Not the most famous album cover but here's Charles De Gaulle Airport, the escalators where the cover photo for Alan Parsons Project's I Robot was taken
I believe this is the location of Paul Simon' s "Still Crazy..." album cover, one of the fire escapes on the right? http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/a/After_Hours_Crosby_Street.jpg
Fairport Convention, 'Unhalfbricking'. I managed to sneak this photo in Arthur Road, Wimbledon, a few years ago. Usually - and I mean generally - the gates to the front of the premises are locked. I was very very lucky to decide to take a look for the location on a day when builders were present. There's a lot of chat on the internet saying the location doesn't exist. It does. Neil and Edna Denny lived in a flat at the premises.
I posted this in another thread in the Visual Arts forum, but he's the cover to Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack to Twin Peaks:
As others have said, the Physical Grafitti building is on St. Marks Place. I don't know if I agree that the building looks smaller than on the LP. The photo used on the LP actualy removes one floor of the bulding (actually there are 2 twin buildings) so it would fit on the square sleeve. In real life, therefore, the buildings look taller and skinnier, so maybe that's why they appewared to be smaller to you. There is a great Vietnamese sandwich place in the ground floor of the building. I think the album was mixed at Electric Lady Studios, wasn't it? The studio is on 8th St., which is the same street as St. Marks. The studio is about 9 blocks east of the album cover buildings.
My favorite now! I've been researching the cover of Herb Alpert's "Rise" Lp. Some of the info I found says it's a mural on the back lot of A&M Records. So I'm assuming not much has changed...but Herb sure has.
9 blocks east puts you in the middle of the East River. Electric Lady is on 8th between 6th Ave. & Macdougal. Anyway, only Houses of the Holy (the song) was mixed at Electric Lady. The rest was mixed at Olympic in London.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1990803/bannatyne-building-featured-on-guess-who-album-burns/ So Long, Bannatyne: building featured on Guess Who album burns By Lara Schroeder Web Producer Global News WINNIPEG – Smoke and flames billowed over the weekend from a Winnipeg apartment building made famous on the cover of a Guess Who album. Fire crews arrived to fight a fire at the Bannatyne Apartments at Bannatyne Avenue and Kate Street in the Exchange District at about 11 a.m. Sunday. The blaze had spread from the basement to the roof of the three-storey building when fire crews arrived. It took several hours to control the blaze, with one firefighter sent to hospital with minor injuries. The area around Bannatyne and Isabel Street was evacuated while firefighters battled the blaze. The building, which was vacant while it underwent renovations, is expected to be a total loss. The apartment block was once home to Guess Who guitarist Kurt Winter and was featured on the cover of the 1971 album So Long, Bannatyne, with the band sitting in a red Chevrolet in front of the building. The song includes the line “So long, Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.” Smoke billows from the roof of the Bannatyne Apartments on Sunday. Walther Berneral/ Global News
