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1995 ✕

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Whose face is on the cover of The Bends?

The Bends cover: the pale face and chest of a resuscitation dummy, mouth open, under a red RADIOHEAD band
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A resuscitation dummy. Stanley Donwood and Yorke got into the basement of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to film an iron lung, found it was a grey metal box, and filmed one of the practice dummies lying nearby. The blues came off the press a muddy mauve.

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