Another portrait of Bruce (like this one). This one, though, is of his (fairly famous) backside.
So, is he peeing on the flag, or not? According to Bruce, “That was unintentional. We took a lot of different types of pictures, and in the end, the picture of my ass looked better than the picture of my face, so that's what went on the cover. I didn't have any secret message. I don't do that very much.”
There might be something to that ass idea. You might not remember, but The Boss started out as a skinny, 98-pound weakling.
It
was only after a major body-building program that his career really took off.
In fact, he still looks pretty buff today (at age 60):
The
peeing on the flag idea certainly wasn’t photographer Annie Leibowitz’s.
Indeed, the flag theme was Springsteen’s idea, she shot all sorts of variations
of it for him, and he picked the final version.
Annie Leibovitz? Well, she’s
probably just the most famous photographer in this whole blog.
Originally
known for her Rolling Stone covers, she would eventually become – in my opinion
at least – the nation’s unofficial portraitist.
Interestingly,
she’s also done her fair share of album covers as well, including several more
of Springsteen’s and others pretty much all over the place:
The
album? You’ve probably heard of this one.
I understand it’s quite popular.
As iconic an album cover as this is
bound to get some parodies:
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