“Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal”
In the run up to the release of the David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976) box set, we’re running a week by week album focus for the LPs contained within it.
This week we’re looking at Diamond Dogs and today we’re picking up from yesterday, with a look at another artwork created for the album by Guy Peellaert.
The artwork we’re talking about was apparently produced originally for the inner gatefold of the sleeve. In the event a photomontage of a cityscape by Leee Black Childers was used instead.
Once again the painting Peellaert produced was based on photographs by Terry O’Neill of Bowie and a leaping dog, the iconic shot in our montage is from the same session.
The Peellaert image was reproduced as a limited edition poster by Mainman and sold through the Bowie fanclub in the mid 70s, along with the more familiar cover art, which was even more heavily censored than the actual sleeve.
The other inset picture in our montage is of Peellaert presenting Bowie with the first version of the artwork, soon after completion.
Meanwhile don’t forget you can listen to Diamond Dogs via the Who Can I Be Now? playlist here.
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