Peace And Love Cover

**Thu May 12, 2005 9:06 pm**

any one know who he is?
I do......

**Thu May 12, 2005 9:30 pm**

for some reason ive listened to all the pogues albums and that one is my least favporite acpt for the limerick rake cover they did on the extended version

**Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:41 am**

Ok, Now that band members post here, I've always been curious... who is the fighter on this album cover, and who came up with the brilliant concept of giving him 11 fingers? Had Looked at it for years before making this realization (I know I'm slow.)

scott

**Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:46 am**

From a Hotpress interview with Shane (1989):

"Finally then Shane, why did you put a picture of a boxer on the cover of an album called Peace And Love?"

"Nobody seems to know who it is. He obviously wasnt very good cause he didnt get very far (laughs). I like boxin , watchin it I don t like doin it! But anyway somebody, I forget who, found this glass negative of this boxer with no name and we put peace and love on his fists. So he s like sayin Peace And Love or I ll bust your fuckin head in (laughs)."

Maybe someone from the band can say more about it?

**Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:13 am**

I'm a bit foggy on the details, but I think Simon Ryan, our designer, got the picture from a photo library. The guy turned out to be a Scot, by then elderly, but still alive and apparently not greatly chuffed by his new fame.

Simon Ryan is an often overlooked component of the Pogues story.

**Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:51 pm**

so this scot did he have 11 fingers for real?

**Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:10 pm**

D.MacG wrote:so this scot did he have 11 fingers for real?

Um.....No, that's where Simon Ryan comes in. :wink:

**Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:26 am**

philipchevron wrote:
D.MacG wrote:so this scot did he have 11 fingers for real?

Um.....No, that's where Simon Ryan comes in.

Simon Ryan, is that (his) name? "Ryan Art" is it? I've constantly looked for "Ryan Art" on the internet and it never seemed to turn up anything.

Aside from the Wake of the Medusa artwork, the only thing I've ever found were the original prints of the dog photos from the Best of and Very best of albums.

Thanks Phil, and yeah, his work is often overlooked. Personally, I love the photography of The Pogues and cover art all over.

Coop

**Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:00 am**

He did "Waiting For Herb" also, and the "Fairytale" Sammy Davis/Spider Stacy cover, and several other singles as well.

**Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:04 pm**

There is a thread about this somewhere else -Phil Chevron sheds some light on it . I am looking for the thread - this isnt it :cry:

**Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:08 pm**

philipchevron wrote:I'm a bit foggy on the details, but I think Simon Ryan, our designer, got the picture from a photo library. The guy turned out to be a Scot, by then elderly, but still alive and apparently not greatly chuffed by his new fame.

Simon Ryan is an often overlooked component of the Pogues story.

Do you remeber his name?

**Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:10 pm**

philipchevron wrote:He did "Waiting For Herb" also, and the "Fairytale" Sammy Davis/Spider Stacy cover, and several other singles as well.

For years I thought that was a woman on the Fairytale cover...sorry Spider! (I think it was the hair, and to be honest its mostly shot from behind...)

**Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:54 pm**

Can anyone confirm that the boxer on the album cover is the Port Glasgow Boxer Hugh Cameron. Empire Games Bronze medallist in 1938

**Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:59 pm**

Hugh Cameron doesn't have eleven fingers, so I'd say that rules him out. :roll:

**Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:09 pm**

The reason I ask is that his son told me that it was his father. And that he did have 11 fingers.

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