Iconic album cover locations in real life on Google Maps Pt. 1 | Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rush
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- I thought it would be fun to re-visit the locations where iconic album covers were shot, using Google Streetview and Google Maps. We check out Led Zeppelin (Physical Graffiti), Beastie Boys (Paul's Boutique), Rush (Moving Pictures) and Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath). Enjoy!
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I did this a couple months ago and found the exact spot that Lynyrd Skynyrd posed in the debut album 'pronounced LS'
Cool, I may have to add that one to my list for next time. Thanks!
badass
The Pronouced cover is in Jonesboro Ga. The train station and the album cover area are also shown as Texarkana TX. in Smokey and the Bandit czcams.com/video/lQjlU82c31Y/video.html jump to the 2:15 mark.. Skynyrd's album cover spot was just off to left (in the video) you can't see it... about 100 feet in front of the heritage bank.
I was there this past December. It's pretty cool, it'd changed a good bit. Would reccomend!
As far as famous album covers go, I had the opportunity to walk on the Beatles' Abbey Road crosswalk in front of EMI studios in London in 2002. It's just about a block away from the St. John's Wood Underground station. It's smaller than it appears on the album cover, like a lot of things do in real life, and a lot of people were using it to cross the street like it was nothing special. I guess when you live there and see it every day, then it's just part of the neighbourhood.
Bobby, been following your channel for 3 months, and I wonder why you don't get verivication sign from youtube bcuz you have 300k-ish subs?
@@williamjohnwidjaja5714 I used to but then I changed my channel name from BobbyCrispy to GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy, I think that's why.
If you're ever curious as to what it looks like or what's going on there at this very moment, you can always see a live streaming video of the spot at www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk (although the view seems to be looking in the oppisite direction than the famous album cover photo) I wonder how long you have to watch the cam on average before you happen to catch a group of tourists attempting to re-create the photo?
Cross it on my way to work 😂
Way to make this about yourself
When Eddie Van Halen died, I spent the morning using Google Maps “Street View” (and clues from the internet) to see the exact location where Eddie wrote his name in the concrete of a sidewalk in Pasadena, CA.
Google will sometimes have street views from different years so it took a bit of fiddling to find the right year and angle from which to see it. In one year a car was blocking the way haha
Very cool. So I take it that you found it?
@@Channel33RPM I did! FB message incoming :)
Is it on Mean Street?
I thought the figure on Black Sabbath's debut was Ozzy too when I was a kid.
I always thought it was Ozzy too.
Same
me too
I just thought it was a witch or something. I remember when I was a kid, maybe 8 yrs old or so, in about 1972, I was at my cousin's house and we were down in his "bedroom" which was really just a dark corner of their unfinished basement, and he pulled this album out from on top of a duct where he had it hidden, and the album cover scared the shit out of me. He was a few yrs older than me, so probably 14 or 15, and he says, "You HAVE to promise you won't tell my mom I have this!" I agreed to keep my mouth shut...back then, Sabbath REALLY scared the shit out of people! People that are younger will never fully appreciate the impact this band had at that time, but back then, people talked about Sabbath with a fearful reverence. People really thought they were Satanists and evil as hell, and getting caught with their albums as a kid meant serious punishment...just listening to them was nearly a guarantee you're heading for Hell, if you listened to a lot of the adults, lol.
Anyway, he checks to make sure we were alone in the house, and he puts the album on and turns out the lights! Listening to the song "Black Sabbath" cranked up in that dark basement as a kid scared me like nothing else ever had at the time...listening to Ozzy scream from Hell on that song had a serious impact on me and it changed my life...that was the moment I started listening to harder rock and developed a serious addiction to it that is present to this day.
A HUGE thanks to my cousin Mike (RIP) for introducing me to the dark side of things, lol.
I realized he was not Ozzy like 2 months ago 👉🏼👈🏼
6:00 I always also thought it was Ozzy on the picture, but then remember that Ozzy did not have his creepy dark appearance until way later in his career.
I got that album when I was 13, parents weren't happy. I knew it was a creepy woman
So cool ! Especially with Black sabbath’s debut. It’s hard to match sitting in your music room , listening to an album while you check out the cover and printed inner sleeves. Great video !
Thanks Roger!
LIKE number 3 which I did with glee.
Cover art is a huge part of the appeal of collecting records. Tiny thumbnail images on a phone can't compete with 12-inch by 12-inch images that add another level of enjoyment to the music. :)
Especially with a cover like The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request", with it's lenticular (3D) picture. There would probably have been more albums with that kind of cover except that the cost of producing them is prohibitively expensive. Originally the picture for "Satanic" was meant to cover the whole front of the jacket, but that would have been way too expensive, so they reduced it and added a swirling blue and white border.
I used to design album covers, back when they were ALBUM covers, & it was a very involved process with lots of meetings with the artist & management, discussing concepts & whatnot, mocking up comps, usually had a couple of revisions or at least a request for some small detail to be finessed. Then after the advent of CDs, the process became a lot quicker, & eventually it seemed like the artwork wasn't nearly as important, at least not down to the last detail, as it once had been. I quit doing them when people stopped paying the big bucks to have them designed. Shame. It was a legit art form, as far as I'm concerned. I remember as a teenager coming home with a new record & combing over every square inch of the album cover while I listened to it. Back in those days (before MTV & certainly before CZcams), they were the only VISUAL we had to associate with the music we listened to. They played heavily into what we knew about the artists behind the music & the feelings the music evoked. Most importantly, they stimulated our imaginations. Now they're inconsequential, if they even exist at all. Yet another dimension of music that has been lost to technology. I feel sorry for kids today. They'll never hear the warmth & depth of an analog recording. They'll never know the beauty of a live performance, how differently a song can manifest itself from one night to the next, without real-time pitch correction & a backing track being blended in to smooth out the "rough" edges. And they never have to use their imaginations, never see where their minds might take them. Sad.
@@tomfurgas2844 Haha! I actually found that cover at my local Value Village with the lenticular image still intact, but it was missing the record inside, but that particular album, music-wise, sucked in my opinion, but luckily for me, the record included with the cover was The Gene Rains Group "Rains in the Tropics' exotica album which is very hard to find, so I had the best of both worlds; a cool Rolling Stones album cover and a highly sought after and rare exotica record for only $2 purchased two years ago. :)
@@nannettefreeman7331 Wow! That's amazing that you designed record and CD covers, Nannette, and I agree that it's a lost art form much like movie posters these days with lazy Photoshop shots of the actors faces (or shots of the band for albums) and not inspirational at all to make one want to see the movie or buy the album. However, I have seen younger people for the past several years (teens and twenty-somethings) that are discovering the beauty of vinyl records and I hope it becomes a lifelong passion for them, not just a hipster trend. We'll see and the absurd prices of newly-released record albums won't help to keep that passion alive or it will just be a small niche market.
@@nannettefreeman7331 Great share, Nannette! As a "jacket nerd," (and former radio jock and retail record store mgr in the '70s and early '80s), I'd love to know, if you're game to share, the label(s) for whom you worked. One Barry Hansen (Dr. Demento) once wrote about jacket SPINES! Thinking I was the only one who noticed or even cared, it was cool to hear his dissertation on, say, the squared-off spines (with the angled lines at the top that accompanied the catalog #) of Columbia's jackets, or the rounded ones of RCA and Warner Bros (and most everybody else). Gatefolds, of course, had spines that simply included the continued artwork that was displayed on front and back covers.
Plus, with the advent of CDs and downloads, the spine was one of the first real pieces of the album jacket to became completely extinct. With CDs, you still had the artwork, but as mentioned, frustratingly smaller, with many times, the jacket back either non-existent, or radically different than the original LP release. Anyway, thanks again, Nannette!😎🎶✔
According to Geezer Butler, if you look close, the girl is holding a black cat.
I always thought the woman on Sabbath cover was a Witch. She looks like the witches in 1970 ish Engish movies
I was about 10 years old when I saw that album cover. I thought it was a witch, or some ghostly apparition of a woman. I'd just discovered Hammer horror movies and she looked like she could have been in one of their movies. I still have that album.
Same here
With that tinge of green skin, Oh Yeah!
Yes it does have a 'Hammer' look to it.
No witch
Paul's Boutique was groundbreaking. It's made nearly entirely of samples and it was the first album of it's kind. It's one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.
But the cover was hardly worthy of much praise, not REALLY? I mean not in itself. It's only by it's association that photo is anything.
I think you'll find Public Enemy were doing this a few years before that..
I went to see the Ziggy Stardust album cover site on Heddon Street in London a few years ago. It’s a short walk from Piccadilly Circus and is now a developed area with trendy restaurants and bars. Almost unrecognizable except for a couple of the brick buildings in the background.
That was great, but you wanna REALLY impress me, do a locations video for Yes album covers "Fragile" and "Relayer". 😁
Ha, ha, ha, as a YES fan since 1976 I just was thinking along those same lines that I want him to find the locations Roger Dean uses. On a serious note, I was thinking he could do the cover to Going For The One. I think they are towers in LA.
@@pschroeter1 it's to bad we don't have albums like we use to what's we get the art work
The Relayer Cover always reminded me of something out of Lord of the Rings. One of my favorite Yes albums.
@@gerardcooney1810 I listened to that album REALLY high on mushrooms about 30 years ago. It blew my mind! I will never hear "Sound Chaser" quite the same again.
@@thislazylife same here! My friends always stayed stuck on grateful dead, but everytime i tripped i went straight to Yes on headphones, especially Relayer!
the stones are sitting with Peter Tosh on that step too! love the channel Frank. I'd like to see more album cover history vids, thanks.
Moving Pictures is Rush's 8th studio album. Not their 6th.
Thank you! I logged in to clear that up myself!
The Moving Pictures artwork is a triple entendre as men are moving pictures, people are moved by the pictures, AND the back cover has a film crew filming a moving picture. If the paintings were of motion, it could have been a quadruple entendre.
Good call!
In the concert, the pictures moved as well.
After being a Beatles fan for most of my life - i finally made it to Abby Road in St Johns’ Wood , London.
It was a surreal experiance - so amazing!
Definitely! I spent an hour in Studio 2 at Abbey Road back in 2005. It's as close as I've ever got to a religious experience!
That was brill Frank... can we have some more of them please!! I love Sunday nights here in the UK !! keep on spinning
Thanks Graham!
I just recently googled 461 Ocean Boulevard in Miami. The cover of Clapton's album.
I live only about an hour away from where that self titled Black Sabbath photo was taken! If you're ever in the UK there are some amazing pieces of musical history around here. Headley Grange is nearby where a lot of Led Zepplin's music was recorded/demos written as well as Fleetwood Mac. There are also some brilliant guitar stores (Anderton's and Guitar Village) nearby which may be of interest to you even to just see some of the rare instruments on display
Dude, do I know you?! Love those guitar shops (my band mates and I get most of our gear from Andertons) Know Mapledurham well - but where’s Headley Grange?
Those would be awesome places to visit!
Am I right in thinking that the band purchased the grange for a tiny amount of money? Also Jimmy Paige it is said practiced devil worship or seances there? That could just be a tale? Thanks.
Moving Pictures has a wider shot on the back cover and you can see it is being filmed aka making a moving picture.👍
Great video, Moving Pictures was Rush's 8th album though. Absolute classic! One of my friends got to see the watermill where that Sabbath album cover was taken.
D'oh!!!! Apologies for the error.
And the art director's name Hugh Syme is pronounced S-I'm not S-I'm-ee.
You're both wrong...Moving Pictures was Rush's 7TH Album. Rush, Fly By Night, Caress of Steel, 2112, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and then Moving pictures! Not 6th or 8th! Sorry fellas!
@@mr.mojorisin1616 you forgot about "A Farewell To Kings". "Moving Pictures" was indeed their 8th studio album.
@@PetePidgeon You ARE right! I totally forgot ( I have no idea how) about AFTK! MY BAG!
Frank, great vid - would be great to see more of these album cover location vids. Nice one!
Thanks, will do!
Fascinating look at album cover locations, then and now.
I think album covers are almost as important as the music inside them. Hoping you do more vids on covers in the future, Frank! One possible topic might be an overview of album covers that have only images, no titles or band names. Such as the Led Zeppelin covers like "Houses Of The Holy".
Good idea, Tom. I will definitely consider this. Thank for for the suggestion.
Frank
I’d like to see more videos like this!
The back cover of Moving Pictures features a film crew making a movie of it, making the album cover a triple entendre.
What a great video Frank, really enjoyed it. I always thougt that was ozzy lol
The mill on the Sabbath album is the same mill that's in the Michael Caine movie The Eagle has landed. Bit of trivia for you.
Great video Frank!!! As a young man collecting vinyl many years ago I used to love looking at the album artwork as I listened to my Lps. Cudos to you for doing an awesome job on these iconic albums...... I own the Led Zeppelin one and never knew it's history. Let's have more of these please.
Keep on spinning Frank!👍
Thanks man
It was the 1937 hindenberg Zepplin Airship blowing up and crashing to the ground at lakehurst New Jersey
I know what u mean. Miss the album art work. All we have is cds
@@mikekeeler6362 well start collecting vinyl
@@jimb2416 I have stared back up. It's just hard to find the album covers in great shap
On the Moving Pictures album cover, the Joan of Arc painting is actually a picture of the photographer who took the photographs for the album cover. On the Rush album, each pillar of the building has a three-pronged bit of hardware attached to it (presumably these are metal tubes into which flags can be inserted?). When my profile picture was taken in June 2015, those fittings were gone; the building appears unchanged otherwise.
Yeah man this was great fun! It's always cool seeing the original locations of cover art!
Hi Frank this was a great video what a brilliant idea 👍.
Thanks 👍
Awesome look at then & now ! Bet the residents of the Physical Graffiti buildings get tired of those taking a 📷. My favorite album cover is Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen which won the 🇬🇧 equivalent of a Grammy 🏆 & should still be the same today , as it was 📷 on a beach ⛱
What a fun concept for a video, loved every minute of it! Keep 'em coming!!
Thank you! Will do!
My daughter lives in London not too far from Abbey Road studios, which we can choose to drive by when going to visit her - but which we dont do because its a bit of a nightmare avoiding the tourists walking across the zebra crossing and standing in the road to take photos - if you tried to recreate the iconic picture yourself you'd most likely get run over by a bus if you dont get hit by a car first!
I'd like to see that someday.
I used to live in Memphis, TN, and any time you drove by Sun Studio you had to watch out for tourists standing in the road taking pictures of the building.
It would be the same way by the fence and gates at Graceland if there wasn’t a place for people to pull off of the road in front of the fence. You still have to watch out for people crossing the street from the parking area on the other side of the road.
There used to be a webcam set up so people around the world could gawk at idiot tourists doing exactly that. Might still be there I dunno
Last week I fulfilled a lifelong dream and saw Battersea Power Station in real life after seeing it on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “Animals” my whole life ( I was born two years after its release and there was always a copy in the house. It totally lived up to my expectations, especially since there is now a really cool lift that allows you to go up one of the chimneys and pop out the top for a unique view of the station and all of London.
That Black Sabbath album cover photo, combined with the "Still falls the rain" story, had a profound impact on me as a 13 yr kid. Writing this now I get chills. "Tired of repeating yesterday's horrors". OMG the memories
My friend lives in Trondheim and got a photo of the Nidaros cathedral. He sent it to me to see if I recognised it . Turns out it was used on Mayhems De Mysteriis album cover.
There was another band from Norway called Malignant eternal. On their first release which is now quite collectable there was this creepy gothic temple on the cover. It's been used on other small time metal band album covers. The temple is literally a 10 minute walk from my house.
I like to go on Google Maps and find these locations while I'm listening to the record. I'm actually surprised that you did the same thing as a video! I like the "Fool For The City" cover by Foghat because you can see the exact manhole he was fishing in and Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album cover.
Very cool video! Great idea! Album cover art is a great subject. Too many great ones.
You forgot to mention (or maybe you didn’t didn’t know) the person carrying the “star man” painting is Alex Lifeson. I remember when the album came out, a DJ taking on Q-107, that it was him. Just thought I’d add that. Now it know!🤘😎
Huh... I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!
I looked it up and it's not true, the person carrying the starman is Kelly Jay
The dude carrying the "JOA" on the left is also on the cover of Hemispheres as well as being the starman!
When I flew through Paris a few years ago I walked over to Terminal 1 to get some photos inside. That's where Alan Parsons Projects' "I Robot" cover was shot. The tubes are still there, but no sign of the giant robot.
This needs wayyyy more likes!!
Wealth of information here!😎👍🤘
Thanks!
Excellent content, Frank! I live quite near Mapledurham - next time you are over in the UK, I’ll be happy to show you round by way of homage to one of my fave albums (and covers).
That would be awesome!
Great video frank yes would like to see more
Great stories! My Uncle lived on St. Mark's for decades right across from the iconic Physical Graffiti album cover apartment. I never realized this until just recently. While doing a YT cover of Black Country Woman for some reason I looked up the building and was shocked. It was then I realized, he passed away one year to the day.
very cleaver, enjoy your channel...and greetings from Memphis, TN
Cinderella’s “Night Songs” would be an easy one. It’s right next to south street in Philly.
This is a really good video Frank. I enjoyed the facts along with the google maps screen capture.
Have you made this a series? I'd like to see more.
When I was in New York, I didn't have time to visit the famous location of Paul's Boutique but hope to one day.
Great video. Thanks for doing it! Hopefully you do more rock history, iconic type stuff. There's a whole series there maybe. Kind of like a filming locations thing.
Thanks John. I really dig the history of rock music. I do hope to do more of this sort of stuff. Thanks for the comment.
Frank
Another interesting detail about Black Sabbath's debut album... it was released on a Friday the 13th in Feb 1970.
I met Geezer Butler at a motorhead gig in Wolverhampton.He still lives locally and carries his local accent. Nothing scary about him at all.I didn't know about the release date though. Good comment.
I think most people thought the model lady was Ozzy lol. This is a cool video, dude! Makes me want to go look some things up.
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but It's my understanding that the guy who designed the Moving Pictures album cover is one of the guys 'moving one of the pictures' lol. Great vid. Cheers!!
More of these please, you've struck gold in terms of content 😄
Amazing video 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
A third perspective of "Moving Pictures" is on the back cover which shows the whole thing was a film being shot showing movie cameras and a film crew. Great video, Frank!
When I came to Toronto, I was near to Lakeside Park and also used the Airport too. When I got home, I realised too late that I could have had my photo taken in front of the Moving Pictures building. One of the guys moving the pictures is the same guy that is naked on the Hemispheres album.
I did not know that about Moving Pictures/Hemispheres. Thanks for the info.
@@Channel33RPM Link for the stories of the covers Frank
ultimateclassicrock.com/rush-album-cover-stories/
@@Channel33RPM he's also on the Exit Stage Left live album cover
Great idea Frank I dig it!!
Thanks 👍
Frank,
I hate to break the news to you. But, Black Sabbath did not start heavy metal. The Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze was the first ever heavy metal song. Jimi recorded it in November of 1966 and released in March of 1967. Two months later Cream released their version of heavy metal with their song White Room inspired by the heaviness of Hendrix song. Black Sabbath was not even around yet at that time. Purple Haze inspired The Beatles to do Helter Skelter after they saw Hendrix live. Other bands like Zeppelin, Sabbath, Motorhead were all influenced by the original Hendrix.
a few years ago, I was in Toronto. My friends and i had to swing by the Legislative Building to snap a pic from Hugh Syme's perspective of the building... This was a week after taking a picture of the spot where Flip Schulte made the photograph of the damage from Hurricane Carla that became the background image for the Permanent Waves album. The building with the signs in the background that had the band member's names was The Balinese Room, the birthplace of the Margarita.
For me, the back of "Moving Pictures" will always give me a particular thrill...there is a man in a green parka looking in the direction of the photographer. He was our junior high art / film / animation teacher here in Connecticut - we just couldn't believe this guy we saw everyday had somehow managed to end up on the back of one of our favorite records!! We'd bother him for stories at any chance, and he'd always reply "fellas, it was a job!".
That's awesome!
On Rush's A Farewell To Kings album, they have Toronto in the background.
Wow, I thought it was Ozzy too. Very cool video Frank!
Fun video Frank! I'm going to look at some album covers and do some sleuthing of my own. Keep on spinning 😉
I looked up Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard but the house was torn down and replaced by something fancier.
The Mill at Mapledurham also features in the film “The Eagle has landed” with Michael Caine & Donald Sutherland !
Some excellent footage of the mill & surrounding area.
I'm about 400 miles away from Mapledurham Mill, but hope to visit it one day before I part this world. Its my favourite Sabbath album and cover.
I am so glad that I stumbled into your videos. I have lots of 33 rpm LPs. There’s so much crap online these days. I subscribed, because you have so much interesting information on LPs and places that I’m very familiar with. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, I appreciate that
This was great Frank. What a cool idea.
Glad you liked it!
I did a NYC Rock and Roll Street tour a few years back and one of the spots we went to was the Physical Graffiti shot location.
I'd like to see more, especially those shot in obscure towns (away from the major cities). Or that feature places that no longer exist like the old WTC.
Love St. Marks Place....one of the best areas in NYC, McSorley's Ale House is just few blocks away as well. So is Joe's Pub....
It would be cool to visit there one day. Seems like a great area.
Frank, this was great! Please do more of them.
Great video, love the then and now photos of these famous places👍
I've visited the Beatles Abbe Road cover intersection with Google Maps. I'm a big fan of YES, but the only real place I can think of that's real is the towers used on Going For The One in LA. I wonder if these places are used to people showing up to check them out and have their pictures taken to recreate the covers.
Just don’t show up naked for your GFTO cover reenactment...🤔😳
@@peterliebezeit5636 Don't worry, my keister isn't that nice and worthy.
@@pschroeter1 Instead of Going For The One, you’d wind up Going To The Jail lol
What a great idea for a video! You've outdone yourself, Frank! Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the Sabbath info. Wonder if Morrison Hotel on the Doors album is still there??
1241 S Hope St, LA, CA... it's boarded up, but it's there.
There is a vid on this youtube with the photographer going back there (dont think its a hotel anymore
If not already suggested, another great album cover photo location (front & back photos!) can still be visited in Macon, Georgia: The Allman Brothers first album. The front cover featuring the band was shot on the north porch of the Beall-Jordan-Dunlap House, a stunning, Doric columned antebellum mansion at 315 College Street. The property is currently owned by Mercer University, but tourists are typically welcome to visit. The back cover was shot against the outside wall of the creepy yet beautiful Johnston-Bond crypt at historic Rose Hill Cemetery at the edge of town fronting the Ocmulgee River. While there, visit the graves of four original band members including Duane and Greg Allman.
What could be called the first Black Sabbath album..live at Dumfries youth club has more pictures of the water mill..Early Rituals ..with live sound to match a small venue...
Great concept - more please!
I’ve always wanted to see the tree on the cover of John Lennon’s “Plastic Ono Band” album
As a Pink Floyd fan, there are some cover photos that are definitely worth researching.
The cover of Animals is well known, but what about that of Ummagumma front and back covers?
Or, that of Wish You Were Here? Burning man at Warner Studios or diving man at Lake Momo California?
I suggest a special edition for Pink Floyd.
The Division Bell by Pink Floyd was shot on a field overlooking Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire. Both field and cathedral still stand.
Also, Moving Pictures was Rush's 8th studio album. I know not everyone is in love with Caress of Steel, but let's not forget about it eh :P
That was a lot of fun, Frank! Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it
This was a really cool video. Would love to see more of these.
If you do another video like this, how about including the location of the Jayhawks 1992 album, "Hollywood Town Hall"?
A few summers ago my wife and I drove there, set up a tripod and tried to duplicate the cover photo. It turned out really nice. A graphic artist friend of ours took the picture and made an exact replica of the album with our picture. Turned out awesome!!
OMG I forgot about that stellar album! I was managing a record store when we got that album for a play copy. Played it a ton. Going to crank it up now! Thanks You
I'm sure quite a few of you know that the iconic cover for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here was photographed at the Warner Bros lot in Burbank, CA (at the time, it was known as The Burbank studios). Now, while most of us probably don't have access to this movie lot, the outer perimeter is kinda neat in its own right. If you travel east on Olive Ave and follow the curve that effectively leads you to Hollywood, you'll see enormous movie signs for most majorr films or shows were filmed there. Pretty neat if you ask me. Some other factoids about the area... from 1987-2002, KROQ was located a stone's throw away from the front entrance to the WB Lot. WB Records main offices are still there outside the western side of the lot and across from the front entrance housed the old WEA offices. Very cool stuff. I'd go on about the other notable locations in Burbank but I wanted to focus on that immediate area.
Cool. Thanks for this info!
So cool thanks for sharing
I've been to the physical graffiti building many times but not in decades. I grew up in the Bronx and would make many trips into the city and the village. Especially to tower records and Bleeker Bob's which was a great record store back in the day. Not sure if it still exists. Very cool thing to do Frank, this was fun.
The cover of the great Stones Album High Tide and Green Grass was shot at Franklin Canyon above Beverly Hills. Worth checking out.
Was fortunate to visit Dunluce Castle and the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland a few years ago; both were featured on the gatefold of Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy album. A bit off the beaten path, but highly recommended if you ever have the chance to see/visit; an added plus is Bushmills is nearby :-)
this was a really cool concept! loved the video!!!
Bravo. Great episode. It'd like to someday visit each of those spots!
Thanks Danny - I would like to check them out someday as well.
This was really cool Frank, awesome!!
Yes keep doing videos like this. Awesome stuff.
An ex-boyfriend of mine had an old snapshot of Battersea Power Station with the pig balloon floating over it. His family had actually BEEN THERE (or maybe they lived nearby, I forget) on the day Pink Floyd's Animals album cover image was taken & I guess his mom snapped a picture. The balloon wasn't all that big in reality. Camera angles: all just a matter of perspective.
Love it. Thanks for sharing.
the balloon was not even "live" in the cover pic. it was the 1970s equivalant of photoshopped in.
@@josephlalock8378 well, SOMEBODY floated a pig balloon over the Battersea Power Station at some point in time coz I held the snapshot in my hands in 1985. It was faded. It was one of those "matte" prints you could order when you dropped off your roll of film, with the rounded corners. Maybe he THOUGHT it was when the image for the album cover was taken (he would have been pretty young at the time, maybe 10-ish), but it was really some promotional thing they did after the album was released. I dunno. But it was a cool snapshot to have, for sure!
@@josephlalock8378 might I add that he wasn't even a fan of that sort of music. He was into Spandau Ballet, Level 42, David Sylvian, etc. It wasn't the sort of thing I'd expect him to have, let alone fake. It would account for the size discrepancy in MY mind, though, if it was a promotional thing after the fact. Definitely taken sometimes around the time the album was released.
Great video! Would love to see more album cover location videos.
Very cool, would like to see more.
I have been to Mapledurham Watermill twice and it’s creepy! There is really old church next to the mill and a small grave side. I went with couple of friends of mine and by the time we was there it was pitch black.. pretty cool place !
This was great!! Would love to see more!!
Frank you are on a Ripkenesque streak here of great episodes! That winter break did you well. If the next episode is a breakdown of Too Fast for Love on Leathur v Elektra records my prayers will have been answered!