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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...
Jan 10, 2019 · The Stories Behind Rock's Most Iconic Album Covers. Nuclear Blast Entertainment President and industry legend Monte Conner reveals the true stories behind the most famous record sleeves of all...
Jul 18, 2024 · The 100 Best Album Covers of All Time. From Biggie to Beyoncé to Bad Bunny, from Nirvana to Nas to Neil Young, this is the album art that changed the way we see music. By Rolling Stone. July...
- The Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (design by Nathaniel Hornblower/Jeremy Shatan) This beautiful, panoramic view of Ludlow Street in NYC on the album cover of Paul’s Boutique did everything possible to put you right into the Beastie Boys’ world, making it look both funky and inviting.
- The Clash: London Calling (photo by Pennie Smith, design by Ray Lowry) A rare case where a parody (of the above Elvis cover) becomes a work of art in itself.
- Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley (design by Robertson & Fresch) RCA wasted no time in cleaning up Elvis, who’d look completely respectable on all future albums.
- The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (design by Peter Blake) Peter Blake’s pop-art assemblage on Sgt. Pepper’s famous album changed record covers forever, and kept many of us occupied for weeks trying to identify everybody at the ceremony.
Dec 28, 2021 · Some of the album covers were, in fact, happy accidents, while others caused serious accidents being made (we're talking about you, Pink Floyd). So all you have to do now is scroll down below, check out the greatest album covers of all time, and vote for the ones you fancied the most.
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Jan 27, 2018 · The team devised a concept for the cover involving two men — record execs fashioned in a style suggested by the album’s “Have a Cigar” — shaking hands to seal some unknown deal. Hipgnosis explained a handshake is often seen as an empty gesture, void of meaning or purpose.
