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A few weeks ago I took in the film Control, the biopic pic about Ian Curtis by Anton Corbijn. While I loved it, seriously loved it, something in the film has been bothering me.

There was a poster on the wall at the very beginning of the film. it only showed the bottom half unfortunately but it struck me as very familiar. See the lineup and arrangement of people on the Pulp cover of His 'n Hers? The poster on the wall was identical in lineup but was obviously not of this pulp album. The camera never showed the top half of the poster (nor was it in focus) so I couldn't figure out who the poster was of. But since this was at the beginning of the film (and as stated above the film was so captivating), I forgot about it until Pulp popped up on my ipod later.

Fade back to 1994 when I saw Pulp on this His 'n Hers tour at the Vic. I tore this very same cover art off the door of the Vic and had it signed by Jarvis Cocker and the rest of the band. Jarvis wrote on the poster: "It took ages to get it like this." At the time, I thought he was referring to the gorgeous airbrushing work. He must have been referring to the whole thing, the lineup, the artwork, the whole concept. Now the problem is... I still don't know what the "original" poster was that Debbie had up on the wall of her room. Does this pulp cover art look at all familiar to any of you for a different reason?

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