I wanted someone petite because it just gave the landscape a bit more grandeur. She was quite petite, very, very cooperative. Sourced from a London model agency, McMillan remembered: "She was a fantastic model. Of course, central to the eerie 'Black Sabbath' sleeve is the ghostly, enigmatic woman in black, who is seemingly referenced in the opening lines of the title track and opening song on the record: "What is this that stands before me? / Figure in black which points at me." For decades there's been an air of mystery around the woman on the sleeve, however in a February 2020 interview with Rolling Stone, McMillan revealed it was a woman called Louisa Livingstone who was around 18/19 at the time of the shoot. The timeless and highly eerie cover for Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album in 1970 was shot by photographer Keith McMillan at the 15th Century Mapledurham Watermill, located on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire. Listen to Kerrang! Radio The cover stars of famous rock and metal albums revealed, including 'Siamese Dream': He also talks about wrestling, his dream finishing move, the making of Atum, the band’s critics and more. Listen to Billy Corgan’s full chat with Loz Guest on Kerrang! Radio from 3pm on Friday 5th May. It's a lot of fun, and I think it's interesting to kind of revisit that part of the band in an unabashed way.”
“I think people are gonna really enjoy this record. My favourite studio work to do is guitar work being a guitar player by trade. “It’ll be a lot of fun because it means a lot of guitar work, which is my favourite. And it very much sounds like the ‘Siamese Dream’ / ‘Mellon Collie’ version of the band for this record.
I don't want to do that again! So, it'd be it'd be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10 to 12 songs.”īilly continued: “It's very interesting because people have been on (at) me for years to make a straight up kind of rock and roll record and I have to be in the right mood, and I was in the right mood after ‘Atum’. “We're hoping to make it just a single record. So as soon as I get back, I start working on the drum tracks figuring out what songs we're going to use if the 20. “We've already recorded 20 songs, at least the drums.
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