{"id":19874,"date":"2010-08-16T06:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=19874"},"modified":"2010-08-14T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T05:30:19","slug":"babel-fantastic-aldridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19874","title":{"rendered":"Babel, Aldridge, Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/adridge02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Who came to see me for a job. Then Cream. Then the Stones. And then The Beatles.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pictured, cover for Elton John\u2019s 1975 concept album <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/ad9gKP\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy<\/em><\/a> by designer\/illustrator Alan Aldridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/adridge01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Aldridge interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerarts.co.uk\/in_depth\/interviews\/alan_aldridge\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> Book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/aPVqDq\"  target=\"_blank\">The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes<\/a><\/em> here. <em>Babel<\/em> track, below.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"100\" height=\"110\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpCigLI4ryo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpCigLI4ryo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100\" height=\"110\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Elton John: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/biCQox\" target=\"_blank\">Tower of Babel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Babel, Aldridge, Fantastic\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19874\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Who came to see me for a job. Then Cream. Then the Stones. And then The Beatles.&#8217; Pictured, cover for Elton John\u2019s 1975 concept album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by designer\/illustrator Alan Aldridge. Aldridge interview here. Book, The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes here. Babel track, below. Elton John: Tower of Babel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,51,125],"tags":[58,123],"class_list":["post-19874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","category-illustration","category-music","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19874"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19897,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions\/19897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}