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Cover - The Basement Tapes
↳ 1553 North Schrader Boulevard, Hollywood, LA
Cover - Black Sabbath
↳ Mapledurham Water Mill
Cover - Beginnings
↳ Pouk Hill, Walsall
Video - Violet Hill
Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the limon hapı east coast of Sicily, among other locations it was used for the music video for the Coldplay …
↳ Mount Etna, Sicily
Cover - The Asylum Years
Opened in 1976 the Empire diner is a retro 50s style restaurant in New York, it was used for the front cover of Tom Waits 1986 album Asylum Years.
↳ 210 10th Avenue (at 22nd St), New York
Cover - Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro was the debut album of The Teardrop Explodes in 1980, originally released the album used a photograph of the band. This was later exchanged fo…
↳ Mount Kilimanjaro
Cover - Edgar Broughton Band
↳ Smithfield Meat Market, London
Cover - Mermaid Avenue
The album Mermaid avenue was released in 1998 using previously unpublished material by American folk musician Woody Guthrie who at the time had been dead …
↳ Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island
Cover - At Fillmore East
↳ Brick wall outside former Capricorn Studios, Macon
Cover - Flight 602
The Kennedy space center launch pad was used for the front cover of AIM's album Flight 602, released on the 25 September 2006.
↳ Access road Launch pad 39 Kennedy space centre
Cover - The Unforgettable Fire
The castle was used for the cover of the Irish rock band U2's fourth studio album, 1984's The Unforgettable Fire. Though the photo was taken by photograph…
↳ Moydrum Castle, Athlone, Ireland
Cover - Highway To Hell (rear cover)
The photographer and travel writer Earl Steinbicker took the photograph of the band standing on an abandoned highway which was then used for the back of t…
↳ Staten Island, West Shore Expressway, NY
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