The cover was banned by several record dealers as "pornographic", while others sold it with the gatefold cover turned inside out, or in a brown wrapper. Hendrix expressed initial displeasure and surprise with this "naked lady" cover (but later told Rolling Stone magazine that he "dug it anyway"), much as he was displeased with the Axis: Bold as Love cover, which he found disrespectful. Track Records used its art department, which produced a cover image by photographer David Montgomery, who also shot the inside cover portrait of Hendrix, depicting nineteen nude women lounging in front of a black background. Hendrix had written to Reprise describing what he wanted for the cover art, but was mostly ignored. Recorded at the Record Plant, New York Remastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y. with the exceptions of B1 by Noel Redding, Joint Music, D3 by Bob Dylan, Dwarf Music, and B3 by Earl King/EMI Unart Catalog Inc. Electric Ladyland was the Experience's most commercially successful release and their only number one album. All compositions written and arranged by Jimi Hendrix and published by Experience Hendrix L.L.C. Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the final studio album released in Hendrixs lifetime before his death in 1970. By mid-November, it had charted at number one in the US, where it spent two weeks at the top spot. JIMI HENDRIX: Electric Ladyland, 2xLP, cover VG+ to NM, vinyl M. Released by Reprise Records in North America on October 16, 1968, and by Track Records in the UK nine days later, the double album was the only record from the band produced by Hendrix. The third and final studio album released while Jimi Hendrix was alive, Electric Ladyland gets the anointment to deluxe edition for its 50th anniversary, and it’s a near perfect three-CD, one. JIMI HENDRIX: Electric Ladyland, 2xLP, cover VG+ to NM, vinyl M.Įlectric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the final studio album released in Hendrix's lifetime before his death in 1970.
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