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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Christina Aguilera
Bionic (2010) |
Moonlight Breakfast
Shout (2014) |
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Carlos Santana
Santana (1969) |
Carlos Santana
IV (2016) |
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Elvis Presley
The Elvis Presley Collection: Gospel (1998) |
Pascal Comelade + Les Limiñanas
Traité de Guitarres Triolectiques (À l'Usage des Portugaises Ensablées) (2015) |
