Famous album covers in real life Pt. 3 | Clapton, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Suicidal Tendencies 

I saw The Force Awakens on 35m at The Vista.

461 Ocean blvd was taken in the backyard just to the right of the swimming pool. You can easily see @1:50 into the vid, that window he's in front of on the cover is the back right side of the house with the green covers over the windows now. The shape of that porch and the windows above it are all still the same. The tree he was on is just gone. The rebuilding of the house didn't change that part at all. Geez. that's one of the easier ones lol.

When you are riding a train from London to any northern destination you see The Battersea power station 🚉 and until the 90's it was fully intact. It was a fairly ominous structure & now its part of a very hip new neighborhood.

(Suggestions) Nirvana - Nevermind Date: October 28, 1991 Location: Pasadena Aquatic Center....now renamed...Rose Bowl Aquatics Center 360 North Arroyo Blvd, Pasadena, California *hard to tell which pool they used & it's slightly been remodeled since 1991. David Bowie - The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust Date: January (?) 1972 Location: K West Furrier (Fur coat/hat store) now Heddon Street Kitchen restaurant 23 Heddon Street (just off Regent street) London, UK

You can see the interior of the Vista in the 1995 film "Get Shorty," but when they walk outside the theater they're exiting the Aero in Santa Monica. I last went to the Vista to see "The Force Awakens" in 35mm.

Great video! I love the fact that in the movie Children of Men, the Battersea Power Station is featured in it and they've got an inflatable pig floating above it as a nod to the Pink Floyd album, a nice touch.

The Pink Floyd Animals / Battersea cover from 1977 - one of the most iconic rock album covers ever - was also the biggest photoshop job ever (long before there was such a thing) - and just like the music on that record - it just worked.

I discovered your channel not long ago and now I'm addicted !!

Enjoying the series Frank. Plus, anytime I get to hear more about Suicidal Tendencies the better.

I went reasonably close to Battersea Power Station on a bus in 1985. It still looked the same as the Animals Cover In the UK, we pronounce Z as Zed and not Zee. We still say Zee Zee Top though.

Something more that I read in a book about Hipgnosis- they wanted the pig in the sky to be real, and they took some shots of it before it broke free, but the sky was clear and boring. They later took some shots of just the power station with a more dramatic sky. After all the trouble, they ended up cutting and pasting the pig into the better sky scene anyway.

5:04 Great album cover location video, Frank. Regarding the Hindenburg disaster illustrated on the iconic Led Zeppelin cover, I have a 16mm reel of the disaster (B&W, silent) which was probably used in a school for historical educational purposes. There was also a movie made, 'The Hindenburg' (from 1975), which provided an interesting conspiracy-laden take on the disaster and it starred a lot of top actors of that era including George C. Scott, Ann Bancroft, etc. although the movie had very mixed reviews. Still, it captured the luxury and elegance of the airship and featured the original black and white footage which included the infamous "Oh, the humanity!" quote from the reporter covering the disaster as it unfolded before his eyes.

I always thought about stopping in Lakehurst. They supposedly have the outline of where the Hindenburg wreckage was painted on the ground.

At 1.51 you can crearly see the spot where Clapton was standing! The upper right corner of the pool.

Thanks Frank, Suicidal Tendencies is one of my favorite bands. "Lights, Camera, Revolution" is the album of theirs that I listen to the most but I've never noticed that the ST is lit up. I love trivia like that.

Great! Now there is A Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd xD

Damn it... when you said Suicidal Tendencies, I was hoping for the location of the How Will I Laugh Tomorrow album cover! Lol. Cool video regardless! 🤘

In 2010 my Army National Guard unit moved to Lakehurst Naval Air Base, which is now apart of Joint Base MDL. The Hindenburg site is just a field with a very small sign.

Excellent episode Frank outlining the what and where of these iconic album covers.

Informative and educational Frank!! 🤘

Thanks for the video,,really enjoyed it.

Love these videos !!! Frank your doing amazing!!

Keep these up, Frank! I really enjoy these type of videos!

Great series, Frank; really enjoying it and hope you continue with it.

I've seen the Battersea Power Station from a distance while travelling past it on a London Underground tube train, and also I also saw it while visiting The Chelsea Flower Show last year!

These are very cool videos Frank! Thanks for putting some ST in there too.

Hi Frank....great vid...love stuff like this. Good job...thank you. All the best from Newfoundland.

I love this series, awesome job, thanks!

With stuff like this comng out on a Sunday, no wonder I look forward to your videos. Great job Frank and you have found another topic which can run and run !! So interesting and I love it ! Thank you !!

Frank, I hope you will continue doing the famous album cover locations. So interesting seeing the actual sites today, thanks.

Great video again Frank! Keep'm coming. Oh and Happy Father's day everyone!

Love this video series Frank!

Hay Frank,, excellent episode, appreciate the hard work.👍

Loving this series

Great series man, keep up the good work. Looking forward to your next episode already!

Love these location videos Frank!

“But dont tell that to Lars” haha i agree, Robert rules. That Clapton house map thing? Ooooof. What gorgeousness environment wise. Lmao @ porn theatre. Damn. So many lol moments in this. “Zeppelin are no strangers to copyright”. Youre a riot.

Good series!! You tha man Frank!!!!!

Top notch episode. Thanks Frank for spreading t love for music 🙂

I love this series you're doing brother this is cool!! Here's a suggestion it may not be your type of music but Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva luckenbach album? Just to see how much luckenbach Texas has changed over the years. I guess you would have to do the second album he did from luckenbach cuz the first one is just a picture of the outhouse...lol

I know you're probably hearing this a lot but this is such a cool new series. Well done man.

I'm hooked on these album videos

Awesome video!

Hi Frank. Happy Father's day. This series is so cool. Congrats on your channel and hard work. Greg

Need more of these videos!

I like this series. Keep 'em comin. I wanna go to the train station at Manassas VA where the Stephen Stills group cover photo was taken. It's my favourite album.

Love this series

Woohoo - 2 of my suggestions made it: Battersea and Ocean Blvd.

So cool Frank I love your videos

I grew up in Jackson, the town next to Lakehurst. We used to go on school trips to the Naval base all the time. The hangers that were built to hold the airships are still there, as seen in the Google image, they are HUGE!

Fun stuff. Love to see more of these!

Fun post ..well done !

I tried to get to Battersea PowerStation, but there's no easy way to that section of town.

Crazy deluxe property on the Clapton album! Keep up the great work, sir. also: Habs FTW!

These are great videos. Some Allman Bros have some cool iconic location album art if you're lookin for suggestions. Great series!

Happy Father's Day. Awesome show. Thanks!

Another good one! Happy father's day also!

I'm going to keep asking for this one until I get it. 😉 The Duck Kee marrket in Oakland, from the cover of Creedence's _Willy and the Poor Boys_ album. Corner of Peralta St. and Hollis St. The market is gone but the building is still there, now called the "Bee Building."

great video man. if you haven't already done them, here are some suggestions: street legal - bob dylan my generation - the who everybody knows this is nowhere - neil young and crazy horse the notorious byrd brothers - the byrds

happy father's day my friend....best to you and the entire family....another great video...interesting what they're doing to battersea...they should turn it into a pink floyd museum...i'd wanna go (after i get back to canada)....peace and places always...rocky

I love this series of videos. Can you point out where the cover of Foghat's "Fool For The City" was taken?

Dude you could make like a hundred of these album cover/real location videos and I would keep watching them.

if you did division bell by pink floyd next, it would be amazing!!! rock n' roll forever!!1

Rad bro great video

Great research and history, Frank! Thanks! I remember there was a lot of controversy about the first Led Zeppelin album cover, due to the deaths involved with the Hindenburg accident. Shortly before that album came out I remember seeing the film footage of the accident and the impassioned voice over by Herbert Morrison. 'Oh the humanity!" So when I saw that album cover in the store I got a bit of a jolt at the starkly horrifying image.

enjoyed it...Memphis, TN

yes this is an entertaining channel, good stuff

Here's one for you. Journeys "raised on radio". Although it's a painting. It's a real place, it's the former KIGS Portuguese radio station along highway 198 between Hanford and Visalia California. Up until about 10 years ago it looked almost exactly like the album cover before they moved to the highway.

A couple of suggestions “Morningrise” by Opeth “Phenomenon” by UFO “Sin after Sin” by Judas Priest

I grew up 3miles/ 5k away from Hindenburg disaster location. While in HS I passed this location daily when worked on the base in the navy mess hall.

Can't tell your how much I enjoy these. Thanks for all the research, bet it was time consuming. What about the cover of Rock and roll by John Lennon?

Hey this is a quirky question but did the farmer get to keep the pig since it landed at his property.. is it finders keepers or did he have to give it back to the band?

461 Ocean Blvd. was extensively remodeled, with additions added, which is why it is difficult to recognize today. The cover photo was actually taken behind the house, the ocean side. Today it is the residence of the town's mayor.

As one of the Construction Managers on redeveloping Battersea Power Station, I can tell you that those iconic chimneys were all demolished due to safety concerns, and shorter reproductions built - these are the ones in your modern photograph - hard to tell the difference. Apple Corp. will move into the Power Station when complete along with many Retailers. The surrounding buildings will be predominately residential apartments. A new Underground (subway) will serve the site. A new ‘flying pig’ was made for publicity, I don’t know where it is though. A number of well known people have moved in already.

There is a deluxe edition of Animals upcoming. Maybe they can incorporate the current image.

Suggestions: Moonflower by Santana, Warning by Green Day, Little Queen by Heart, and The Joshua Tree by U2

This was an education at its best , thanks so much Frank for this vid. Who said that pigs can't fly. 🇬🇧 with love from across the pond 🇨🇦

That's surprising re: the 'Animals' cover. I thought the pig was superimposed on the photo. Really strange that they went to all that trouble to construct that balloon!

Aha, you used my Led Zeppelin suggestion, cool!

Love this video! Maybe an idea to take suggestions?

You should check out the creepy cover of BÖC Imaginos, one of m'y fav backstory of an album cover of all time

Not just not how Rush says “Zed”, the entire country of Canada does (and every other British Commonwealth country). “Zee” is an American thing.

Try the street where David Bowie stood on the cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The address is 23 Heddon Street, London. It's completely changed and the only thing left that is recognizable is the street lamp on the building outside the door.

In the description it says 361, it's 461 Ocean Blvd. Just a mistake I'm sure.

I believe the pig was actually pasted on after the fact because they were having weather issues, and the pig broke away. They just took a picture of the station with the best Skyview they could get, and added the pig later. I also read that the entire cover is essentially a collage, because of the weather not producing the exact aesthetic view Roger wanted, therefore pasting the pig and the tower on top of a Skyview. This isn't far off from what hypnosis does anyway, so its possibly true. This was my first exposure to, and favorite record by, Pink Floyd. Got it at a yard sale for 50c around 93. It was in perfect condition and I guess no one was that bothered by records at that time. I was only 12.

Keep on doing great work. Don’t worry about mistakes. mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)

True story.... when I was growing up in England, I live near the area where the building with the four big chimneys which at the time I didn't know the name of the building until years later anyway whenever I would go to school and back,I would see those big chimneys you would see them from miles.However on one particular day I was walking home It was not a school day I just minding my own business on that day, and I would see the same old building with those chimneys but then I would see something very Odd and strange right between the big chimneys..... was a flying PIG!!! I thought it was the strangest thing I've EVER seen.at the time, I've never heard of pink Floyd until two years later at that time a song called "another brick in the wall"came out and it became a big hit for them but I didn't make the connection between building, that band and especially that flying plastic PIG until two years later when my family moved to America to live with our extend family and getting used to the country, and the area and places like that, I'd be visiting various places,I just happened to walk into a record store that day so I started to just brose around looking into the record rack and would see a bunch of pink Floyd records and to my surprise, I come across one particular album of theirs where the album cover is of that building with the flying pig and I thought "WOUW" what do you know so I looked carefully at the record and found out that the name of the album is called "ANIMALS" and it was originally released in 1977,it was amazing so to this day whenever I would tell someone that I lived across the street from that building that years later I would find out that it's the BATTERSEA POWER building, they would say "wow, that was awesome" I own a copy of that album to this day along with other pink Floyd albums obviously so whenever I look at at that animals album cover it's a constant reminder of that day that saw a flying PIG in the sky!

The Battersea...look how they massacred my boy.

Have a look at XTC - English Settlement location: Uffington White horse (near Swindon, where the band are from) . England U.K

Hi Frank great video , how about checking out CCR ,s album cover of Willy and the poor boys the band are outside the Duck Kee Market ?.

That castle you show at the very end in Northern Ireland is also the basis of what they used for Greyjoy's Castle in Game of Thrones (although heavily photoshopped)

Van you find where Foghat shot the cover for Fool For The City?

1:52 the building on the left with the darker brown roof, chimney on th right is OBVIOUSLY the spot. The curvy palm tree is even visible, as is the sun room area directly behind Eric...Its literally right there. It says 451, but that has got to be the building.

*Encore Frank 🤟🏻 Encore Frank 🤟🏻* Please 😍

Animals is my favorite floyed album made me click this video

do Ace of Spades next please

Watch Judas Priest's 1982 video of "You've Got Another Thing Comin'"..also shot at Battersea.

Some other iconic covers worth following up on At Filmore East Pronounced Leh Nerd Skin Nerd Auto American (Blondie)

The Canadian English alphabet must take some space on class room walls, A-eh, B-bee, C-see, D-dee, E-eee, F-eph ….. ending in Z-zed.

"Zeppelin are no strangers to copyright" should be printed on a T-shirt , another great video you've put out.