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Apr 23, 2015 · We rounded up 50 of the most iconic pieces of album artwork from indie releases from Joy Division, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Nirvana, The Smiths, Strokes, Killers and more and dived into their...
- Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley
- The Beatles: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Velvet Underground & Nico: The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention: Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- Roxy Music: Roxy Music
- Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of The Moon
- David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
- Led Zeppelin: Houses of The Holy
- Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
- Prince: Purple Rain
Two simple words: “Elvis” and “Presley” (the latter barely hiding that controversial pelvis from view): that’s all it needed to say. Caught playing the guitar and singing during a performance at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory, Tampa, Florida, on July 31, 1955, you can still feel the primal rock’n’roll energy from a young man ready to take over the ...
The Beatles, of course, had plenty of iconic album covers in their career, including Abbey Road and The White Album. But the most important and, at the time the most expensive album cover ever made, the Sgt. Pepper album cover remains a pop art masterpiece that has influenced everyone from Frank Zappa (We’re Only In It For The Money) to The Simpson...
If Peter Blake’s Sgt Pepper album cover is the most famous example of British pop art, then Andy Warhol’s design for The Velvet Underground’s debut, released that same year, remains one of the most famous from the US. It’s “Peel Slowly And See” banana peel was actually a sticker that revealed the phallic fruit beneath – a typically wry move from Wa...
As well as creating artwork for almost every Little Feat album, illustrator Neon Park’s distinctive style was put to unforgettable effect on a collection of Mothers material recorded from 1967-69. Having come across the September 1956 edition of Man’s Life, an adventure magazine whose cover pictured a man being attacked by weasels, Zappa took the “...
While many of the most memorable album covers of the early 70s were high-concept artworks designed by the likes of Hipgnosis or Roger Dean, Roxy Music’s approach was startlingly simple: glamorous imagery, more like a 50s fashion shoot than an album cover. Often romantically linked with frontman Bryan Ferry, each model had their intriguing own back ...
One of the most iconic album covers of all time, created by one of the most iconic design teams of all time. Hipgnosis’ main men, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, came up with the concept for The Dark Side Of The Moon, while their colleague George Hardie executed it: a prism refracting light into six of the seven the colours of the spectrum (ind...
Brian Duffy’s portrait remains the image most associated with David Bowie: his Aladdin Sanepersona an extension of Ziggy Stardust; the lightning bolt a representation of the “cracked actor” that Bowie felt he had become during his sudden rise to superstardom. Yet while Bowie exuded otherworldly powers at this point in his career, the cover photo wa...
Another one of Hipgnosis’ arresting album covers, the artwork for Houses Of The Holy was inspired by the ending of Childhood’s End, a 30s sci-fi novel by author Arthur C Clarke. A collage pieced together from several photos of two children scaling Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, taken over a ten-day period, the artwork’s eerie colouring was a...
At a glance, the artwork for Fleetwood Mac’s best-selling album is simple: drummer Mick Fleetwood working up some theatrics with the none-more-melodramatic Stevie Nicks channelling the Rhiannon muse that consumed her for a period in the mid-70s. Oh, and then you see the nod to his manhood dangling proudly between his legs. Not just a schoolboy pran...
An unavoidable image (and album) from the mid-80s through the rest of the decade, Purple Rainintroduced the world to Prince as an enigmatic presence ready to disappear at will into the night, all Little Richard pompadour and wry smile, as if in on a joke that no one else could ever hope to understand. Photographer Ed Thrasher had previously snapped...
Nov 9, 2017 · Something the records have in common: repurposed cover photographs. Hynes’s Blood Orange debut, 2011’s Coastal Grooves, features a 90s Brian Lantelme picture of Exotica taken outside Sally’s ...
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Jan 27, 2018 · Outtakes from the “Wish You Were Here” cover photo shoot. Decades later, with so many reissues of the album having been released, which photo corresponds to which edition of the album, is uncertain — to us, at least. Furthermore, several photo outtakes have been made public in the interim.
Dec 1, 2023 · The album cover symbolizes the emotional toll of the music industry, the absence of Syd Barrett, and the longing for genuine connection. The burning man and the handshake imagery create a powerful and evocative visual representation of the album’s themes. The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Sep 18, 2024 · From indelible images to perfect portraits, the 100 greatest album covers are just as famous and cool as the music inside.
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Jun 2, 2015 · Getting psychedelic with fussy covers and funny costumes. At their lowest rock’n’roll ebb, the Stones got photographer Michael Cooper to make a lenticular design, as found on the original ...
