![]() ![]() "But I haven't been down there for 20 years." There's also a Chelsea programme in the book rack on the front cover of the Style Council's Our Favourite Shop.īlake crops up again with his montage on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band where Liverpool's Albert Stubbins stands between HC Westerman and Lahiri Mahasaya. ![]() "Charlie Cooke, Peter Osgood, that lot," he recalled in 1993 when asked about his seemingly unlikely affection for football. ![]() That fits with Weller's outing of himself as a boyhood Chelsea fan. "I understand Weller had originally wanted Charlie Cooke on the sleeve," writes Simon. ![]() Simon Warner, of the University of Leeds's school of music, notes that Best makes a third appearance after the Wedding Present and Oasis on Paul Weller's Stanley Road, in a portrait by Sir Peter Blake. Moving off topic to the far more popular subject of footballers as opposed to teams on album or singles covers, and discounting compilation albums or we would be inundated with Cherry Red's catalogue of football-themed CDs, John Dodsworth nominates Oasis's Definitely Maybe with its contrasting images of Manchester City's Rodney Marsh and United's George Best. Our own research has picked up Ace's debut LP Five-a-Side, featuring a picture of the Liverpool crowd with Paul Carrack and Co stuck on top waving blue and white scarves. It didn't do much for Volendam's promotion charge, however, the club dropping two places to eighth after 1972-73's sixth-placed finish in the Dutch second division. They put a large V on their shirts that season, claiming to get around the objections of the KNVB that the V stood for Volendam, and released a compilation album of the station's local favourites with a team picture on the cover, including the goalkeeper wearing a Selwyn Froggitt bobble hat.įeatured artists numbered the soft-rocking sounds of the Cats, George Baker Selection, Tee-Set, Continental Uptight Band and Dizzy Man's Band. The artistic collaboration between FC Volendam and Radio Veronica resulted in this love child in 1973, the same year that "The Other Orange" became the first Eerste Divisie side to tie up a sponsorship deal – with the offshore pirate radio station Veronica. We don't know if our correspondent has been riffling through the album racks in Noord-Holland, but he's uncovered a gem with this. "Barring the SFA using the iconic Robin Friday at Cardiff image, the Wedding Present's George Best at Manchester United one and Mogwai's Zidane soundtrack (Real Madrid), have any other football teams been referenced on CD album covers?"Ī fine question, Paul, and one that has brought the most comprehensive and least digressive answer from Paul White. "Following on from your old football-inspired albums question, Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time has reference to West Ham beating Arsenal 7-3 on the album cover," begins Paul Baker. ![]()
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