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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Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975) |
Sesame Street Born to Add Great Rock'n'Roll (1983) |
Cheap Trick Next Position Please (1983) |
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Car Talk Born not to Run (More Disrespectful Car Songs) (2003) |
Los Secretos Algo Prestado (2015) |
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Dire Straits Love over Gold (1982) |
Metallica Ride the Lightning (1984) |
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The United States of America The United States of America (1968) |
Steve and Stevie Steve and Stevie (1968) |
Drugdealer Raw Honey (2019) |
