On the 15th time, a gust of wind caught up and blew the fire straight into his face. Normally, with a fire shot, somebody's moving. As you can imagine, it's a very unpleasant experience being set on fire, and it's very dangerous because you're standing still. Aubrey Powell told Rolling Stone in 2017: '(Rondell) agreed to be set on fire a number of times. Decades before the advent of CGI, one of the stuntmen had to be set on fire wearing a flame-retardant suit and Rondell drew the proverbial short straw. The photograph was taken by Aubrey 'Po' Powell of Hipgnosis at The Burbank Studios in California. The two businessmen shaking hands on the iconic artwork to Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' were stuntmen Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers.

For life goes fast, and I can still see you in my mind's eye wearing crisp white dresses in a stranger's backyard, looking like little Mother Mary's, smiling and laughing into the sun.' So thank you thank you thank you Ali and LySandra, we adore you, and having you be a part of today's launch brings tears to my eyes. Which tells me their coming together, and the beauty that Melodie's shot captures, of youth and innocence, was meant to be SP's own, personal lucky star. What's amazing is their chemistry with one another still leaps through the camera to this day and yet if memory serves they'd never met before that Siamese shoot. Never realizing that this moment in time would forever tie us, and go on to become such an iconic image in rock history. He wrote: 'On such a special day in SP history, I want to take a moment to thank Ali and LySandra, who you might know were the little girls that I stood by and watched have their picture taken some 23 years ago (on what was a perfect LA afternoon). When the classic Smashing Pumpkins line-up reformed for a tour in 2018, Billy Corgan shared a photo of Laenger and Roberts as adults recreating the iconic artwork. The two young girls on the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins are called Ali Laenger and Lysandra Roberts. The Smashing Pumpkins – 'Siamese Dream' (1993) But, yeah, I thought it was a very nice cover.' It made everything else look big.' Livingstone told the magazine: 'When I saw the cover, I thought it was quite interesting, but I thought, 'Well, that could be anybody,' so it's not like I got any kind of ego buzz out of it. I wanted someone petite because it just gave the landscape a bit more grandeur.

She was quite petite, very, very cooperative. Sourced from a London model agency, McMillan remembered: 'She was a fantastic model. Of course, central to the eerie 'Black Sabbath' sleeve is the ghostly, enigmatic woman in black, who is seemingly referenced in the opening lines of the title track and opening song on the record: 'What is this that stands before me? / Figure in black which points at me.' For decades there's been an air of mystery around the woman on the sleeve, however in a February 2020 interview with Rolling Stone, McMillan revealed it was a woman called Louisa Livingstone who was around 18/19 at the time of the shoot. The timeless and highly eerie cover for Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album in 1970 was shot by photographer Keith McMillan at the 15th Century Mapledurham Watermill, located on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire.

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