Glenn O’Brien was the editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine. But those who were in Warhol’s inner circle say otherwise. While the model is definitely not Jagger, many people were under the impression that it was actor Joe Dallesandro, who starred in several Warhol films. After the photo shoots, he never told anyone the identity of the man on the cover, or even whether the jeans model and the underwear model were the same person. It all began when Warhol arranged to photograph several men from the waist down. But the true identity of the well-endowed cover model has been a mystery for more than 40 years. Given that Jagger was regarded as the sexiest man in rock, it was commonly assumed to be his crotch. The initial release featured a real zipper on the cover - when you pulled it down, you saw the model’s underwear. The cover of “Sticky Fingers” - which will be rereleased on Tuesday, remastered and featuring alternate takes and live versions of Stones classics - is a straight-up crotch shot. Warhol ignored this, creating one of the most complex and memorable album covers in rock history for “Sticky Fingers,” the 1971 album that took the Stones from stars to legends. The band’s frontman, Mick Jagger, wrote Warhol a letter about the project, telling the famed artist, “The more complicated the format of the album, e.g., more complex than just pages or fold-out, the more f–ked-up the reproduction and agonizing the delays.” The Rolling Stones in 1963 (left to right): Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Keith Richards. In early 1969, Andy Warhol agreed to design an album cover for the Rolling Stones.
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