the cusp of a changeover, dramatised in same-page juxtapositions in this June 4 1977 issue of Melody Maker
The band on the right is UFO
A cover of the Love song! 1967-in-1977!
Astonishingly faithful cover, in fact.
Interestingly. in the same issue, Caroline Coon, doing the singles, more or less says that punk is over already - it's become a cliche, something the industry will be churning out as product by the yard
Coon herself had been through several revolutions of the fashion cycle by this point...
UFO, a few years earlier, put out a record, Force It, whose cover tangles up Old Wave and New Wave
The design is by Hipgnosis, which in this case probably means Peter Christopherson, because the naughty couple in the bathtub are Genesis P (ghastly ponytail!) and Cosey FT - this must be just as TG are getting started
