Wrapping up MJ’s 60th anniversary week, with DES TAYLOR!
Back in the ’60s it was really common for record albums — particularly of the pop instrumental variety — to have a cover featuring a beautiful woman, for the simple reason that it was a beautiful woman.
The quintessenial LP, of course, is 1965’s Whipped Cream and Other Delights, by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass:
So you just know that if the right agent had walked into the Gloom Room a-Go-Go, the club where she shook her moneymaker, Mary Jane would have found herself on an iconic album cover:
Right on, Dad!
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MORE
— A MARY JANE A DAY: Swingin’ in the Sixties. Click here.
— Celebrate 60 Years of MJ With A MARY JANE A DAY. Click here.
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DES TAYLOR is the man behind creator-owned comic properties Scarlett Couture, The Vesha Valentine Story, The Trouble With Katie Rogers and a new property in the works The Blue Lotus Strikes. His client list includes DC Comics, La Perla, FHM, Cosmopolitan, Universal Music, ITV Studios America and many more. When he’s not working on his own properties or churning out commissions, Des spends his spare time… working some more, hating Arsenal and raising his two baby daughters, Scarlett and Leia-May.
