Friday, June 3, 2022

Jim Houghton



The photo shoot for Cheap Trick's first album was conducted by Jim Houghton at the Steinbecker / Houghton Studio in Manhattan, while the band was in town recording with Jack Douglas at The Record Plant.

Jim Houghton

An alternate shot of Robin Zander was cropped into the eventual cover photo (and Tom's double chin disappeared)


 

By 1977 Steinbecker/Houghton had been in operation for ten years, but shooting album covers was a relatively new side hustle. Houghton had recently shot Ted Nugent, also on Epic, for his second solo album Free For All.




AC/DC posed for Houghton at the studio in December 1977, a shoot that yielded the images used for the back cover of Powerage and the front cover of Highway To Hell.








Cheap Trick participated in at least one more shoot with Houghton, which yielded the image at the top, and several others used for promotional purposes:


















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