Controversial Album Covers

[Amadeus]

While browsing the history of Scorpion's Virgin Killer album I happened upon a number of other controversial covers
featuring primarily young prepubescent or teen girls.


Blink Faith's album (1969), featured a topless 11 yo girl, holding in her hands a sculpture of an airplane, which some perceived as phallic.
The girl (Mariora Goschen} reportedly requested a puny for the shot, but got 50 bucks and a slap on the ass for her trouble.

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Venetian Snares - Horse and Goat (2004) is so explicit that two North American manufacturers refused to print it.
A removable false cover (simply a close up on the face of the girl on the cover) had to be inserted to be sold in stores.

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Venetian Snares: Find Candace (2003) Believed to be a continuation from his previous album, Doll, Doll, Doll.
Both albums extremely dark, themed largely around the murder of children

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Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy (1973) featured images of nude children climbing up the Giant's Causeway to an unseen idol.
Although the children are not depicted from the front, this was highly controversial at the time of the album's release, and in some areas,
such as Spain, the record was banned.

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Serge Gainsbourg: ‘Histoire De Melodie Nelson: The cover for this album, showing a young girl naked from the waist up clutching a doll,
might be shocking, but it’s no match for the content of the album! Gainsbourg’s magnificent 1971 concept album depicted, in just under half an hour,
the Lolita-esque lust of a middle-aged man for his pubescent nymphet muse.

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King Diamond: Give Me Your Soul Please (2007) Based on a painting titled ‘My Mother’s Eyes’,
Diamond is said to have based this themed album on a story of two dead children, murdered by their father, relating their story to him.

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Silverhead: 16 and Savaged (1973) Part of the Glam Rock scene, featuring a photo of a wasted young girl in wet-torn clothing.

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Scorpions: Virgin Killer (1976) The original cover art for the album depicted a naked prepubescent girl.
The image was designed by Steffan Böhle. Francis Buchholz was the bassist for the band and, in an interview conducted in early 2007,
recollects that the model depicted on the cover was either the daughter or the niece of "the guy who did the cover design."

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There's a larger cover for this album... still needs work however. I'll post later.

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[charlottegainsbourg1]

virgin killer is the rarest cover.

[Amadeus]

virgin killer is the rarest cover.

Indeed, I've never seen Virgin Killer as big as the one I found on eMule recently - 1360 x 1371.
Still, the before and after image above represents many brush strokes at over 200% [face only].
I'll basically end up repainting the entire cover.

[worf12]

Actually there's only 2 kids involved...brother and sister i believe.
mr worf12

Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy (1973) featured images of nude children climbing up the Giant's Causeway to an unseen idol.
Although the children are not depicted from the front, this was highly controversial at the time of the album's release, and in some areas,
such as Spain, the record was banned.

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[FLL]

Scorpions: Virgin Killer (1976) The original cover art for the album depicted a naked prepubescent girl.
The image was designed by Steffan Böhle. Francis Buchholz was the bassist for the band and, in an interview conducted in early 2007,
recollects that the model depicted on the cover was either the daughter or the niece of "the guy who did the cover design."

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I just recently came across a reference to this in Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer

In December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based non-government organization, added the Wikipedia article Virgin Killer
to its internet blacklist due to concerns over legality of the image, which had been assessed as the lowest level of legal concern: "erotic posing with
no sexual activity". As a result, people using many major UK ISPs were blocked from viewing the entire article by the Cleanfeed system, and a large
part of the U.K. was blocked from editing Wikipedia due to the means of blocking in use. Following discussion, representations by the Wikimedia
Foundation (who host the Wikipedia website), and public complaints, the IWF reversed their decision three days later, and confirmed that in future
they would not block copies of the image that were hosted overseas.

So apparently the IWF and therefore the UK ISP censoring system considers simple nudity to be dangerous. Ridiculous but not surprising
I guess. I know the ban was reversed, but that's because of popular sentiment regarding Wikipedia. A site without such numerous and
vocal supporters has no chance. Apparently the censoring is implemented on home connections by major UK ISPs.

A similar system seems to be coming in Australia, government-mandated.

[Amadeus]

Good eye FLL.

I love it when big business smashes one these perverted little watchdog groups. Hits them where it hurts.

Directly in their child-molested buttocks.