10 Fascinating True Stories Behind Iconic Music Album Covers
2. Be Here Now - Oasis
The cover of the follow-up to the hugely successful (What's the Story) Morning Glory? album, in true Oasis and Gallagher, fashion is a wild and chaotic mess of ideas and items. 1997's Be Here Now sleeve also pays tribute to one of the most famous instances of the rock and roll lifestyle from another musician who was featured earlier on in this list.
A partially submerged Rolls Royce in a swimming pool sits on the cover, as a tribute to the story of when The Who's Keith Moon drove a Lincoln Continental into a hotel swimming pool 30 years earlier back in 1967.
The rest of the images on the cover are a selection of props which Noel Gallagher simply thought would look cool on a photo, with the selection of props being so random that a court decided, in a dispute surrounding the image, that it was too abstract to be copyrightable.
According to the album's photographer Michael Spencer Johns, in true Gallagher style, the shoot quickly became absolute chaos. Technical problems plagued the shoot, and by 8 pm the band were back in their more natural habitat of a local bar.