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I never watched the whole thing, but I did look at clips on YouTube and yes, diabolically misconceived. Lisa Van Der Pump who was in Mantrap and before that, the "Poison Arrow" video, later became famous for being in Real Housewives of Beverley Hills and now has her own spin off show

Ah, that is a very good point - completely forgot about the infamous Morley ZTT notes (there is also an Ian Punman one for the album that did around the Nic Roeg film Insignificance, if I recall). I wonder if there is someone who has compiled all the ZTT liner notes and the ad copy - the...

Okay, we enter the age of postmodernism - irony and retro. A series of liner notes for ABC singles (but not the album Lexicon of Love) penned by singer Martin Fry. Note also the cute period touch of instructions on how to best care for your vinyl. All very much part of their anti-rockist shtick...

I always loved this one even though it seemed both silly and sad by 1980 or whenever it was that I picked up this 1972 compilation of The Doors, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine - another gatefold. Bruce Harris was The Doors's publicist but he really seems like a true believer - even more...

Another Loog Oldham job, even more garbled Twelve new blackbands, six in each hand december’s children, children of stone out of the heads: heads of stone that in the words of that folk singer whose name I forget contemplate, and meditate and speculate for you and bring new weapons for...

I like the geometric shaped photo inserts

Andrew Loog Oldham, who was a sort of composite of Simon Puxley ideologue and an actual hustling manager, used to do liner notes for the Stones early albums. For the Rolling Stones No. 2 he penned this: “It is the summer of the night London’s eye be tight shut all but twelve peepers and...

Fantastic! Actually that semi-disproves my contention that the proggy direction led to the death of sleevenotes (to make room for the abstract or surrealistic deluxe artwork) That said, I do tend to associate the fading away of liner notes with the transition from bands with a definite article...

Aforementioned Ferry friend Dr. Simon Puxley on the first Roxy Music album inner gatefold

There was a time when all long-playing records - and some short-playing records - had liner notes on the back. Obligatory it was. Sometimes perfunctory and showbiz-smarmy "introducing the band" jobs... other times wanna-be hep ramblings. Then people stopped doing them - late Sixties...

Another experimental electronic musician who made a record about prison This has been Creel Poned - below is the Mimaroglu / Alpha State blurb about the unofficial reish Creel Pone replication of this wonderful pair of Chicagoland "Paste-on" Private Press LPs. The first, "Labyrinth (Prison...

Rock manager extraordinaire Simon Napier-Bell (John's Children, Wham!, Japan) conceived this album

Pete Doherty did some kind of prison diary blog from Pentonville and I expect there are Libertines and / or Babyshambles songs about his experiences but I'm not going looking

Johnny's "replacement" in the Pistols was a jailbird not actually in jail but on the lam and living the life of Riley down Rio way - Ronald Biggs the Great Train Robber and Wandsworth HMP escapee

John Lydon got slung in the slammer on a visit to Dublin after an altercation with some policemen in a bar. The traumatic experience inspired this PiL song which references Mountjoy I wonder if "Four Enclosed Walls," the first track on Flowers of Romance, is also about being in the nick

There's a DVD of it now that conjoins the music and the photographs by Jim Bengston that were originally part of the same exhibition / installation

Minimalist composer Ingram Marshall made the album Alcatraz using ambiences from the now deserted island prison Actually reviewed that album in a column about New Age (smuggled in as much ambient, Pauline Oliveros and ECM as I could to avoid having to listen to / write about actual New Age...

Remember shout-outs on the pirates to the HMP massive I'd assumed that's where this Pascal collaborative alias gets its name, but apparently it stands for Hardware Meets Pascal (the accomplice being Thomas Hogan aka Hardware)