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''Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead'' was the first compilation album from the Grateful Dead. It was first released on LP in February 1974. The release was a ploy for Warner Bros. Records to cash in on the escalating popularity of the band (based on the sales of ''Workingman's Dead'' and ''American Beauty'').〔''Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip'' . Jake Woodward, et al. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003, pg. 165.〕 Four of the tracks were not original Dead album studio recordings. This "Turn On Your Love Light" first appeared on the album ''The Big Ball'', which was a loss leader sampler distributed by Warner Bros.; it had also appeared in longer form on ''Live/Dead''. "One More Saturday Night" was taken from the band's live release ''Europe '72''. And, "Mexicali Blues" was actually a track from guitarist Bob Weir's solo release (but essentially a Dead album) ''Ace''. The version of "St Stephen" on the European release of ''Skeletons from the Closet'' is the identical recording from the ''Live/Dead'' LP with the long jam in the middle edited out. Warner Bros. released the album on CD and cassette in 1988 before re-releasing the LP in 1990. The album would be later re-released on by Rhino Records on May 24, 2004 as part of a greatest hits series by various bands. It contains the complete "Love Light" from ''Live/Dead''. ''Skeletons from the Closet'' is the Dead's best-selling album, going triple platinum in the United States. ==Album cover art== The artwork for the front and back covers of the album was created by John Van Hamersveld. The back cover depicts three men playing cards, with a globe in the center of the table. The futuristic Dymaxion car designed in 1933 by U.S. inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller is parked outside in the background. The three men appear as Marlon Brando from ''The Wild One'', a long-haired bearded man in a graduation cap and gown and Cesar Romero as The Cisco Kid. The front cover features the Roman goddess of fertility, Venus, from the painting by Sandro Botticelli, ''The Birth of Venus''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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