From Ultimate Classic Rock.
Louisa Livingstone, the black-robed woman on the cover of Black Sabbath‘s debut, has spoken about the experience in recognition of the album’s 50th anniversary.
At the time, Livingstone was a model in her late teens, and photographer Keith “Keef” Macmillan chose her, in part because she was only five feet tall, thereby making the scenery around her look big. Macmillan chose Oxfordshire’s Mapledurham Watermill, a historic building that dates back to the 15th century, because he thought it fit the dark, gothic sound of the band, and the two went there one morning.
“I remember it was freezing cold,” she told Rolling Stone. “I had to get up at about 4 o’clock in the morning. Keith was rushing around with dry ice, throwing it into the water. It didn’t seem to be working very well, so he ended up using a smoke machine. It was just, ‘Stand there and do that.’ I’m sure he said it was for Black Sabbath, but I don’t know if that meant anything much to me at the time.”
“She wasn’t wearing any clothes under that cloak because we were doing things that were slightly more risqué, but we decided none of that worked,” he added. “Any kind of sexuality took away from the more foreboding mood. But she was a terrific model. She had amazing courage and understanding of what I was trying to do.”
Despite her work on the cover, Livingstone, now an electronic musician who works under the name Indreba, never gravitated towards the music. But for Macmillan, the cover shoot was an entry into a whole new world. “To be honest, it was the first time I really enjoyed that kind of heavy rock,” he said. “But that album made me a fan for life.”
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- Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 180gm - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.00, €22.40 (New Item) (arrived 23-Oct-2020 12:21)on October 26, 2020 at 5:01 am
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid (2015 European limited edition remastered issue of their classic 1970 8-track LP pressed on 180gram Vinyl, including many of the band's signature songs including Iron Man, War Pigs & the title track. The gatefold picture sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl appears barely played BMGRM054LP)
- Black Sabbath - Greatest Hits + Insert - Japanese - vinyl LP - £50.00, $62.50, €56.00 (New Item) (arrived 29-Sep-2020 09:16)on October 26, 2020 at 5:01 am
BLACK SABBATH Greatest Hits (1980 Japanese issue of the 1977 10-track vinyl LP, housed in a picture sleeve complete with Japanese/lyric insert & black & orange 'Heavy Metal' obi-strip. The sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl looks barely played SP18-5016)
- Black Sabbath - Tyr - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $118.75, €106.40 (New Item) (arrived 14-Sep-2020 23:51)on October 26, 2020 at 5:01 am
BLACK SABBATH Tyr (Rare 1990 UK first issue 9-track vinyl LP with A1/B1 matrices, the fifteenth album from the british group featuring Cozy Powell on drums and Tony Martin on vocals, glossy picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve shows very few signs of storage with only the midlest of corner wear, and the vinyl remains barely played in near as new condition, a lovely example of this hard to find 90s pressing EIRSA1038)
- Black Sabbath - 13 (Thirteen) - Orange Vinyl - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £49.99, $62.49, €55.99 (New Item) (arrived 15-Sep-2020 13:18)on October 26, 2020 at 5:01 am
BLACK SABBATH 13 (2019 UK & European issue Limited 'HMV Exclusive' Edition issue of their 2013 8-track double LP pressed on Orange Vinyl, including the singles God Is Dead?, End Of The Beginning and Loner.Both discs are UNPLAYED housed in the gatefold picture sleeve which remains sealed within its custom-stickered shrinkwrap)
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - Italian - vinyl LP - £150.00, $187.50, €168.00 (New Item) (arrived 15-Sep-2020 17:38)on October 26, 2020 at 5:01 am
BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (Rare original Italian Vertigo 'swirl' logo label 7-track vinyl LP, matt gatefold picture sleeve with mis-spell Ozzy Osbourne as Ossie Osborne inside, with white bordered poly-lined 'swirl' inner. The sleeve has just some minor edgewear but is otherwise in fantastic shape, whilst the vinyl displays only a few cosmetic surface scuffs to indicate light play. An Excellent example of this scarce Italian swirl press! VO6)
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