phrenny
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Post by phrenny on Dec 5, 2022 22:04:10 GMT
Anyone know why the penguins were oart off the wyw cover , ads promos and single covers?
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Post by backwater67 on Dec 6, 2022 11:04:49 GMT
A lot of the albums had a theme or emblem which related to the album/tour. Piledriver had the gorilla, Supposing & Never too late the rockets, & 1982 the triangle with XX ect
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Post by curiousgirl on Dec 6, 2022 12:50:51 GMT
If you look at the Penguin in the artwork, it is also wearing red braces (to hold up trousers)
I have a memory that a Penguin is slang for a man dressed in suit, white shirt and tie. I can't find evidence this is cockney rhyming slang or one that Quo made up. They did invent their own slang too, being from Sarf London and all that!
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Dec 6, 2022 14:22:09 GMT
I'm not really sure how much input the band would have had into the album sleeve designs. I've got an official artist's print of the Quo album artwork and the recent book by him (Dave Field) where he goes into the background of all of the album covers he was involved in. That was his only Quo one and he said the band were just told to turn up somewhere and he would do some sketches of them and take it from there. The concept of the tree had nothing to do with them, although they did ask if he could do something along the lines of Roger Dean's work with Yes etc. That was their only input. Incidentally, he also designed the sleeve for the Reading Festival '73 album. The penguin of course, adorns both the Whatever You Want single and the reverse of the album and I think the so called 'Penguin Crew' came out of that. And we have a flock of them on the Living on an Island single. Maybe 1979 was the Chinese year of the penguin  As curiousgirl says, penguin can be slang for a bloke wearing tux etc, like a waiter in a posh restaurant. All guesswork though. |
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Post by 4th Chord on Dec 6, 2022 15:35:13 GMT
I'm not really sure how much input the band would have had into the album sleeve designs. I've got an official artist's print of the Quo album artwork and the recent book by him (Dave Field) where he goes into the background of all of the album covers he was involved in. That was his only Quo one and he said the band were just told to turn up somewhere and he would do some sketches of them and take it from there. The concept of the tree had nothing to do with them, although they did ask if he could do something along the lines of Roger Dean's work with Yes etc. That was their only input. Incidentally, he also designed the sleeve for the Reading Festival '73 album. The penguin of course, adorns both the Whatever You Want single and the reverse of the album and I think the so called 'Penguin Crew' came out of that. And we have a flock of them on the Living on an Island single. Maybe 1979 was the Chinese year of the penguin As curiousgirl says, penguin can be slang for a bloke wearing tux etc, like a waiter in a posh restaurant. All guesswork though. Facts only on this board please. |
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Dec 6, 2022 17:38:54 GMT
I'm fairly sure the penguin on the celebrity red carpet is wearing a red suspender belt (?)
Possibly some comment on celebrity and whatever the media or the public wants, even a penguin in suspenders!
As curious girl has said, there is the tuxedo/penguin connection.
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phrenny
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Post by phrenny on Jan 28, 2024 16:47:00 GMT
Thank you everyone!
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