But
it was intended to be the cover.
According to a Rolling Stone Magazine item on September 28, 1968:
ROLLING
STONES BATTLE OVER ‘BEGGAR’S
BANQUET’ ALBUM ARTWORK
Record
company clashes with the band
over bathroom-related cover art.
The Rolling Stones are
in a head-on battle with
their American (and possibly their English) record company over the
artwork for
the cover of their next album, Beggar’s Banquet. The
front and
back cover of the double-fold album is a photograph of a bathroom wall.
On it,
the Stones, particularly Mick, have scrawled a variety of
fantastically funny things, including the album title, the name of the
group
(underneath the name of the group it says “God Rolls His Own), credits,
appropriate line drawings, slogans like “Wot, No Paper?” and “Music
From Big
Brown.” That’s the least of it. It is a fantastic thing, altogether,
very
Rolling Stones-ish and a beautiful record jacket. The photo was done by
Barry
Feinstein, the graphics by Tom Wilkes.
At
this point, Mick is adamant that
it will be the cover with no changes. But negotiations between the
Stones'
lawyer
Allen Klien and London Records are still in progress and may soon end
the
month-long delay in the album’s release date.
