Don't Quote John Bear !!

[Armando Ramos]

Guess who?



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November 11, 2007

...Four years earlier, another band on the lookout for female talent were Blind Faith, the short-lived supergroup comprising Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker and Rick Grech. Rather than settle for a portrait of four mostly ugly hippies on the sleeve of their self-titled 1969 album, Clapton asked a friend, the photographer Bob Seidemann, to produce a cover shot. Seidemann announced that they should find a nice female virgin, and they ended up with one of the most controversial pop images ever made: an 11-year-old girl with her top off, fondling a futuristic toy aircraft.

Mariora Goschen, now 50 and still with striking curly hair, recalls that she was coerced into posing for the picture. "My sister said, 'We'll give you a young horse. Do it!' We already had loads of horses; we lived in the country, in Suffolk.

"The picture was taken in a studio next to the Royal College of Art in London. It took about five minutes. The photographer had persuaded us that I should do it because it was art. At the time, I don't think I was even aware that I had any breasts. Then we heard it had caused a bit of a stir. Mary Whitehouse went on and on about it, and it was banned in some parts of the world."? The fee for appearing on this No 1 album was ?40, and Mariora didn't get the young filly or stud she had been promised. "But I suppose it paid for some hay and the travelling expenses."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/t...870010.ece