#22: Jimi Hendrix and The Experience ElectricLadyLand Album Cover - New York City Central Park

On August 7th, 1968 Jimi Hendrix and the Experience spent a few hours in the studio recording tracks for what would end up on the album ElectricLadyLand. Later on that day, Linda Eastman McCartney accompanied the band into Central Park for a photo session. They ended up right here at the Alice in Wonderland statue in the heart of the park.

When designing the album artwork, Jimi selected this photo specifically to be either the front cover or the back cover.

While not an overly great photo, it has been said that Jimi selected this one as it was more about the subtle message Hendrix wanted to convey than the perceived quality of the image. In the midst of the riots and civil unrest in the US throughout 1968, Hendrix wanted to offer a positive statement involving the band and a multi-racial group of innocent children

This photo would end up as one of four different versions of the album cover artwork after much controversy over the original cover art, and the safer and more boring 2nd and 3rd options

Released two years before his death in 1970, ‘Electric Ladyland’ was only Jimi Hendrix’s third studio album of his career. It would go on to spend two weeks at the top spot on the US charts and provided Hendrix with fifty-third spot on the Rolling Stones’ Top 500 Albums of All Time.

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