For sale is the CONTROVERSIAL 1969 ERIC CLAPTON UK BLIND FAITH VINYL ALBUM. This album is typically included in top ten lists of the most controversial album rock cover albums. This highly sought after album is in excellent condition. The album cover is also in like new condition with light edge wear. The album features the songs: Hard to Cry; Can’t Find My Way Home; Well All Right; Presence of the Lord; Sea of Joy; and Do What You Like. An unusual collectible rock album.
This 1969 album is the only record released by Eric Clapton’s supergroup Blind Faith which included artists Steve Winwood, Ric Grech and Ginger Baker. The album is controversial because of the album cover features a young girl holding a a model spacecraft. The group hired photographer Bob Seidemann to create a photo for the album cover for the band which had yet to be named. Because of the impending moon mission, the photographer decided the cover photo should represent “human creativity and its expression through technology.” The visual he settles on is that of a young naked girl holding a spaceship which to symbolize the innocence of Eve in the Garden of Eden. The girl model who participated with the consent of her parents was paid in the photo £40 for the modelling session but requested a horse. Seidemann calls the photo “Blind Faith” which Clapton decides should be the name of the band. When the record company pushed the band to change the album cover but Clapton refused. So the UK record company released the album with a wrapper displaying the name of the band so that the album cover could only be seen after the album was purchased and unwrapped. In the US, companies refused to sell the album as originally designed and the record was sold with an alternate album cover design. The band immediately broke up when the album was released and the band only played one show in the UK. The album was the top selling album in the UK for two weeks before it was knocked off the top of the charts by the Beatles Abbey Road album. The model, Mariora Goschen, never got her horse although she periodically playfully renews her request when she is periodically interviewed about the album cover through the years.
