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Striking similarity between David Bowie and cartoon man on Devo album cover


Joel Gion of Brian Jonestown Massacre posted these images on his Instagram. Coincidence or… something else?


Well, David Bowie did help Brian Eno produce Devo’s “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!” (1978). But apparently illustrator Joe Heiner based the cover art on a photo of golfer Juan “Chi-Chi” Rodríguez mixed with an image Mark Mothersbaugh had “procured from a local newspaper that morphed the faces of U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.”


Still, the resemblance here is striking.


More on the cover art at Wikipedia.

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