When you are riding a train from London to any northern destination you see The Battersea power station 🚉 and until the 90's it was fully intact. It was a fairly ominous structure & now its part of a very hip new neighborhood.
(Suggestions) Nirvana - Nevermind Date: October 28, 1991 Location: Pasadena Aquatic Center....now renamed...Rose Bowl Aquatics Center 360 North Arroyo Blvd, Pasadena, California *hard to tell which pool they used & it's slightly been remodeled since 1991. David Bowie - The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust Date: January (?) 1972 Location: K West Furrier (Fur coat/hat store) now Heddon Street Kitchen restaurant 23 Heddon Street (just off Regent street) London, UK
I'm friends with the baby on the Nirvana album on Facebook. I've never met him, but decided I'd try to friend him and for some reason he accepted it. He doesn't post anything though.
461 Ocean blvd was taken in the backyard just to the right of the swimming pool. You can easily see @1:50 into the vid, that window he's in front of on the cover is the back right side of the house with the green covers over the windows now. The shape of that porch and the windows above it are all still the same. The tree he was on is just gone. The rebuilding of the house didn't change that part at all. Geez. that's one of the easier ones lol.
You can see the interior of the Vista in the 1995 film "Get Shorty," but when they walk outside the theater they're exiting the Aero in Santa Monica. I last went to the Vista to see "The Force Awakens" in 35mm.
The Pink Floyd Animals / Battersea cover from 1977 - one of the most iconic rock album covers ever - was also the biggest photoshop job ever (long before there was such a thing) - and just like the music on that record - it just worked.
Great video! I love the fact that in the movie Children of Men, the Battersea Power Station is featured in it and they've got an inflatable pig floating above it as a nod to the Pink Floyd album, a nice touch.
Something more that I read in a book about Hipgnosis- they wanted the pig in the sky to be real, and they took some shots of it before it broke free, but the sky was clear and boring. They later took some shots of just the power station with a more dramatic sky. After all the trouble, they ended up cutting and pasting the pig into the better sky scene anyway.
Its true i guess, Zeppelin's first album cover some would still say, was Jimmy pages prediction...forshadowing his future with his band. Going down in flames.. I could see the parallels with all the bad karma and eerie thing's that went on with them. Still a cool album cover, simple and cool.
I went reasonably close to Battersea Power Station on a bus in 1985. It still looked the same as the Animals Cover In the UK, we pronounce Z as Zed and not Zee. We still say Zee Zee Top though.
5:04 Great album cover location video, Frank. Regarding the Hindenburg disaster illustrated on the iconic Led Zeppelin cover, I have a 16mm reel of the disaster (B&W, silent) which was probably used in a school for historical educational purposes. There was also a movie made, 'The Hindenburg' (from 1975), which provided an interesting conspiracy-laden take on the disaster and it starred a lot of top actors of that era including George C. Scott, Ann Bancroft, etc. although the movie had very mixed reviews. Still, it captured the luxury and elegance of the airship and featured the original black and white footage which included the infamous "Oh, the humanity!" quote from the reporter covering the disaster as it unfolded before his eyes.
Damn it... when you said Suicidal Tendencies, I was hoping for the location of the How Will I Laugh Tomorrow album cover! Lol. Cool video regardless! 🤘
With stuff like this comng out on a Sunday, no wonder I look forward to your videos. Great job Frank and you have found another topic which can run and run !! So interesting and I love it ! Thank you !!
Thanks Frank, Suicidal Tendencies is one of my favorite bands. "Lights, Camera, Revolution" is the album of theirs that I listen to the most but I've never noticed that the ST is lit up. I love trivia like that.
In 2010 my Army National Guard unit moved to Lakehurst Naval Air Base, which is now apart of Joint Base MDL. The Hindenburg site is just a field with a very small sign.
“But dont tell that to Lars” haha i agree, Robert rules. That Clapton house map thing? Ooooof. What gorgeousness environment wise. Lmao @ porn theatre. Damn. So many lol moments in this. “Zeppelin are no strangers to copyright”. Youre a riot.
The bass players were always the coolest members of Metallica. I hate how they treated Jason. And as far as LZ and copyright issues, Plant use to talk shit about Rick Rubin using drum samples. And then when Rick was producing the first Danzig recorded, they recorded a song called "The Hunter" that sounds oddly familiar.
I love this series you're doing brother this is cool!! Here's a suggestion it may not be your type of music but Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva luckenbach album? Just to see how much luckenbach Texas has changed over the years. I guess you would have to do the second album he did from luckenbach cuz the first one is just a picture of the outhouse...lol
I've seen the Battersea Power Station from a distance while travelling past it on a London Underground tube train, and also I also saw it while visiting The Chelsea Flower Show last year!
I'm going to keep asking for this one until I get it. 😉 The Duck Kee marrket in Oakland, from the cover of Creedence's _Willy and the Poor Boys_ album. Corner of Peralta St. and Hollis St. The market is gone but the building is still there, now called the "Bee Building."
I'm with you that one..to me that is a top ten classic album cover...I remember all the Credence covers from when I was a kid ...I was birn in the 80s but even into the 90s my friends parents still had their record collections. Anyway my best friends mother and father owned a bad ass record player that had like six speakers with it and all those buttons and knobs to turn up each speaker and play around with the sound. My friends mother ended up giving me that record player in 1998 when I turned 18 and Gave me some albums that she had doubles of...willy and poor boys was one of them and Fleetwood Mac rumors was one of them and many more. Sorry for the misspellings I do t have time at the moment to go back and fight with my phone to correct what it autocorrected.
I grew up in Jackson, the town next to Lakehurst. We used to go on school trips to the Naval base all the time. The hangers that were built to hold the airships are still there, as seen in the Google image, they are HUGE!
happy father's day my friend....best to you and the entire family....another great video...interesting what they're doing to battersea...they should turn it into a pink floyd museum...i'd wanna go (after i get back to canada)....peace and places always...rocky
Great research and history, Frank! Thanks! I remember there was a lot of controversy about the first Led Zeppelin album cover, due to the deaths involved with the Hindenburg accident. Shortly before that album came out I remember seeing the film footage of the accident and the impassioned voice over by Herbert Morrison. 'Oh the humanity!" So when I saw that album cover in the store I got a bit of a jolt at the starkly horrifying image.
Wow. I never thought about that. We're so desensitized nowadays by images that have resonated so long in pop culture that we never give it a thought. We see that image on t-shirts, mugs, posters, all kinds of collectibles and probably don't even stop to think about the real tragedy of it since it happened so long ago. Very interesting.
I like this series. Keep 'em comin. I wanna go to the train station at Manassas VA where the Stephen Stills group cover photo was taken. It's my favourite album.
great video man. if you haven't already done them, here are some suggestions: street legal - bob dylan my generation - the who everybody knows this is nowhere - neil young and crazy horse the notorious byrd brothers - the byrds
Hey this is a quirky question but did the farmer get to keep the pig since it landed at his property.. is it finders keepers or did he have to give it back to the band?
Here's one for you. Journeys "raised on radio". Although it's a painting. It's a real place, it's the former KIGS Portuguese radio station along highway 198 between Hanford and Visalia California. Up until about 10 years ago it looked almost exactly like the album cover before they moved to the highway.
As one of the Construction Managers on redeveloping Battersea Power Station, I can tell you that those iconic chimneys were all demolished due to safety concerns, and shorter reproductions built - these are the ones in your modern photograph - hard to tell the difference. Apple Corp. will move into the Power Station when complete along with many Retailers. The surrounding buildings will be predominately residential apartments. A new Underground (subway) will serve the site. A new ‘flying pig’ was made for publicity, I don’t know where it is though. A number of well known people have moved in already.
461 Ocean Blvd. was extensively remodeled, with additions added, which is why it is difficult to recognize today. The cover photo was actually taken behind the house, the ocean side. Today it is the residence of the town's mayor.
Makes me think of the house Jesse lived in on Breaking Bad and how the home owners changed how the house looked since they got sick of people showing up to take photos all day everyday.
@@redzeppelin6 Quite possibly, but I think that the real issue here was that the property values there have climbed considerably over the past nearly 50 years, and later owners wanted to add to the house's value by expanding it. It was a rental when Clapton and other artists stayed there in the '70s. Criteria Studios, which is a short drive away, might have even held it on a retainer for out of town clients working at their studio.
That's surprising re: the 'Animals' cover. I thought the pig was superimposed on the photo. Really strange that they went to all that trouble to construct that balloon!
True story.... when I was growing up in England, I live near the area where the building with the four big chimneys which at the time I didn't know the name of the building until years later anyway whenever I would go to school and back,I would see those big chimneys you would see them from miles.However on one particular day I was walking home It was not a school day I just minding my own business on that day, and I would see the same old building with those chimneys but then I would see something very Odd and strange right between the big chimneys..... was a flying PIG!!! I thought it was the strangest thing I've EVER seen.at the time, I've never heard of pink Floyd until two years later at that time a song called "another brick in the wall"came out and it became a big hit for them but I didn't make the connection between building, that band and especially that flying plastic PIG until two years later when my family moved to America to live with our extend family and getting used to the country, and the area and places like that, I'd be visiting various places,I just happened to walk into a record store that day so I started to just brose around looking into the record rack and would see a bunch of pink Floyd records and to my surprise, I come across one particular album of theirs where the album cover is of that building with the flying pig and I thought "WOUW" what do you know so I looked carefully at the record and found out that the name of the album is called "ANIMALS" and it was originally released in 1977,it was amazing so to this day whenever I would tell someone that I lived across the street from that building that years later I would find out that it's the BATTERSEA POWER building, they would say "wow, that was awesome" I own a copy of that album to this day along with other pink Floyd albums obviously so whenever I look at at that animals album cover it's a constant reminder of that day that saw a flying PIG in the sky!
Try the street where David Bowie stood on the cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The address is 23 Heddon Street, London. It's completely changed and the only thing left that is recognizable is the street lamp on the building outside the door.
I believe the pig was actually pasted on after the fact because they were having weather issues, and the pig broke away. They just took a picture of the station with the best Skyview they could get, and added the pig later. I also read that the entire cover is essentially a collage, because of the weather not producing the exact aesthetic view Roger wanted, therefore pasting the pig and the tower on top of a Skyview. This isn't far off from what hypnosis does anyway, so its possibly true. This was my first exposure to, and favorite record by, Pink Floyd. Got it at a yard sale for 50c around 93. It was in perfect condition and I guess no one was that bothered by records at that time. I was only 12.
That castle you show at the very end in Northern Ireland is also the basis of what they used for Greyjoy's Castle in Game of Thrones (although heavily photoshopped)
1:52 the building on the left with the darker brown roof, chimney on th right is OBVIOUSLY the spot. The curvy palm tree is even visible, as is the sun room area directly behind Eric...Its literally right there. It says 451, but that has got to be the building.
I saw The Force Awakens on 35m at The Vista.
When you are riding a train from London to any northern destination you see The Battersea power station 🚉 and until the 90's it was fully intact. It was a fairly ominous structure & now its part of a very hip new neighborhood.
I saw Battersea station every time the Shepperton train approached Waterloo, looking right near Vauxhall.
I was always fascinated by the Lego Oxo building just before you see it on the north-bound train at the river. That was 80's and 90's mostly.
(Suggestions)
Nirvana - Nevermind
Date: October 28, 1991
Location: Pasadena Aquatic Center....now renamed...Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
360 North Arroyo Blvd, Pasadena, California
*hard to tell which pool they used & it's slightly been remodeled since 1991.
David Bowie - The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Date: January (?) 1972
Location: K West Furrier (Fur coat/hat store) now Heddon Street Kitchen restaurant
23 Heddon Street (just off Regent street) London, UK
Thanks for the info.
I'm friends with the baby on the Nirvana album on Facebook. I've never met him, but decided I'd try to friend him and for some reason he accepted it. He doesn't post anything though.
461 Ocean blvd was taken in the backyard just to the right of the swimming pool. You can easily see @1:50 into the vid, that window he's in front of on the cover is the back right side of the house with the green covers over the windows now. The shape of that porch and the windows above it are all still the same. The tree he was on is just gone. The rebuilding of the house didn't change that part at all. Geez. that's one of the easier ones lol.
The window spacing looked off but that's because there's hurricane shutters or something on them now. Good eye.
Oh, I see it now. Yeah that’s definitely the location of the photo.
I discovered your channel not long ago and now I'm addicted !!
Thanks SH!
@@Channel33RPM no problem!
You can see the interior of the Vista in the 1995 film "Get Shorty," but when they walk outside the theater they're exiting the Aero in Santa Monica.
I last went to the Vista to see "The Force Awakens" in 35mm.
Very cool. Funny enough I am just watching the movie Stalker as I type this, and they just showed the exterior of the Vista.
And now the Vista was purchased by Quentin Tarantino.
Enjoying the series Frank. Plus, anytime I get to hear more about Suicidal Tendencies the better.
The Pink Floyd Animals / Battersea cover from 1977 - one of the most iconic rock album covers ever - was also the biggest photoshop job ever (long before there was such a thing) - and just like the music on that record - it just worked.
Great video! I love the fact that in the movie Children of Men, the Battersea Power Station is featured in it and they've got an inflatable pig floating above it as a nod to the Pink Floyd album, a nice touch.
Something more that I read in a book about Hipgnosis- they wanted the pig in the sky to be real, and they took some shots of it before it broke free, but the sky was clear and boring. They later took some shots of just the power station with a more dramatic sky. After all the trouble, they ended up cutting and pasting the pig into the better sky scene anyway.
Its true i guess, Zeppelin's first album cover some would still say, was Jimmy pages prediction...forshadowing his future with his band. Going down in flames.. I could see the parallels with all the bad karma and eerie thing's that went on with them. Still a cool album cover, simple and cool.
Hi Frank....great vid...love stuff like this. Good job...thank you. All the best from Newfoundland.
Many thanks! Hope all is well out east.
I went reasonably close to Battersea Power Station on a bus in 1985. It still looked the same as the Animals Cover
In the UK, we pronounce Z as Zed and not Zee. We still say Zee Zee Top though.
Yup. Same as "lieutenant" (lew-tenant) and "leftenant". That one always confused me as a kid. Lol
It still looked like the Animals cover up until about 5 years ago - they wrecked it now with wanky flats.
@@Tmuk2 like so much of London, destroyed by social engineering driven by the moneyed in pursuit of more money.
5:04 Great album cover location video, Frank. Regarding the Hindenburg disaster illustrated on the iconic Led Zeppelin cover, I have a 16mm reel of the disaster (B&W, silent) which was probably used in a school for historical educational purposes.
There was also a movie made, 'The Hindenburg' (from 1975), which provided an interesting conspiracy-laden take on the disaster and it starred a lot of top actors of that era including George C. Scott, Ann Bancroft, etc. although the movie had very mixed reviews. Still, it captured the luxury and elegance of the airship and featured the original black and white footage which included the infamous "Oh, the humanity!" quote from the reporter covering the disaster as it unfolded before his eyes.
Excellent episode Frank outlining the what and where of these iconic album covers.
Thanks James. I hope to do more of these album cover videos.
Damn it... when you said Suicidal Tendencies, I was hoping for the location of the How Will I Laugh Tomorrow album cover! Lol. Cool video regardless! 🤘
That would be a good one too.
Loving this series
Great video again Frank! Keep'm coming.
Oh and Happy Father's day everyone!
Thanks!!! I have been having fun with the these vids. I appreciate you dropping by!
Informative and educational Frank!! 🤘
With stuff like this comng out on a Sunday, no wonder I look forward to your videos. Great job Frank and you have found another topic which can run and run !! So interesting and I love it ! Thank you !!
Glad you enjoyed it Graham! Cheers man.
Thanks for the video,,really enjoyed it.
Great! Now there is A Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd xD
Thanks Frank, Suicidal Tendencies is one of my favorite bands. "Lights, Camera, Revolution" is the album of theirs that I listen to the most but I've never noticed that the ST is lit up. I love trivia like that.
I always thought about stopping in Lakehurst. They supposedly have the outline of where the Hindenburg wreckage was painted on the ground.
Hi Frank. Happy Father's day. This series is so cool. Congrats on your channel and hard work. Greg
Thanks Greg. Cheers man!
In 2010 my Army National Guard unit moved to Lakehurst Naval Air Base, which is now apart of Joint Base MDL. The Hindenburg site is just a field with a very small sign.
I know you're probably hearing this a lot but this is such a cool new series. Well done man.
So cool Frank
I love your videos
Thanks Landon. Glad you dug it.
At 1.51 you can crearly see the spot where Clapton was standing! The upper right corner of the pool.
Frank, I hope you will continue doing the famous album cover locations. So interesting seeing the actual sites today, thanks.
“But dont tell that to Lars” haha i agree, Robert rules. That Clapton house map thing? Ooooof. What gorgeousness environment wise.
Lmao @ porn theatre. Damn. So many lol moments in this. “Zeppelin are no strangers to copyright”. Youre a riot.
Thanks Guru. Glad you liked the video!
The bass players were always the coolest members of Metallica. I hate how they treated Jason.
And as far as LZ and copyright issues, Plant use to talk shit about Rick Rubin using drum samples. And then when Rick was producing the first Danzig recorded, they recorded a song called "The Hunter" that sounds oddly familiar.
I love this series you're doing brother this is cool!! Here's a suggestion it may not be your type of music but Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva luckenbach album? Just to see how much luckenbach Texas has changed over the years. I guess you would have to do the second album he did from luckenbach cuz the first one is just a picture of the outhouse...lol
Woohoo - 2 of my suggestions made it: Battersea and Ocean Blvd.
Fun post ..well done !
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm hooked on these album videos
Happy Father's Day. Awesome show. Thanks!
Thanks Jamie
I've seen the Battersea Power Station from a distance while travelling past it on a London Underground tube train, and also I also saw it while visiting The Chelsea Flower Show last year!
Very cool. I would love to see it someday.
Hay Frank,, excellent episode, appreciate the hard work.👍
Right? Hes putting in the work!
I'm going to keep asking for this one until I get it. 😉 The Duck Kee marrket in Oakland, from the cover of Creedence's _Willy and the Poor Boys_ album. Corner of Peralta St. and Hollis St. The market is gone but the building is still there, now called the "Bee Building."
I'm with you that one..to me that is a top ten classic album cover...I remember all the Credence covers from when I was a kid ...I was birn in the 80s but even into the 90s my friends parents still had their record collections.
Anyway my best friends mother and father owned a bad ass record player that had like six speakers with it and all those buttons and knobs to turn up each speaker and play around with the sound.
My friends mother ended up giving me that record player in 1998 when I turned 18 and Gave me some albums that she had doubles of...willy and poor boys was one of them and Fleetwood Mac rumors was one of them and many more.
Sorry for the misspellings I do t have time at the moment to go back and fight with my phone to correct what it autocorrected.
Crazy deluxe property on the Clapton album!
Keep up the great work, sir.
also: Habs FTW!
These are very cool videos Frank! Thanks for putting some ST in there too.
I grew up in Jackson, the town next to Lakehurst. We used to go on school trips to the Naval base all the time. The hangers that were built to hold the airships are still there, as seen in the Google image, they are HUGE!
Love these location videos Frank!
Awesome, thanks. I hope to do another in July.
happy father's day my friend....best to you and the entire family....another great video...interesting what they're doing to battersea...they should turn it into a pink floyd museum...i'd wanna go (after i get back to canada)....peace and places always...rocky
Thank you Rocky. I would love to see Battersea someday too. This stupid pandemic has be longing to travel. Hopefully soon. Cheers man.
Good series!! You tha man Frank!!!!!
Top notch episode. Thanks Frank for spreading t love for music 🙂
Great series, Frank; really enjoying it and hope you continue with it.
if you did division bell by pink floyd next, it would be amazing!!! rock n' roll forever!!1
Can't tell your how much I enjoy these. Thanks for all the research, bet it was time consuming. What about the cover of Rock and roll by John Lennon?
Thanks! I'll add that one to the list of potential.
I tried to get to Battersea PowerStation, but there's no easy way to that section of town.
Keep these up, Frank! I really enjoy these type of videos!
Great series man, keep up the good work. Looking forward to your next episode already!
Thanks a ton!
Love these videos !!! Frank your doing amazing!!
Love this series
I love this series, awesome job, thanks!
Need more of these videos!
Great research and history, Frank! Thanks!
I remember there was a lot of controversy about the first Led Zeppelin album cover, due to the deaths involved with the Hindenburg accident. Shortly before that album came out I remember seeing the film footage of the accident and the impassioned voice over by Herbert Morrison. 'Oh the humanity!" So when I saw that album cover in the store I got a bit of a jolt at the starkly horrifying image.
Wow. I never thought about that. We're so desensitized nowadays by images that have resonated so long in pop culture that we never give it a thought. We see that image on t-shirts, mugs, posters, all kinds of collectibles and probably don't even stop to think about the real tragedy of it since it happened so long ago. Very interesting.
Rad bro great video
Appreciate it. Cheers!
I like this series. Keep 'em comin. I wanna go to the train station at Manassas VA where the Stephen Stills group cover photo was taken. It's my favourite album.
Another good one! Happy father's day also!
Love this video! Maybe an idea to take suggestions?
Of course, always looking for suggestions.
great video man. if you haven't already done them, here are some suggestions:
street legal - bob dylan
my generation - the who
everybody knows this is nowhere - neil young and crazy horse
the notorious byrd brothers - the byrds
Dude you could make like a hundred of these album cover/real location videos and I would keep watching them.
Thanks Dennis
I grew up 3miles/ 5k away from Hindenburg disaster location. While in HS I passed this location daily when worked on the base in the navy mess hall.
Hey this is a quirky question but did the farmer get to keep the pig since it landed at his property.. is it finders keepers or did he have to give it back to the band?
The story I heard is...Someone found it and tried to keep it, but when the band found out, they demanded its return.
Not just not how Rush says “Zed”, the entire country of Canada does (and every other British Commonwealth country). “Zee” is an American thing.
Weird. I'm Canadian and say ususlly say zee...
Awesome video!
Here's one for you. Journeys "raised on radio". Although it's a painting. It's a real place, it's the former KIGS Portuguese radio station along highway 198 between Hanford and Visalia California. Up until about 10 years ago it looked almost exactly like the album cover before they moved to the highway.
As one of the Construction Managers on redeveloping Battersea Power Station, I can tell you that those iconic chimneys were all demolished due to safety concerns, and shorter reproductions built - these are the ones in your modern photograph - hard to tell the difference. Apple Corp. will move into the Power Station when complete along with many Retailers. The surrounding buildings will be predominately residential apartments. A new Underground (subway) will serve the site. A new ‘flying pig’ was made for publicity, I don’t know where it is though. A number of well known people have moved in already.
Thanks for the info!
Fun stuff. Love to see more of these!
Hopefully another one in July. Thanks for watching.
A couple of suggestions
“Morningrise” by Opeth
“Phenomenon” by UFO
“Sin after Sin” by Judas Priest
I agree with these suggestions
These are great videos. Some Allman Bros have some cool iconic location album art if you're lookin for suggestions. Great series!
Love this video series Frank!
461 Ocean Blvd. was extensively remodeled, with additions added, which is why it is difficult to recognize today. The cover photo was actually taken behind the house, the ocean side. Today it is the residence of the town's mayor.
Good info. Thanks!
Makes me think of the house Jesse lived in on Breaking Bad and how the home owners changed how the house looked since they got sick of people showing up to take photos all day everyday.
@@redzeppelin6 Quite possibly, but I think that the real issue here was that the property values there have climbed considerably over the past nearly 50 years, and later owners wanted to add to the house's value by expanding it. It was a rental when Clapton and other artists stayed there in the '70s. Criteria Studios, which is a short drive away, might have even held it on a retainer for out of town clients working at their studio.
There is a deluxe edition of Animals upcoming. Maybe they can incorporate the current image.
That's surprising re: the 'Animals' cover. I thought the pig was superimposed on the photo. Really strange that they went to all that trouble to construct that balloon!
I think it was superimposed, after they couldn't quite get it the way they wanted it
Aha, you used my Led Zeppelin suggestion, cool!
The Battersea...look how they massacred my boy.
enjoyed it...Memphis, TN
Animals is my favorite floyed album made me click this video
Glad you did!
True story.... when I was growing up in England, I live near the area where the building with the four big chimneys which at the time I didn't know the name of the building until years later anyway whenever I would go to school and back,I would see those big chimneys you would see them from miles.However on one particular day I was walking home It was not a school day I just minding my own business on that day, and I would see the same old building with those chimneys but then I would see something very Odd and strange right between the big chimneys..... was a flying PIG!!! I thought it was the strangest thing I've EVER seen.at the time, I've never heard of pink Floyd until two years later at that time a song called "another brick in the wall"came out and it became a big hit for them but I didn't make the connection between building, that band and especially that flying plastic PIG until two years later when my family moved to America to live with our extend family and getting used to the country, and the area and places like that, I'd be visiting various places,I just happened to walk into a record store that day so I started to just brose around looking into the record rack and would see a bunch of pink Floyd records and to my surprise, I come across one particular album of theirs where the album cover is of that building with the flying pig and I thought "WOUW" what do you know so I looked carefully at the record and found out that the name of the album is called "ANIMALS" and it was originally released in 1977,it was amazing so to this day whenever I would tell someone that I lived across the street from that building that years later I would find out that it's the BATTERSEA POWER building, they would say "wow, that was awesome" I own a copy of that album to this day along with other pink Floyd albums obviously so whenever I look at at that animals album cover it's a constant reminder of that day that saw a flying PIG in the sky!
This was an education at its best , thanks so much Frank for this vid. Who said that pigs can't fly. 🇬🇧 with love from across the pond 🇨🇦
Thanks Darren
"Zeppelin are no strangers to copyright" should be printed on a T-shirt , another great video you've put out.
Don't mention "Stairway to Gilligan's Island" to Jimmy Page. The song made him mad as hell.
@@BakedRBeans LOL I'd never heard of that , just looked it up ,I'll never hear Stairway to Heaven the same way again .
Try the street where David Bowie stood on the cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The address is 23 Heddon Street, London. It's completely changed and the only thing left that is recognizable is the street lamp on the building outside the door.
I was considering that one for this video, but passed for the reasons you noted. That said, may still be interesting!
I believe the pig was actually pasted on after the fact because they were having weather issues, and the pig broke away. They just took a picture of the station with the best Skyview they could get, and added the pig later.
I also read that the entire cover is essentially a collage, because of the weather not producing the exact aesthetic view Roger wanted, therefore pasting the pig and the tower on top of a Skyview. This isn't far off from what hypnosis does anyway, so its possibly true.
This was my first exposure to, and favorite record by, Pink Floyd. Got it at a yard sale for 50c around 93. It was in perfect condition and I guess no one was that bothered by records at that time. I was only 12.
Suggestions: Moonflower by Santana, Warning by Green Day, Little Queen by Heart, and The Joshua Tree by U2
yes this is an entertaining channel, good stuff
The Canadian English alphabet must take some space on class room walls, A-eh, B-bee, C-see, D-dee, E-eee, F-eph ….. ending in Z-zed.
Hahaha touche
Have a look at XTC - English Settlement
location: Uffington White horse (near Swindon, where the band are from) . England U.K
That castle you show at the very end in Northern Ireland is also the basis of what they used for Greyjoy's Castle in Game of Thrones (although heavily photoshopped)
Whaaaa?! Seriously??
@@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 yeah hahaa Pyke castle in the show but Dunluce Castle in real life. Just a small drive from the Dark Hedges too
You should check out the creepy cover of BÖC Imaginos, one of m'y fav backstory of an album cover of all time
In the description it says 361, it's 461 Ocean Blvd. Just a mistake I'm sure.
Thank you. Fixed it.
1:52 the building on the left with the darker brown roof, chimney on th right is OBVIOUSLY the spot. The curvy palm tree is even visible, as is the sun room area directly behind Eric...Its literally right there. It says 451, but that has got to be the building.
I love this series of videos. Can you point out where the cover of Foghat's "Fool For The City" was taken?
Also yeah zed is canadian zee is American
I'm Canadian and I usually say zee :) ... But Camero Zed 28 sounds better than Zee 28.
Watch Judas Priest's 1982 video of "You've Got Another Thing Comin'"..also shot at Battersea.
Thanks George. I must have seen that video a hundred times as a kid, but I never put 2 and 2 together. I appreciate the info!
Keep on doing great work. Don’t worry about mistakes.
mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)
Thank you! 😃
I aint fooled Horatio.
Some other iconic covers worth following up on
At Filmore East
Pronounced Leh Nerd Skin Nerd
Auto American (Blondie)
*Encore Frank 🤟🏻 Encore Frank 🤟🏻*
Please 😍