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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Cristina Sleep it off (1983) |
Grace Jones Slave to the Rhythm (1984) |
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Adriano Canzian Pornography (2005) |
Magnum 38 A Tribute to Grace Jones (2009) |
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John Coltrane Interstellar Space (1967) |
McAlmont and Butler Yes (1995) |
Blur M.O.R. (EP) (1997) |
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Röyksopp Melody A.M. (2001) |
Kate Bush Aerial (2005) |
Bowerbirds Upper Air (2009) |
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Christian Vander John Coltrane - L'Homme Suprême (2011) |
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