![]() You don’t need to look too closely to see Ronstadt’s nipples peeking through her shirt. ![]() Even when she was posing, she wasn’t posing.” That freezes her in the frame just as a horse is riding past. “There was a time exposure on the background and then we add a flash… a strobe on Linda. (“It took hours to organize.”) The photo chosen for what would become the cover of 1976’s Hasten Down the Wind was shot at night. Kosh, photographer Ethan Russell and their crew set up a shoot in Malibu on the beach. The designer and singer got along so well, it led to a follow-up, one year later… and a bit of controversy. But what I really want to do is sit down with the artist and just enjoy bouncing ideas back and forth.” “I make the point of gaining the trust of that artist and I want to get in the studio while they’re so I can listen to a few tracks. “I’m being hired, more or less, to be the conductor of an orchestra to work with the photographer, all the way from the initial meeting, to getting concepts organized, getting it finalized,” says Kosh. “I had never heard a voice like hers.” He was referring, of course, to Ronstadt, whom Asher managed and produced. “He said, ‘I’ve got a really great artist that you should meet,'” Kosh recalls. In 1975, Kosh, recently transplanted from London to Los Angeles, got a call from his friend, Peter Asher. Kosh has designed covers and other iconic artworks for a literal who’s-who of recording artists, including, just for starters, Eagles’ Hotel California, The Who’s Who’s Next, the ELO logo, John and Yoko’s “War is Over” campaign, and covers for James Taylor, Ringo, Rod Stewart and Bad Company, among his scores of projects. The celebrated designer-everyone just calls him by his last name-had already served as art director for one of the most iconic album covers in music history: The Beatles’ Abbey Road, for which he famously, and riskily at the time, omitted the band’s name from its front side. And one constant, for a long string of successes, was Kosh. Jethro Tull Releases New Album, ‘RökFlöte,’ in Busy 2023īut her audience sure did as she evolved musically through a half dozen (or more) genres.When the Blues Brothers’ ‘Bluesmobile’ Got Pulled Over.Paul Carrack Talks About His Varied Career.Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Joe Walsh Share Stage at ‘Light Up the Blues’ Concert.Bob Dylan Book Takes Deep Dive Into His Archives.Willie Nelson’s 2023 Outlaw Music Festival Expands to 32 Dates.Radio Hits of April 1970: As Easy as ‘ABC’.How Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders Led to 10cc: A Groovy Kind of Story.Class Axes & the Guitarists Who Wielded Them (Pt 2).Harry Belafonte, Singer, Actor, Humanitarian, is Mourned.Creedence Members Cook and Clifford: Then and Now.Joan Baez’s ‘Diamonds & Rust’-Reflections on an Old Friend Named Bob.U2 Adds More 2023 Concerts Due to Fan Registration Demand.Yes Releases 2nd Song From New Album, ‘Mirror To the Sky’.Cat Stevens Shares 2nd Track From New Studio Album, ‘King of a Land’.Willie Nelson Announces Book, ‘The Stories Behind My Songs’.‘Willie Nelson 90’ Concerts Add Stills, Kristofferson, Harris to All-Star Lineup.
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