The Shocking & Censored Covers

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (1968) The British version of this landmark album -- designed quickly by Track Records to meet a production deadline -- had a foldout cover shot by David Montgomery of some 20 women in the nude. It was both praised and panned, but Hendrix hated the cover. His request to use a shot of the band by Linda Eastman (soon to be McCartney) had been ignored. The U.S. label, Reprise, put out a sleeve with a head shot of Hendrix, which later became the international CD cover -- partly as a posthumous nod to the artist's wishes, and partly due to the nude cover's hoopla. -- JC