Cover Art of the Week #32: Morrison Hotel, The Doors

Have you ever spotted your surname on a shop sign and felt the irresistible need to take a picture?
Don’t worry, it’s a totally justifiable guilty pleasure. And you’re in good company, too.

Jim Morrison had the photograph taken and decided that it was so good that it should go on the sleeve, and become the name of his band’s fifth album.

And there’s something that’s even more curious about this artwork. The record is actually divided into two halves, subtitled Morrison Hotel and Hard Rock Cafe. A picture of the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Los Angeles actually graces the back cover and inspired founders Peter Morton and Isaac Tigrett to name their very first Hard Rock Cafe after it - today part of a chain of more than 140 worldwide famous locations.

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