I was wondering who the waitress on the cover of the Supertramp album, Breakfast in America, and what happened to her.
Well there seems to be a website called Sleevage that is a library of album art. So I found from that site:
http://sleevage.com/supertramp-breakfast-in-america/
"If Doud had the vision and ambition, cover designer Mike Haggerty had the chops to pull it off. He assembled the cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery, eggboxes, vinegar, ketchup and mustard bottles and spray painted them all white. Haggerty’s original instinct was to cast a busty young stunner as the waitress but the band preferred Kate Murtagh, whose bingo-wings and manic smile contribute so much to the cover.
It’s the first time I’ve thought about what an important American archetype the diner waitress is, almost as ubiquitous as the cowboy, the cheerleader and the policeman. Sometimes she’s beautiful and sometimes she’s motherly – but she’s always street smart and careworn."
So who is Kate Murtagh and what's she up to?
From Wikipedia:
"Kate Murtagh (born October 29, 1920) is an American actress who has acted in such films as The Night Strangler (1973), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), The Car (1977), and Doctor Detroit (1983).
Her television appearances were on Daniel Boone, My Three Sons, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone andHighway to Heaven.
Murtagh is pictured on the front and back covers of the English rock groupSupertramp's 1979 multi-platinum recording,Breakfast In America. She is portrayed on the front cover as a waitress named "Libby," holding a tall glass of orange juice, in place of the Statue of Liberty in an illustrated depiction of New York City.[1]
She is a native of Los Angeles, California."
http://www.awmok.com/2010/03/24/26329/
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