White Heat.

 Anyone who knows me knows I love album covers.

On this one the weather looks hot, the girls look hot and Barry White is HOT.

If it was real and not a set how did he survive in all that polyester. Bless him.

Breakfast in America by Supertramp.

 

New York is my favourite American city and I do love vinyl, so this Supertramp LP cover is simply wonderful. It won best album packaging in 1980.

I have to agree with whomever first noticed it, if you look at the cover in reserve above the Twin Towers the U and P would look like 9/11.

1931 western Fighting Caravan, was it the first mainstream 'gay film' 77 years before Brokeback Mountain.

 

I always believed 'Brokeback Mountain' should have won Best Picture in 2006. Did it lose because it was a film about a gay couple?

Imagine my surprise when I bought a Gary Copper film called 'Fighting Caravans'. Cooper's character is raised by two men and when he wishes to marry, his two 'companions' (as the credits list them) bicker if the young lady is good enough for their boy. It was made in 1931 which was pre Hays Code.

Hot lips.

I remember when black people were mocked for having full lips. Now women spend thousands attempting to have them. This album cover captures the true beauty of our full red lips X three. 

Another one of my favourite album covers.

Before Michael was The Jacksons.

This cover is phenomenal. 

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.

 I think vinyl LP / album covers were works of art. This is one of my favourites. 

SPLAT!

Why do we love leopard print?

I recently watched The Apartment (1964) and had to rewind to see again the amazing hat and tote bag belonging to Mr Sheldrake's secretary. Although the film is in black and white I had a serious case of leopard print envy.

In the film Laura (1944) Laura's sugar daddy admirer is first shown sitting in a bath with a leopard print covered sofa in the background.

In Some like it Hot (1959) I too didn't care for Daphne's (Jack Lemmon) legs, but I loved her/his coat with the face fattering faux (I assume) leopard collar.

Winter is coming and I have a coat which I purchased last year a Pop Boutique in Covent Garden, London which gets me looks of admiration, lots of complements and the odd bitchy female remark (Poor dears).

I have tried to research but have not managed to find any explanation for our love of this particular animal print; why not zebra? I can only assume poor leopard were prized hunters skins and rich society ladies wore mink and leopard to show their wealth which caught on with the office secretary etc.

Remember the recent Cecil the Lion killing? I am not condoning this or any other killing of animals for fun but have come across real leopard hats in vintage stores and was surely tempted.