Swords, Sorcery and Skin

The Raven series was written by Richard Kirk - in reality authors Robert Holdstock and Angus Wells, who co-authored the first volume and then took it in turns to write the next four.


Chris Achilleos' sexy cover art for Swordsmistress of Chaos caught the eye of Kate Bush, who modified the costume (ie covered BOTH boobs) for her Babooshka video.

Sexy Disco Covers

Blonde On Blonde were Page 3 Girls Nina Carter (aka Penny Mallett) and Jilly Johnson, and they failed to have a hit with this surprisingly solid disco version of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, though the picture disc became the stuff of legend. Carter was married to Rick Wakeman, who probably doesn't play on this.


This French(?) 1978 LP featured truly awful disco versions of Pink Floyd tracks. Yes, the world was crying out for dance versions of Interstellar Overdrive, Have A Cigar, One Of These Days and The Theme From 'More' apparently. Or perhaps not. Still, the gratuitously sexy cover stared out of record racks and bargain bins for years, defying you NOT to buy it. I succumbed in the end and it was worth at least half the 99p paid.