Would Sgt. Pepper's be exactly the same without Peter Blake's cover ? At a time when full-length records do not mean much any longer and album covers even less, I found interesting to make a website on sleeve design. Long before videos, record covers were the visual embodiment of music, a way to put images on sound. I remember having spent hours as a teenager detailing the cover of records while listening to them. Later on, I realised that some of them had things in common in their design, revealing either a mere sign of the times or a more deliberate connection. Some records even obviously copied famous sleeves, as a tribute or as a mockery. Here is a collection of record covers I came across, which share some common visual features.
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The Beatles With the Beatles (1963) |
The Rutles Meet the Rutles (1963) |
The Beatles Meet the Beatles! (1964) |
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The Residents Meet the Residents (1974) |
Genesis Land of Confusion (Single) (1986) |
The Muppets With the Mupples (1994) |
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Various Meet the Covers! A Tribute to the Beatles (1997) |
This Happy Breed It's a Black and White World! (1999) |
Beatallica A Garage Dayz Nite (2001) |
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The Barkers Meet the Barkers! (2005) |
Various A Buddha Lounge Tribute to the Beatles (2007) |
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