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.

Space music














King Crimson

Islands (1971)

Benn Jordan

Pale Blue Dot (2008)

Tangerine Dream

Run to Vegas (2010)


Last prayer













The Beatles

Let it Be (1970)

The Rutles

Let it Rot (1970)

Mötley Crüe

Shout at the Devil (1983)









Laibach

Let it Be (1988)

Swervedriver

Ejector Seat Reservation (1995)

Gorillaz

Demon Days (2005)



The Black Eyed Peas

The Beginning (2010)

Richard Cheese

Let it Brie (2012)