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 Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn (1972) |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Letting Go (2006) |
Emancipator Safe in the Steep Cliffs (2011) |
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Puddle of Mud Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love and Hate (2009) |
Rufus Wainwright All Days are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010) |
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The Beatles Please Please Me (1963) |
The Beatles 1962-1966 (Red Album) (1973) |
The Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album) (1973) |
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The Beats Please Please Me (1999) |
Blur Secret Gig 95 and Lots More (Bootleg) (1995) |
The Sex Pistols 1976-1977 (Bootleg) (2001) |
