Linda had suggested she should have a strong look to match the hard drive of the music. “We were looking to do a film noir sort of thing. was still tenuous for me.”Īt the dawn of a new decade, Ronstadt was recording the album that became Mad Love. I was still here on a green card so living in the U.S.A. Kosh says, “We were all flying high, living in L.A. Snapshot: Of 1978’s Living in the USA, yet another #1 album, Ronstadt is on roller skates. The album, with her great version of “That’ll Be the Day,” became her third straight to sell over a million copies, a record at the time. People asked, ‘Are we selling music or sex?’”
Kosh can laugh now but at the time, he says, “It caused a ruckus. You don’t need to look too closely to see Ronstadt’s nipples peeking through her shirt. Even when she was posing, she wasn’t posing.” That freezes her in the frame just as a horse is riding past. “There was a time exposure on the background and then we add a flash… a strobe on Linda. (“It took hours to organize.”) The photo chosen for what would become the cover of 1976’s Hasten Down the Wind was shot at night. Kosh, photographer Ethan Russell and their crew set up a shoot in Malibu on the beach. The designer and singer got along so well, it led to a follow-up, one year later… and a bit of controversy. But what I really want to do is sit down with the artist and just enjoy bouncing ideas back and forth.” “I make the point of gaining the trust of that artist and I want to get in the studio while they’re so I can listen to a few tracks. “I’m being hired, more or less, to be the conductor of an orchestra to work with the photographer, all the way from the initial meeting, to getting concepts organized, getting it finalized,” says Kosh. “I had never heard a voice like hers.” He was referring, of course, to Ronstadt, whom Asher managed and produced. “He said, ‘I’ve got a really great artist that you should meet,'” Kosh recalls. In 1975, Kosh, recently transplanted from London to Los Angeles, got a call from his friend, Peter Asher. Kosh has designed covers and other iconic artworks for a literal who’s-who of recording artists, including, just for starters, Eagles’ Hotel California, The Who’s Who’s Next, the ELO logo, John and Yoko’s “War is Over” campaign, and covers for James Taylor, Ringo, Rod Stewart and Bad Company, among his scores of projects. The celebrated designer-everyone just calls him by his last name-had already served as art director for one of the most iconic album covers in music history: The Beatles’ Abbey Road, for which he famously, and riskily at the time, omitted the band’s name from its front side. And one constant, for a long string of successes, was Kosh. 13 Bands That Changed Their Lead Singersīut her audience sure did as she evolved musically through a half dozen (or more) genres.Top Selling Albums of 1970: What a Year!.Eric Clapton’s Legendary Royal Albert Hall Residency Gets Expanded: ‘The Definitive 24 Nights’.Joe Walsh’s ‘But Seriously, Folks’: Behind the Scenes.Squeeze, Psychedelic Furs Set 2023 U.S.
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