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From full frontal to just plain naughty, we take a look at nude (and sometimes controversial) album covers over the years.(Warning: Explicit content)
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Rihanna recently released the cover art for her upcoming seventh studio album Unapologetic. It features the singer baring all with words written across her body. Very hot!
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Nirvana's Nevermind cover clearly showed an infant's (Spencer Elden) penis. Chain stores such as Wal-Mart, and K-Mart in the US were highly offended and initially refused to carry Nevermind. However eventually due to such high demand, Nirvana compromised and put a sticker that read "Featuring 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Come As You Are' and 'Lithium'" over the genitals. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Die Antwoord's second studio album Ten$Ion features a nude Yo-Landi eating what looks like a raw heart. Controversial? Yes. But what's new?
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Known for being controversial, the cover art for Bowie's Diamond Dogs featured a half-dog, half-Bowie figure painted by Guy Peellaert. Deemed too controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid's genitalia, it was later airbrushed out. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Soon after posting the cover image for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on Twitter, West said that retail stores will refuse to sell his album in the United States. However, according to the Los Angeles Times, the image was not censored, but there was only an effort to convince Kanye West to use another image, since some stores could boycott the album's release. (Source: Wikipedia)
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The intended artwork for Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland for the UK version did not arrive in time to press the album, so a cover of naked women lounging in front of a black background was issued in its place. The US cover by Karl Ferris, which Hendrix had intended, has since become the official cover of Electric Ladyland internationally. (Source: Wikipedia)
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On Australian morning show Sunrise Christina explains her cover for new EP Lotus: "When I look at it I don’t even see nudity — I see beautiful light… I wanted to do something that didn't focus anything on fashion, or making a statement, or wearing labels or having anything to do with anything superficial. I wanted it to be raw and honest and real." Well, there you have it...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers' fourth studio album, Mother's Milk, features a black and white photograph of the band sprawled across the arms of a larger naked woman. And although a rose conceals one of her nipples, several US chains refused to sell the record because of too much nudity. A stricter censored version was released for some retailers, featuring the band members in far larger proportion than the original. (Source: Wikipedia)
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The Strokes' original cover art for Is This It featured a photograph of a woman's nude bottom and hip, with a leather-gloved hand suggestively resting on it. Copies of this album were banned and the cover art was changed to a microscopic close-up of particle collisions. How original... (Source: Wikipedia)
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Houses of the Holy was Led Zeppelin's fifth studio and released in March 1973. The cover features two naked siblings and was either banned or unavailable in some parts of the Southern United States for several years. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Katy Perry decided to go semi-nude on the cover of her third studio album, Teenage Dream. It shows Katy lying naked on clouds of cotton candy and was released with a different cover in some countries due to its explicit nature.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono went for full frontal nudity on the front cover of album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, while the rear cover featured them from behind. This was apparently too much for some to bear (pun intended), as the album was sold in a plain brown wrapper and copies of the album were impounded as obscenity in several jurisdictions. (Source: Wikipedia)
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