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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Various Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
Various Sesame Street Fever (1978) |
Ricki Gal Chassidisco Fever (1978) |
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Boston Pops Orchestra with Arthru Fiedler Saturday Night Fiedler (1979) |
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Bidochons Saturday Night Bidochons (2008) |
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Ledisi Lost & Found (2007) |
Nina Simone To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story (2008) |
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Nancy Sinatra Country, My Way (1967) |
Emmanuelle Seigner Dingue (2009) |
