I was cringing myself when I saw the prints.
And so these faces were looking in the pool. And then I blew up these heads of the Stones. So I had a photographer with a waterproof camera go. Marshall had a house at the top of Mulholland and Coldwater and he was taking a house at the beach, so I took over his house up there and it had a pool.
(His son Nicholas Braun played Greg Hirsch in HBO’s Succession.
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After recovery, he began an acting career, appearing in TV shows like Law & Order and Billions. It was heady stuff for Braun, who, after winning a Grammy in 1974 for his packaging of the orchestral version of The Who’s Tommy, fell into the classic 1970s pitfall of cocaine addiction. Overnight, Braun went from a printer of hype stickers for record companies (“Includes the hit single…!”) to socializing with Jann Wenner, Lou Reed, Elaine Stritch, Richard Avedon, and Salvador Dalí. The story behind the Sticky Fingers cover begins with Warhol, who in the 1960s stewarded Braun, a working-class Chicago guy, from the mundane world of die cutting and print manufacturing to the hot houses of rock and roll, high art, and high society, which at the time were bleeding together into a new jet set. (Original copies of the album can sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay.) The album cover was a collaboration between Warhol and Craig Braun, who was known in the heyday of vinyl records as a designer of sophisticated cover packages, starting with the Velvet Underground & Nico LP adorned with Warhol’s famous banana print, which could be peeled from the album itself to reveal a suggestive pink banana underneath. The zipper pulls down to reveal another crotch in white underwear. The songs, of course, have been embroidered on FM radio for decades-with “Brown Sugar” stirring controversy to this day -but just as unforgettable is the seamy LP cover, which depicts an anonymous denim-clad crotch, an image arranged by Andy Warhol, with a real, working zipper embedded on the cardboard. This month marks the 50-year anniversary of the release of Sticky Fingers, one of the greatest and most notorious of the Rolling Stones’ 30 studio albums.
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