/ > > > > JW > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #873 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest