Below the Belt (Boxer album)

Below the Belt
Below the Belt
Studio album by Boxer
Released	January 1976
Recorded	1975
Genre	Rock
Length	37:23
Label	Virgin, EMI
Producer	Boxer, Richard Digby-Smith
Boxer chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+^[2]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide	^[3]

Below the Belt was the first album by Boxer, released on the Virgin label in January 1976. The album attracted less attention for its music than for its artwork. Photographed by Alex Henderson with graphics by Richard Evans, the cover featured model Stephanie Marrian spreadeagled and nude but for a pair of shoes, with a man's arm reaching up between her legs and his boxing-gloved hand hiding her genitalia. The back cover at first showed Stephanie in complete full-frontal nudity, but later pressings covered her up with the band's belt-styled logo. The cover was completely re-designed for the US market using the band photo from the inside of the UK gatefold cover.^[4] The lineup on this album is a live show quartet with keyboardist Chris Stainton brought in during the recording sessions.

^ "Review Below The Belt". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 22 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 45.
^ Below the belt Boxer at Allmusic

[allmusic-1] "Review Below The Belt". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

[2] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 22 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[RS-3] The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 45.

[4] Below the belt Boxer at Allmusic

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Below the Belt (Boxer album)

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