Rocky Graziano

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Rocky Graziano

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The cover star of Spent The Day In Bed.
His image was used as a tour backdrop and drum header circa 2015 - Stanley Kubrick took the photograph used as a backdrop & the one used as a single cover. The single cover was also used as a drum header in 2017.

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Italian American boxer, born 1 January 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died 22 May 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.

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Thomas Rocco Barbella (January 1, 1919 – May 22, 1990), better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer and actor who held the World Middleweight title. Graziano is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on The Ring magazine list of the greatest punchers of all time. He fought many of the best middleweights of the era including Sugar Ray Robinson. He was the subject of the 1956 film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, based on his 1955 autobiography, starring Paul Newman as Graziano.