sleeve design: Pink Floyd

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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Band with gear


Pink Floyd Ummagumma (back cover, 1969)	I'm from Barcelona Growing Up is for Trees (2015)

Man on fire


Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here (1975)	Siniestro Total Ojalá estuvieras aquí (1993)	Robert Miles 23am (1997)

Dark side

Rudolf Serkin, Bruno Walter, New York Philarmonic Orchestra

Beethoven Piano Concerto No5 In E-Flat, "Emperor" (1941)

(5 × Shellac, 12", 78 RPM)


Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)	The Niwitz Dark Side of the Spoon (1999)	Richard Cheese The Sunny Side of the Moon - The Best of (2006)


Philip Glass The Essential (2008)	Scissor Sisters K-Mart Disco (2010)	Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon - Immersion Boxset (2011)

The sound machine


Phil Woods and his European Rythm Machine Phil Woods and his European Rythm Machine (1970)	Pink Floyd Relics (1971)	Jazzanova ...Broad Cast (2006)