Rock and Roll landmarks, pt.1: Mapledurham Watermill
Mon, Feb 15 2010 05:12
| Rock-and-Roll-Landmarks-series
We love seeing real life locations from classic album covers, so we'd like to welcome you to an irregular new series where we take a look at genuine Rock and Roll landmarks. No Abbey Road, we promise.
Mapledurham Watermill is the surprisingly idyllic place where the cover for Black Sabbath's first album was shot. This 15th century mill is featured in the Domesday book, and still produces flour today.
We always thought this cover was more sinister and unsettling than any of Sabbath's other album artwork - even the ones with Ozzy's face on them. The sense that this is a place you really don't want to trespass on is so brilliantly captured, it reminds us of the Blair Witch Project 30 years before it was actually filmed.
Mapledurham Watermill is located outside London near Reading, so we may pop out there to perform a quick Satanic ritual before bedtime tonight. We'll have to see if our robes are back from the cleaners.
Just kidding. We never wash our robes.
Photograph by Chris Wood.
Mapledurham Watermill is the surprisingly idyllic place where the cover for Black Sabbath's first album was shot. This 15th century mill is featured in the Domesday book, and still produces flour today.
We always thought this cover was more sinister and unsettling than any of Sabbath's other album artwork - even the ones with Ozzy's face on them. The sense that this is a place you really don't want to trespass on is so brilliantly captured, it reminds us of the Blair Witch Project 30 years before it was actually filmed.
Mapledurham Watermill is located outside London near Reading, so we may pop out there to perform a quick Satanic ritual before bedtime tonight. We'll have to see if our robes are back from the cleaners.
Just kidding. We never wash our robes.
Photograph by Chris Wood.
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