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.

Born to














Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run (1975)

Sesame Street

Born to Add Great Rock'n'Roll (1983)

Cheap Trick

Next Position Please (1983)










Car Talk

Born not to Run (More Disrespectful Car Songs) (2003)

Los Secretos

Algo Prestado (2015)


Blue lightning












Dire Straits

Love over Gold (1982)

Metallica

Ride the Lightning (1984)


Picture disc














The United States of America

The United States of America (1968)

Steve and Stevie

Steve and Stevie (1968)

Drugdealer

Raw Honey (2019)