Monday, 4 November 2024

Hey, Kari-Ann


You may not know the name, but you'll recognise the boat race. Former model and actress Kari-Ann Moller was the pin-up adorning the cover of Roxy Music's eponymous 1972 debut album. Her fee to lend her image to a bunch of then unknowns? Twenty quid. A steal. 

Two years later she can be found on Mott the Hoople's seventh and final album, The Hoople. Her fee? Unknown, tho' probably a tad more than Ferry and Co. gave her. 


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5 comments:

  1. Charity Chic5 November 2024 at 09:26

    Shame that no royalties were forthcoming!

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    1. John Medd5 November 2024 at 17:47

      I'm guessing £20 would have been an average weekly wage in '72, give or take.

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    2. John Medd5 November 2024 at 17:55

      Good old Google:

      Bear in mind that £1 in 1972 was the equivalent of around £10 today. Average weekly earnings for men over 21 were £36.60, and for women over 18 £20.50. The average house price was around £4,000. Cod cost 33p per pound, haddock 35p and herring 15p.

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  2. Alyson5 November 2024 at 17:37

    Love the pastel colours in that album cover and how her blue eye shadow and pink lipstick match her (skimpy) outfit.

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    1. John Medd5 November 2024 at 17:52

      As with all Roxy records, they treated the artwork with the same importance as the music contained therein. As a result every cover looked like it could have been a Pirelli calendar photoshoot.

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