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Hello, Guy.

Hello, Guy. So we're face to face today.

We're face to face.

Yeah, it's very nice to do that rather than Zoom.

It is.

We'll be in soon.

But until he gets here.

I read something in one of the newspapers the other week about Philip Castle, who

has passed away. He's an airbrush artist, or he was. And he's going to be interesting

for us because he did the Aladdin Sane cover. So he airbrushed Brian Duffy's artwork. Right. He did more than that, but that's a good start. Did he put the droplet? The teardrop thing in, yeah, the little pool. The little pool in his clavicle. Clavicle's a really funny word, isn't it? It's like, is that a musical instrument as well? There's a clavocord. Ah, okay.

Based on the same design as the clavicle must perhaps. So he did. He airbrushed in the clavoc into the clavicle. But he also, he also, he did that, you know, he kind of helped make his body look a bit silver. And in the middle gatefolds, you know, he's kind of stant, you see this full length, the lad insane. and he's kind of painted in, isn't he?

Yes.

It looks naked.

So he did that. But he started off. It's interesting. He was at Royal Academy of Arts. He got some review in like, oh, he was working for the Daily Express or something. And Stanley Kubrick saw it. and he really liked the look of this kid and invited him to his house and he showed him

what he was... something. And Stanley Kubrick saw it. And he really liked the look of this kid and invited him to his

house. And he showed him, apparently without any sound, the whole of Clockwork Orange. And he was

looking for some poster art for Clockwork Orange. And by the end of that meeting, Castle had drawn

what we know as the poster. The pyramids. Yeah, well, it's the A, isn't it?

It's an A, yeah.

It's an A, Clockwork Orange, done in that fantastic bubble writing that we used to do on our books. That's right, yes. That come from, I don't know where that came from. Maybe it came from that. No, it can't do. It wasn't quite the bubble writing. And then he then took those sketches away.

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