To drive the point home, an identical layout on the back cover features Frank's photos of the Stones themselves, shot on L.A.'s seedy Main Street. The comparison to the notorious Stones - jet-setting tax exiles, cocaine-fueled satyrs and perpetual outsiders - is clear. The cover shot, assorted pictures of circus freaks, is not a collage but a photo Frank took in 1950 of the wall of a tattoo parlor somewhere on Route 66. Van Hamersveld was working on a songbook with the Stones at a Los Angeles mansion where they were staying when legendary photographer Robert Frank walked in the room he was quickly recruited for the cover of the band's upcoming album. The album's chaotic, slipshod look captures the time perfectly. He general tone of the time was one of anarchy - drug dealers and freaks and crazy people left over from the Sixties, all defiant and distorted," says John Van Hamersveld, designer of the cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Seventies' Greatest Album Covers: Exile on Main Street
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