I think, with haggling, they gave them another three pounds each. Okay girls, can you take your knickers off?’ The girls all said no. David King and maybe somebody from the record company looked at it and said: ‘It doesn’t look good with their knickers on. Then I put them into some kind of grouping and took a Polaroid of it, to see what the lighting was like. “On the big day, all these girls came into the studio – I think there were 19 of them – and slowly started undressing. So they went to all these London clubs and rounded up all these girls by saying to them: ‘We’re taking pictures of Jimi Hendrix and would you like to be in the picture with him? You’ll make five pounds.’ I can remember that, that it was a Thursday night, because I was working in the daytime. I knew the girls were going to be topless and David King just said to me: ‘We’ll do it Thursday night’. I think the people from the record company arranged it all. “I’ve met a lot of people who told me they had the Electric Ladyland album but they’d never listened to it. But the record company in London looked at it and said: ‘What the hell is this? This isn’t gonna sell records.’ So that’s when I got the job. It was peace, love, harmony – all that stuff. She took a picture of a little white kid and a little black kid playing together. “Linda McCartney shot the original picture of Electric Ladyland in New York.
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