The Girl On The Cover Of The Cars Album, RIP
aleen
album entitled "The Cars" has died of a heart attack. You know the cover,
with the girl at the wheel? My parents had this record and I always
remember thinking that the girl at the wheel was so beautiful. I found it
very interesting that she was also a musician, poet and writer.
Writer, Singer Medvedeva Dead at 44
By Alexander Bratersky
After nearly two decades living abroad, Medvedeva returned to Russia in
1994.
Poet, writer and musician Natalya Medvedeva died Monday in her Moscow
apartment. She was 44.
Medvedeva's boyfriend, Sergei Vysokosov, told authorities that Medvedeva had
died during her sleep Monday night. No official cause of death has been
reported, although Internet newspaper Gazeta.ru said Wednesday that
Medvedeva died of a heart attack.
For many Russians, Medvedeva was best known as the former wife of
controversial writer and National Bolshevik party leader Eduard Limonov, but
she was a notable cultural figure in her own right as well.
"She was a bright spot in our lives, and the stage will be a lonely place
without her," local poet and writer Vladislav Vasyukhin said Wednesday.
Born on June 14, 1958, in Leningrad, Medvedeva emigrated to the United
States in 1975, at the age of 17, and settled in Los Angeles. There, she
began work as a model (posing for Playboy magazine and the cover of the 1978
debut album of rock band The Cars), and married Limonov.
But despite her successes in modeling, Medvedeva was critical of the
American way of life and the U.S. fashion industry, both of which she
condemned in her 1987 Russian-language book "Hotel California."
In 1982, she and Limonov left Los Angeles for Paris, where Medvedeva found
work singing in a piano bar, and wrote for French magazines Figaro Madame
and L'Idiot International. In subsequent years, she also wrote two novels,
1985's "Mama, I'm in Love With a Thief" (Mama Ya Zhulika Lyublu) and 1989's
"My Struggle" (Moya Borba).
In 1994, Medvedeva returned to Russia after splitting with Limonov, although
she continued to write for his newspaper Limonka under a pseudonym. She also
formed her own band, Tribunal, in addition to performing with Vysokosov,
former guitarist for heavy metal band Korroziya Metalla.
Despite the unconventional nature of her music, which is usually
characterized as avant-garde, Medvedeva's list of fans is said to have
included pop diva Alla Pugachyova, who once asked Medvedeva to appear on her
annual Christmas variety show "Rozhdestvenskiye Vstrechi," and Channel One
head Konstantin Ernst, who produced Medvedeva's first music video.
Late last year, Medvedeva told journalists that her entire life has been
characterized by the pursuit of self knowledge.
"I was doing certain things unconsciously, but they proved to be the right
things in the long run," she said. "Maybe I had to go to the United States,
and to France, and do all of those things in order to understand who I was."
Thomas Conroy
<Ľ@˝.ľ> wrote in message news:quke4vsfhm3fue2ng...@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:06:06 -0500, "aleen" wrote:
>
> >I just read that the girl who was the model on the cover of The Cars 1978
> >album entitled "The Cars" has died of a heart attack. You know the
cover,
> >with the girl at the wheel? My parents had this record and I always
> >remember thinking that the girl at the wheel was so beautiful. I found
it
> >very interesting that she was also a musician, poet and writer.
>
> Bob Welch's "French Kiss" album.
>
> I dug her so much, I bought the LP and cassette. "Three Hearts"
> and "The Other One" were/are better albums.
I must admit, I had a bit of a thing for the model on the cover of the Ohio
Players "Honey." (she was nude and covered in honey). The LP contained the
song "sweet sticky thing" appropriately enough. Anyway, she was pretty hot.
The Wanderer
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> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:12:21 GMT, "Thomas Conroy" wrote:
>
> ><Ľ@˝.ľ> wrote
> >>
> >> Makes me wonder whatever became of the babe on the jacket of
> >> Bob Welch's "French Kiss" album.
> >>
> >> I dug her so much, I bought the LP and cassette. "Three Hearts"
> >> and "The Other One" were/are better albums.
> >
> >I must admit, I had a bit of a thing for the model on the cover of the
Ohio
> >Players "Honey." (she was nude and covered in honey). The LP contained
the
> >song "sweet sticky thing" appropriately enough. Anyway, she was pretty
hot.
>
> Looking at jpegs on the Web, the only place I saw honey on her body
> was her right hand. Even in full images of the jacket.
>
Lady D
> I just read that the girl who was the model on the cover of The Cars 1978
> album entitled "The Cars" has died of a heart attack. You know the cover,
> with the girl at the wheel? My parents had this record and I always
> remember thinking that the girl at the wheel was so beautiful. I found it
> very interesting that she was also a musician, poet and writer.
>
Your PARENTS had this record? Lord, I AM old. :\
As for the woman who posed, RIP. And thanks, Aleen, for posting this.
BTW, don't even bother with the tastelessness of the other two dudes
posting to this thread. lol
~~Dawna
The Man From Mars
I find it very interesting that your "parents" had this record. I had it in
the 9th grade.
Thomas Conroy
<Ľ@˝.ľ> wrote in message news:ejmg4vobnl97jvc1e...@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:12:21 GMT, "Thomas Conroy" wrote:
>
> ><Ľ@˝.ľ> wrote
> >>
> >> Bob Welch's "French Kiss" album.
> >>
> >> I dug her so much, I bought the LP and cassette. "Three Hearts"
> >> and "The Other One" were/are better albums.
> >
> >I must admit, I had a bit of a thing for the model on the cover of the
Ohio
> >Players "Honey." (she was nude and covered in honey). The LP contained
the
> >song "sweet sticky thing" appropriately enough. Anyway, she was pretty
hot.
>
> was her right hand. Even in full images of the jacket.
You know something, you're right. I just pulled the record out of my vinyl
collection, and am looking at it right now. The outside cover, which folds
out shows the model with the honey jar in her right hand and a big clear
spoon dripping honey into her mouth, held by her left hand. The longer photo
shows that she is nude, though her right elbow is covering parts of her
right breast, and the close-up photo covers up much of her right butt cheek.
In the backdrop, behind her left leg, is a band shot of the Ohio Players.
It is the inside cover which shows the model covered with honey.
Incidentally, the model's name is Panamenian born Esther Stobba; she was the
October 1974 Playboy Centerfold, then known as Esther Cordet. The album
photo was by Playboy magazine photographer Richard Fegley, who shot the
covers for a number of other Ohio Players records, including Skin Tight, Mr.
Mean, and Gold.
aleen
Jolie
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aleen
with it than I, as I'm sure nobody uses the term 'with it'), so he always
kept up with what was popular in music at the time. My dad also had lots of
KISS records, lol. And I'm amused at the conversation that has been
happening from this thread.
Love,
Jolie, who is digging through her counter looking for some honey
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Tee
<anti...@earthlink.net> waxed poetic...or not so much...:
>I always keep honey on hand :-)
>
Doesn't your keyboard get *really* sticky that way, among other
things? ;)
Rick Greenly
wrote:
>My dad also had lots of
>KISS records, lol. And I'm amused at the conversation that has been
>happening from this thread.
>
>Love,
>Jolie, who is digging through her counter looking for some honey
>
When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the coouuuch...
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got Dad's Kiss records ooouuut...
LOL
Rick - resident guitar hero
www.shutupanddrive.com
The Man From Mars
> I was only 3 in 1978, my parents were still relatively young and hip! ;-)
>
Got ya.
Nanc
her knowledge on the 70s and esp. 70s music.
Nanc
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Jeff Troutman
<Ľ@˝.ľ> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 02:19:46 GMT, "The Wanderer" wrote:
>
> >Yes but it still needed to be LICKED off.
>
>
So why didn't they use that for a cover?
Jeff Troutman