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Power Corrupts
Manchester band New Order released its second album, Power, Corruption & Lies, in 1983. The album design was orchestrated by one of the maestros of the Manchester scene, Peter Saville, and is a reproduction of the painting A Basket of Roses by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour. It's said that the owner of the painting, the National Heritage Trust, originally refused New Order's label, Factory Records, permission to use it. When the head of the record label, the late Tony Wilson, called to ask who owned the painting and was told that the Trust belonged to the people of Britain, Wilson famously replied, "Well, the people of Britain now want it."

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