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Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Aug. 05 2000, 23:00 This question has almost certainly been asked in other places before...the answer is a different matter...a question that seems simple on the face of it, yet may prove more difficult in answering...it is... Who designed the cover for QE2? I can make guesses (as can a lot of people, I suppose) but I'm still without a definite answer...anyone able to help? Back to top

GMOVJ Group: Members Posts: 273 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Aug. 08 2000, 07:55 As Londonian, you're certainly not asking what does the cover represent are you ? -------------- Cheers, GMOVJ [URL=http://tubular.fodplanet.com]http://tubular.fodplanet.com[/URL] - The french speaking mailing list Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Aug. 10 2000, 20:08 Heh, no, I know what it is (obviously meant to look like the bow of the cruise ship QE2...some LPs even had a porthole cut in the cover). What I want to know if who designed it, who did the artwork. It remains a mystery to me... Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 07 2002, 05:57 I think its a boring cover. Just four colours, and most of them are black and white. He could have made it a bit more exciting. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: May 07 2002, 14:43 sorry I don't know the identity of the artiste(s) ... well the UK cover is a bit uninspired, but I wonder if this cover was ever released on CD: http://abacus.sj.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_359f6b96ed9b31f81468ff09d3/i-1.JPG Oliver -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: May 07 2002, 19:20 i agree w/ raven4x4x: a boring album cover. not very interesting (not a big fan of the album itself either..) i hope someone got fired for that job J/K!!! -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: June 30 2002, 19:50 Well, I hope your opinion will change, 'cause I think I'm going to use the colors of the cover for my new website. Always loved QE2. Was the first album I heard of Mike. Oh yeah, about the design Korgscrew (but I guess you already read that)... in the remastered version of QE2 it says something about www.public-art.net but those guys only did the re-design... just a mention -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Nov. 16 2003, 19:56 Quote (raven4x4x @ May 07 2002, 05:57) I think its a boring cover. Just four colours, and most of them are black and white. He could have made it a bit more exciting. You mean like the cover of The Millennium Bell?   Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Nov. 17 2003, 05:22 I think the blue colour fits the music very well... for some reason. I like the combination of colours on the cover. Sue me. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

wowser Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: Nov. 2003 Posted: Nov. 29 2003, 10:04 quite a good civer i'd say! simple graphic works well. the worst cover is Songs From Distant Earth -------------- Pointless act! You don't give a five hundred dollar tip to the housekeeper! That's inappropriate! That's inexcusable! Back to top

LivingForever Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: Oct. 28 2005, 09:05 Could have been a Hipgnosis job? Maybe not quite up to their usual standards... -------------- http://giggingforever.blogspot.co.uk Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Oct. 28 2005, 15:51 It's very striking, easy to spot, whereas Discovery would blend in too much with other CDs in a shop. And, IMHO, the tracks are excellent   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Sysiyo Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Oct. 28 2005, 17:04 I also think it's a very good cover. Although it does work better in the smaller cover format of the compact disc, I can imagine it being a bit dull for an LP. Back to top

Dafter88 Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: Jan. 2006 Posted: Jan. 22 2006, 12:04 First; The album is named QE2 after the boat Queen Elisabeth the second. Just looking at the cover and listening to the album makes sense. It´s a perfect cover which truly images the album! Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Jan. 31 2006, 21:07 this QE2 ship is made in Glasgow. (i will go there for gilmour concert and i look really forward for it) So then i will "arrival" the "wonderful land" "QE2" was born in. What was the month of birth to QE2 really?? Taurus?   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Feb. 21 2006, 20:53 Oh now look what you have started, are you out of your mind, I know you come from a far country but Holy xxxx.  I think QE2's first excursion was supposed to be from Portsmouth to the Rio Grande, but they had a crisis on the way.  They went via some islands where the captain had a foreign affair.  Five miles out from that wonderful land, Sally and her Guest, Mr Ridge, who was on his way to France, were listening to music from the balcony when the heavens opened.   My Word - this could go on for some time...... Ray -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Feb. 21 2006, 21:48 a wonderful land? right ray??   i know you are close   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Sysiyo Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Mar. 11 2006, 10:06 Quote (Tubularman @ Feb. 01 2006, 04:07) What was the month of birth to QE2 really?? Taurus?   Actually, her maiden voyage started in second of May (incidentally my birthday), so that would make her a Taurus (but she was launched in September, and launching is perhaps a bit more akin to birth, maiden voyage is a more like learning to walk or graduating from college ). They also had quite a bit of crises while building her, her original maiden voyage (scheduled for December 1968) had to be cancelled due to technical difficulties and in the end the shipyard actually lost money while building her due to the extensive repairs that had to be made. And I must add that technically the QE2 is not a cruise ship but an ocean liner, one of the last of that kind to be built. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Mar. 11 2006, 14:16 Quote (LivingForever @ Oct. 28 2005, 09:05) Could have been a Hipgnosis job? Maybe not quite up to their usual standards... The QE2 cover reminds me of Black Sabbath's Techincal Ecstacy sleeve (which is by Hipgnosis), most notably the inner sleeve. It also makes me think of Kraftwerk's Tour De France sleeve. When I think of it the QE2 sleeve is rather good, but it doesn't suit the music. It's more of Kraftwerk-sleeve. I can imagine Kraftwek doing an album about a boat! -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Sysiyo Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Mar. 12 2006, 02:24 It does actually bear some resemblance to the cover of Tour de France, now that you mention it (however the cover of TdF is based on Checkoslovachian stamp, so there is probably no Mike-Kraftwerk link here). Back to top

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