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David Bowie: a rare uncensored album cover for Diamond Dogs,

RCA, CPLI-0576, 1974, sleeve for David Bowie's 8th album, Diamond Dogs, featuring the uncensored version of the cover artwork by Guy Peellaert. Known as Bowie's "butcher cover", the album cover shows Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog hybrid in full across the gatefold.

Footnotes

Diamond Dogs was inspired by George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', evident in the B side track titles 1984 and Big Brother. Deemed too shocking for the masses the album cover was replaced by an airbrushed version almost immediately, making this original version very rare, as very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the album's release.

An archive of Charlie Chaplin photographs from the collection of Loyal Underwood put up for auction on Bonhams.com (x)

Loyal Underwood was one of Charlie’s stock players, appearing in 11 Chaplin from 1916-1923 and a final appearance and last screen credit "Limelight" 1952.

Top photo: Shows Charlie Chaplin during production of "Sunnyside", Charlie with Eric Campbell, Albert Austin and Loyal Underwood while he shot some footage for a never released film "Golf Links, 1917. Charlie used this idea in his later film "The Idle Class".

Second photo: Charlie posing with the wood nymphs from "Sunnyside" 1919

Third photo: Charles "Chuck" Reisner, Charlie and Loyal Underwood with Charlie during production of "The Kid" 1921.

Bella Coola Winter Raven ‘89