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 Rolling Stones

Get Stoned

30 Greatest Hits-30 Original Tracks (1977)

The Rolling Stones

Sucking the Seventies (1981)

The Rolling Stones

Collection 1971-1989 (1990)

The Rolling Stones

Collectors' Edition (1990)

The Rolling Stones

Coca-Cola Presenta - Volumen 1 (1995)

The Rolling Stones

Coca-Cola Presenta - Volumen 2 (1995)

The Rolling Stones

Forty Licks (2002)

The Rolling Stones

Ten Licks from Forty Licks (2002)

The Rolling Stones

Live Licks (2004)

The Rolling Stones

A Bigger Bang World Tour 2005-2006

Special Edition (2005)

The Rolling Stones

In Store Sampler (2005)

The Rolling Stones

2009 Remasters (2009)

The Rolling Stones

1964-1969 (2010)

The Rolling Stones

1971-2005 (2010)

The Rolling Stones

Complete Singles (2011)

The Rolling Stones

No Spare Parts (2011)

The Rolling Stones

Grrr (2011)

The Rolling Stones

Blue and Lonesome (2016)


Robot girl












Autograph

That's the Stuff (1985)

Aerosmith

Just Push Play (2001)


Wild bunch











The Stooges

The Stooges (1968)

Mew

And the Glass Handed Kites (2005)











Masters of Deceit

Hensley's Electric Jazz Band &

Synthetic Symphonette (2000)

Revolver

Music for a While (2009)