So pleased to have acquired a copy of this extremely rare Daily Telegraph Magazine from 1968. The cover girl is none other than Marianne Faithfull, striking a comic strip superhero pose as 'Morgan Le Faythful' just prior to the release of her film The Girl on a Motorcycle. The cover was designed by British pop artist Peter Blake, who took his inspiration for Marianne's character from the Arthurian legend of Morgan Le Fay - (come on her dragon to regenerate a decaying world). To produce the poster, Blake painted upon an enlargement of a photograph by Hans Feurer, he also had a lot of help from his wife, scupltress Jann Haworth - who made the dragon and painted it in fairground colours, she also created Marianne's sorceress costume! The cover was released by the Telegraph for sale as a poster measuring 20"x 30" for the bargain price of 3s 6d. in april of '68. (Where are they all now I wonder ?).
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(Images scanned by Sweet Jane from The Daily Telegraph 10th April 1968)
Amazing, bizarre, whimsical, delightful! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI've got the poster - found on ebay a few years ago - but not the mag. Have to look out for that!
ReplyDeleteYou have the actual poster! ...now that's what I call a great ebay find!!! Glad to hear that at least one of them survived the 60's! There's a good article about the poster craze of the time in the magazine ( 4 pages plus pictures )
ReplyDeleteHi, I run a blog about Marianne at www.mariannefaithfull.fm and have been looking for a HQ version of this for ages. Would you be able to provide a scan of just the picture for my blog? Of course I will link back to yours when I post it. x Maggie
ReplyDeleteHi Maggie,
Deleteyeah, i'll do that when I get the time and post it here for you ; )