Tag: 1968

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Who’s Who on Electric Ladyland Cover (1968)

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The Jimi Hendrix Album ‘Electric Ladyland’ is 50 years old this year and one of it’s controversial and banned covers back then featured a bevvy of naked beauties posing on a black background. Several years ago I got asked if I could identify any of the models and back then my knowledge was lacking, but now I’ve been asked again and on revisiting the cover I realize that I can now name several of the models and recognize several more.

Back then the cover photographer, David Montgomery, said he found the girls in The Speakeasy nightclub in London, which may be true. But I know those I’ve identified were also well known glamour models appearing in many of the magazines back then and worked for the likes of Harrison Marks and Russell Gay. I’ve numbered the models I can now identify and the list is below, plus a few I recognize and have images of but have no name.

1. Jenny Lane
2. Maria Frost
3. Nicole Yerner
4. Cindy Neal
5. Rena Brown (Reine Sutcliffe?)		 6. Maya Zell
7. Ann Day?
8. Nichola Austine
9. Unknown but Familiar (Worked with GHM)  
10. Samantha Bond 
11. Helga Berk

The two blondes front left also look familiar, but can’t put a name to the lovely faces. Anyone recognize any other models?

One of the models named Reine Sutcliffe was interviewed in Melody Maker in 1968. “It makes us look like a load of old tarts. It’s rotten. Everyone looked great, but the picture made us look old and tired. We were trying to look too sexy, but it didn’t work out.”

Thanks to Les for contacting me and asking to look at it again 🙂

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Another Mystery Woman! (Original)

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Another unknown model photographed by Harrison Marks that I thought I’d already posted but hadn’t! This model appears late in the Kamera run with her only appearing in the penultimate and final editions Kamera No.88 & No.89 (1968). This shot is from a number of negatives I have of her, but was also published in Kamera No.88 P20, but in a slightly retouched version. As you can see in this shot there is just a bit too much on show for publication back then, although they seem to have removed everything including the stubble in the printed version 🙂

Another model that always seemed to wear a wig when posing and I have this model down as Unknown Model No.38 in my list of unknown models 

Update: I found her! This is actually 1960’s UK model Carol Marsden, so I’ll update everything and she’s no longer unknown 🙂

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Zigrinda – Britain’s Top Stripper! (Original)

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Zigrinda by Harrison Marks. She only appeared in Kamera No.87 (1968) and the glamour film ‘Zigrinda, Britain’s Top Stripper’.  The three images from No.87 are all from the same set of her wearing the white hat and black push up bra, but as far as I’m aware this shot from my collection never got published?

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Anna Verdi – Back to The Bush! (Original)

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Anna Verdi posing on the Casbah set for Harrison Marks and showing off her fabulous figure and full bush! Anna seems to have gone from a smooth mound back to full on bush in her career and in this shot she seems to be back to the full bush look 😉

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Ann Day – Hello Dolly! (Original)

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The very endowed Ann Day posing for Harrison Marks in sheer black baby doll and heels!  With the size of Ann’s tits there seems no point in wearing that little baby doll, as it hardly covers anything and shows everything, but suppose it’s all about the titillation 😉

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