The image, titled “Blind Faith” by Seidemann, became the inspiration for the name of the band itself, which had been unnamed when the artwork was commissioned. (Photo by Eric Weiss)īizarre rumors both contributed to and were fueled by the controversy, including that the girl was Baker’s daughter or was a groupie kept as a slave by the band. Mariora initially requested a horse as a fee but was instead paid £40.īob Seidemann's Blind Faith at Brooklyn Museum's "Who Shot Rock & Roll" exhibit in 2009. Instead, the model he used was her younger sister Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11 years old.
Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl reported to be 14 years old on the London Underground about modeling for the cover, and eventually met with her parents, but that she proved too old for the effect he wanted. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. The beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. “The spaceship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art. The spaceship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life. To carry this new spore into the universe, innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a spaceship was the material object.
“I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell lithographic reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image: The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton’s who is primarily known for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. “But now I can see how controversial it is, because I have children of my own.” “At the time I didn’t think anything of it at all,” admitted Winwood. The cover was deemed too controversial for the American market, but was later reinstated on a subsequent reissue. I still think the album was a great album and it stands up by itself as a great album, by a great band.” “But things started to escalate a little out of our hands. “Eric and I put the band together, because musically we thought we had something to offer,” said Winwood. It featured a photo of a nude 11-year-old holding a phallic-shaped metallic model of a futuristic airplane. The album’s cover was one of the most controversial in rock history. This is the cover art for the album Blind Faith by the English supergroup Blind Faith.īlind Faith wasn’t only known for the instrumental prowess of the group’s players. On the cover of the record is a naked, 11-year-old girl named Mariora Goschen. Formed by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood initially, bassist Ric Grech and drummer Ginger Baker would join a little later and the outcome of this musical melding of minds was their self titled album, Blind Faith, released in August 1969. It's the best thing I've seen in a long, long time.1969 saw the formation of one of rocks most underrated and under-appreciated supergroups in the form of Blind Faith.
All I can say is that everybody should go and see this film. Sean Ellis did a great job to make those scenes look that perfect. The scenes where everything but Ben is frozen and he walks around the store drawing the portraits of the women just strike the right chord. It is about having a broken heart, finding new love, finding someone that is the perfect other half of you. This film is not about sex and teen jokes as some people probably will say. While working in the supermarket he likes to freeze time, to capture the beauty of little things, and to draw pictures of the (naked) female customers. Effectively the film also tells the story about Ben's past which shows how his fascination with the female body began and how those things formed the way he thinks about things now. The film follows Ben's process of dealing with his broken heart, while he is working with his silly colleagues. To speed up the eight hours he used to sleep, he starts working night shifts at Sainsbury's. He can't sleep anymore and is emotionally broken. He just had a rough (literally and figurative) break-up with Suzy. Cashback is an odd combination of teen comedy and romance and the best thing is that it works! The story involves around Ben, an art student. Yesterday I went to the Sneak Preview in the local cinema and I came out happier then I've been in weeks. You find the most beautiful films when you least expect it.