David Bowie stops Morrissey from using his photo as artwork
David Bowie has blocked an attempt by Morrissey to use a photo featuring the two of them as the cover art to his re-release of 1989 single, ‘The Last of the Famous International Playboys’.
As previously reported, Morrissey is set to re-issue the 7″ in April and was initially intending on giving it a new cover.
The cover in question depicted both Morrissey and Bowie in a 1992 photograph, which perhaps may even be the picture above.
Instead, however, Bowie requested to EMI that Morrissey didn’t use it. While Bowie holds no rights to the photo, EMI do own the licence to most of his back-catalogue, so it’s unlikely they’d want to upset him.
Below, you can see our own ‘Artist’s Impression’/quick photoshop job of what the cover may have looked like…
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