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The photography for the Strictly Personal album was the work of Guy Webster. The wonderfully bizarre inner gatefold photo of the band has been discussed in another post. The other photos for the album were taken at a separate session, probably at Webster’s studio and the resulting images were colourised and mocked up as postage stamps for use on the front of the album to help it look more like a real package that had been through the mail. Apart from these five images that were used on the album there were probably other ones taken on the day too. None of these have everRead More →

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The front cover of Strictly Personal was, at the time, quite unusual although it didn’t really hint at the strangeness that lay within those vinyl grooves. However, if you opened up the gatefold sleeve you were confronted head-on with the weirdness that was Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band even if he did say himself that “I may be hungry but I sure ain’t weird”. This certainly wasn’t your usual band photo call, no cheesy smiles, no macho posturing and no dodgy hairdos. Have you ever wondered who was who in that iconic photograph by Guy Webster? Well, we can tell you. Thanks to JerryRead More →