In 1970 , the bigwigs at ABC / Dunhill Records had to figure out a agency to repackage yet another public presentation of composer Gustav Holst ’s seven - movement orchestral piece , The Planets . Holst named the individual pieces after Mercury , Neptune , Saturn , Mars , Jupiter , Venus , and Uranus , but mayhap the astrology slant seemed too obvious . Perhaps they were influenced instead by the futuristic spacey - cape of late picture show like Barbarella ( 1968 ) and 2001 : A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) . Or maybe they just think how capital it ’d be to have a model in a miniskirt and reinforced pantyhose squat towards the camera . And thus we can bring to you one of macrocosm ’s dependable unsound album cover after the start .
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