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Une pochette que je trouve fort belle, même si le contenu ne me branche pas tellement: Le deuxième album de Human League.

Ah bon? C'est intéressant, car quand on la regarde comme-ça on a l'impression d'en faire vite le tour..

It's not all glamor, though. Ever since "the day the music died" back in '59, when a chartered flight claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper, plane crashes have ended the careers of some of music's biggest names. Patsy Cline's plane went down in 1963, silencing one of the greatest voices to ever crossover from country music to popular music. We lost the great Otis Redding to an airplane accident in '67, and just a few years later, singer-songwriter Jim Croce's career was cut short just as it was starting to take off. Perhaps none of the above were as startling as Lynyrd Skynyrd's horrific 1977 plane crash.

Just like a Mad cartoon, the fun is in the details. The plane's tail number, 3MTA3, spells "Eat Me" backward. The Beastie Boys logo on the vertical stabilizer was intentionally designed to evoke the Harley-Davidson logo. Even the album's title was a pun on James Bond's notorious license to kill. This wasn't uncommon slang, either: Def Jam label mates and Beastie friends Run-DMC had a top 40 hit with "You Be Illin'" just two months prior to License to Ill's release.