What's the time? I feel old. License to Ill is 27 today.

"Around the time he was producing License to Ill, Rick Rubin was reading the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, in which touring decadence aboard Zep's private jet features prominently. License to Ill art director Stephen Byram remembers hashing out a design idea with Rubin during a Los Angeles to New York flight. 'I wanted to embrace and somehow distinguish in a sarcastic way, the larger than life rock n' roll lifestyle', Byram said in Richard Evans' book The Artist of the Album Cover. Byram reached out to illustrator David Gambale, aka World B. Omes, who rendered an image of a Boeing 727. On the front of the Beasties' 1986 debut, the plane's tail displays a Harley Davidson influenced band logo and reverse code for a certain lewd suggestion. The fact the rap trio's plane has crashed is only visible on the back."
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