The beatnik and the 'Bulletin: The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin sleeve

Wayne Coyne and photographer Lawrence Schiller discuss the cover of the band's eye-catching breakthrough LPIt's a picture you know best in Technicolor form, painted in lurid yellow and blue on the cover of the Flaming Lips' 1999 breakthrough LP The Soft Bulletin. As they prepare to perform it in its entirety, the band's Wayne Coyne and photographer Lawrence Schiller explain the origins and enduring appeal of the shot …The black-and-white original is an enigma: a scruffy figure stands by an ill...

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