Album Cover Face Off: Round 5

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Originally Posted by vivfox

That day in Nov. of 1985 when I brought home the RAL album and showed it to my best friend we laughed and ranked on that cover photo for days on end. The whole thing is airbrushed. Airbrushed to make Stevie look thin and airbrushed to make her face look thin when in real life she was a s fat as I am now!

No way, she wasn't that fat yet. The weight piled on big time after the RAL tour. Check out what a slug she was during TOSOTM and Timespace tours and press. And I love the RAL cover, it conveys a misty faraway-ness. It reminds me of some sort of a shimmering weird mirage, and then suddenly she spins into it. Dreamy and sort of unreal, and an odd play on her gauzy chiffon image because she is now in a bulky coat and hat. Only the small lace fringe on the hat brim harkens back to She of the Leather and Lace.