#popspotsnyc

[soundsof71]

Bob Dylan on Jacob Street, lower Manhattan, near the Brooklyn Bridge for the cover of Blonde on Blonde, by Jerry Schatzberg. Astounding story about this shoot at PopSpotsNYC 

[therumpus]

I think of myself more as a detective with an eye for detail. When I was growing up one of my favorite albums was The Best of Herman’s Hermits. It features a picture of them in what turned out to be the band shell in Central Park. It looked like a “classical” building so I’d always thought it was in England, but then I read that the photographer lived in New York, and I started to wonder. I used Google street maps, zoomed into Central Park, and found it. It blew my mind! I always love discovering stuff rather than being handed it. If I’m interested in an album cover location, but I look it up and discover that someone else has already discovered it first, I move on to a new one.

SOUND & VISION: Bob Egan