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They're images you've seen a thousand times, but what do they mean, and how did they stop up on the cover of your favourite ever albums?
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We rounded up fifty of the most iconic pieces of album artwork from indie releases from Joy Partitioning, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Nirvana, The Smiths, Strokes, Killers and more and dived into their back stories. Some of the tales of these covers' creation are as interesting as the albums themselves…
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The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
The Smiths – Meat Is Murder: The original photograph of this soldier, Marine Corporal Michael Wynn, was taken in 1967. He had the words "Make war not love" inscribed on his helmet. It was used every bit the image for Emile de Antonio's physician 'In the Year of the Pig' in 1968, simply The Smiths inverse the wording to "Meat is Murder" for their '85 anthology. Wynn is reportedly still alive and living in Commonwealth of australia.
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Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
Amy Winehouse – Back To Black: Amy arrived 4 hours belatedly to this shoot, having been partying all night at her friend's wedding ceremony. Shot in a black room at lensman Mischa Richter's firm in Kendal Rising, which had blackboard paint on the cupboards, this was the last shot of the day, with early evening lite streaming through a bay window to the correct. It was the last time Richter saw Amy.
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Nirvana – Nevermind
Nirvana – Nevermind: Conceived after Cobain and Grohl watched a program on water births, the iconic sleeve was eventually shot in a public swimming pool with three-calendar month-old baby Spencer Eldon. When concerns regarding the image showing the infant's penis were raised, Cobain suggested a sticker saying "If you're offended past this, you must be a cupboard paedophile".
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Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Kid A: "The overarching idea of the mountains was that they were these landscapes of power, the idea of tower blocks and pyramids," says sleeve artist Stanley Donwood. He and Yorke – nether the Tchock allonym he uses when making art – were also inspired by a photo of the war in Kosovo, which ended in 1999.
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The Clash – London Calling
The Disharmonism – London Calling: Photographer Pennie Smith didn't desire this blurry alive shot to be used for the cover, just Joe Strummer and the band's graphic designer Ray Lowry overrode the decision, calculation in the distinctive pinkish and light-green lettering of Elvis Presley'due south debut album. The remains of the shattered bass are now on display at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Joy Partition – Unknown Pleasures: Renowned artist Peter Saville designed the sleeve, which is based on an image of radio waves taken from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy. The original prototype, created in 1970, was then reversed and so that blackness was the dominant colour, leading to an instantly recognisable impress that's been replicated on merchandise ever since.
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Haven – Definitely Mayhap
Oasis – Definitely Maybe: One of the most iconic sleeves of them all (an exact replica of the room was recently mocked up for a special exhibition), 'Definitely Peradventure's artwork was shot in Bonehead's living room with numerous prominent cultural reference points – a scene from The Good. The Bad And The Ugly, a poster of Burt Bacharach – on display.
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Led Zeppelin – Four
Led Zeppelin – IV: As a 'fuck you' to the critics who'd put the success of their first three albums downward to hype, Led Zeppelin decided to release their quaternary untitled. Instead of whatsoever words, the cover features a painting singer Robert Plant institute in an antiques ship in Reading. The tape itself displays four symbols, or runes: one for each band member.
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Blondie – Parallel Lines
Blondie – Parallel Lines: This classic sleeve got the band's director, Peter Leeds, fired. Without telling the band, he chose the image, which had been rejected past Debbie Harry – "I don't call up it's a great design, personally," she said – without informing the ring, who were hoping it would prove them fading in and out of the monochrome stripes. Leeds was replaced by Shep Gordon.
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Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Body of water
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea: Based on a vintage postcard, Mangum asked artist Chris Bilheimer to supersede the face of the woman with a potato. The resulting prototype tiptoes a thin line between cheery nostalgia and something much eerier.
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Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: Shot in 1963, this one has Dylan and his then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo strolling downward Jonas Street, NYC. Critic Janet Maslin once wrote that the comprehend "inspired countless young men to hunch their shoulders, look distant, and permit the girl exercise the clinging," but really Dylan was only chilly.
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The Velvet Secret – The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground: The front end and back cover photos were shot by creative person Billy Proper noun, who lived in Andy Warhol'south debauched NYC studio The Factory at the time of the anthology's release. He'south namechecked by Lou Reed in 'That's The Story Of My Life'.
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Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation: A department of the painting 'Kerze' by German creative person Gerhard Richter, who was known for his photorealistic works. The original was auctioned past Sotheby'due south in 2008 with a guide price of £ii.5m, but it sold for £7.1m.
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Jeff Buckley – Grace
Jeff Buckley – Grace: Designer duo Nicky Lindeman and Christopher Austopchuk came up with the cover concept, and much of the focus is on the vocalizer's adept looks. Speaking to 'Interview Mag' in 1994, Buckley rejected the poster-boy tag: "The manner y'all wait doesn't mean shit if you can't sing, or if you're mean to people".
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Interpol – Plough On The Bright Lights
Interpol – Turn On The Brilliant Lights: Inspired past minimal color palettes and the Bauhaus art movement, artist Sean McCabe somewhen ended up using a photograph taken within a London cinema every bit the bold image on the front of Interpol's debut. "They knew their audio and look had a presence to it, and they wanted [the artwork] to have a sense of awe and wonder," he says of the sleeve.
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The Killers – Hot Fuss
The Killers – Hot Fuss: Despite the band's well-documented Vegas roots, the buildings pictured on the front of their 2004 debut were really located at a construction factory in Shanghai, China. The Chinese characters on top of the buildings read 'construction material evolution'.
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Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters: The cover photograph of an antique Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol was taken by Grohl'due south then-wife Jennifer Youngblood. The paradigm caused controversy because of the way that Kurt Cobain had died, but was only intended to necktie in with the sci-fi theme of the band's name ('foo fighter' was a wwII term for a UFO).
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The Stones Roses – The Rock Roses
The Stones Roses – The Stone Roses: The cover art is a Jackson Pollock-influenced painting past Roses guitarist John Squire (also a noted artist), which is said to make reference to the May 1968 riots in Paris. The lemons that are featured on the sleeve refer to the fruit that was used as an antitoxin to tear gas.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell: Cody Critcheloe, frontman of electro-punks 'Ssion', created the illustrations of Karen, Nick and Brian. Karen later said she was taken by his "wacked-out artistic sensibility", saying of the artwork: "It is my belief that Cody is a cult legend in the making. I was helpless to its electric, raspberry charm".
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AC/DC – Dorsum In Blackness
Air-conditioning/DC – Back In Black: The cover of the archetype 1980 LP was a simple design of manifestly, stark black in honour of former Ac/DC vocalizer Bon Scott, who passed away the same year after drinking himself to death.
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Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
Kraftwerk – The Man Machine: A striking take on Lissitzky and Rodchenko, this Constructivist prototype feels oppressive, but not directly communist or fascist: as percussionist Karl Bartos has said, it had "a stiff paramilitary image, only it is a contradiction because we wore cherry shirts and not brown." To make the artwork even more perplexing, the title appears in four different languages.
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PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Honey
PJ Harvey – To Bring You lot My Dear: Her first two album covers had featured the wok of Polly'south friend and long-term visual collaborator Maria Mochnacz. The 'To Bring My Love' shot was taken by way photographer Valerie Phillips on the prepare of the 'Down Past The H2o' video, directed by Mochnacz.
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The Strokes – Is This Information technology
The Strokes – Is This It: The shot, taken by photographer Colin Lane, is of Lane's so-girlfriend and was taken spontaneously after she emerged naked from the shower. "We did near 10 shots. There was no real inspiration, I was simply trying to take a sexy picture," says Lane of the image.
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Portishead – Dummy
Portishead – Dummy: A all the same from the 10-minute short film 'To Kill A Dead Man', a spy movie homage starring Barrow every bit a rooftop assassin and Gibbons as the distraught wife of the human he'southward contracted to kill.
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Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: Surfacing so soon after 9/11, 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'southward' encompass image of two towers picked out against a bare groundwork had a item resonance. They're actually the twin Marina City towers, on the north bank of the Chicago river, and the cover was finalised earlier the catastrophic events.
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Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley: For 47 years it was believed that this photo – taken on July 31 1955 in Tampa, Florida – had been taken by Popsie Randolph. Information technology was August 2002 when Elvis expert Joseph A. Tunzi discovered the shot was actually taken by William V "Blood-red" Robertson. The cover manner has been echoed over the years by everyone from Tom Waits to Chumbawamba.
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Pixies – Doolittle
Pixies – Doolittle: 'Doolitle' was the offset anthology where 4AD's in business firm designer Vaughan Oliver had access to the lyrics beforehand. Thus the monkey references in the rails 'Monkey Gone To Sky', while the booklet also contains oblique references to the likes of 'I Bleed' and 'Gouge Away'. Oliver said in 2013 that it remains his favourite 4AD sleeve.
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Lou Reed – Rock N Roll Animal
Lou Reed – Rock N Whorl Creature: The cover shot is credited to little-known lensman DeWayne Dalrymple, who worked during the '60s and '70s with artists including Wilson Pickett and psych-folk band The Trout.
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Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand: In conversation for an exhibition of Domino Records' sleeve art in 2007, art manager Matt Cooper recalled: "For such a simple design, this went through a surprising number of permutations. At 1 stage the back cover was the front end. The angle of tilt on the logo – 13 degrees – will be forever ingrained upon my retentivity!"
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David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs: Bowie appears as half-human, one-half-dog character Halloween Jack, leader of the Diamond Dogs gang. Photographer Terry O'Neill took the pictures, which were then given to Belgian artist Guy Peellaert to return as a painting. RCA execs worried well-nigh the dog genitals on show, and censored the image. "I thought it was very sorry," Peellaert said afterward.
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Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland: The comprehend shot, which depicts the ring standing in an abandoned quarry, was taken by none other than Bonnie Prince Billy (aka Will Oldham). 'Spiderland', still, is the singer's only notable foray into sleeve blueprint.
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The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society: The cover shot for 'Hamlet Green…' took place at Kenwood Business firm on Hampstead Heath. Tune Maker photographer Barrie Wentzell took the pictures. 'Village Green…' would be the final album to feature the original Kinks line-up, with bassist Pete Quaife leaving in 1969.
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Morrissey – Your Arsenal
Morrissey – Your Arsenal: Both the front and back comprehend images are live shots taken at a 1991 gig at New York'due south Nassau coliseum. The photographer was visual creative person and punk singer Linder Sterling, whom the vocalizer has described as "steadfast and constant in [his] life" since they met in 1976.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Deja Vu: Civil war buff Stephen Stills wanted the cover to expect like a photo from that era (1860s). To achieve that, the band rented lookalike outfits from a costume shop and requested that lensman Tom O'Neal use an old-fashioned wooden box camera for the shoot, which took place in David Crosby'south rental house.
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The Cure – Disintegration
The Cure – Disintegration: Paul Thompson and Andy Vella had designed all of The Cure's artwork until this bespeak, but for 'Disintegration' Robert Smith was thinking of using someone new. In response, Thompson and Vella moved from their usual abstract designs into ane that focused on Smith'south face, which some saw every bit a conscious ploy to curry favour.
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The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation: There are two pieces of art on this anthology – the screaming cover, by Stuart Haygarth, and the gatefold, past horror illustrator Les Edwards. Liam Howlett found a plaster head at Camden Market and asked Haygarth to sculpt it as if information technology were breaking through peel. Many interpreted it to be a visual response to the criminalisation of raves in 1994.
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Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd – The Night Side Of The Moon: Floyd'south label weren't happy about the prism gatefold sleeve, insisting it was too minimalist. '…Night Side' concluded up existence their biggest-selling album yet. Art group Hipgnosis, the team behind the design, take said the prism is meant to celebrate the group's famous light show.
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Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Route
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Illustrator Ian Brook was chosen for the sleeve cheers to his work on singer-songwriter Jonathan Kelly's 'Wait Till They Modify The Backdrop'. Elton's Rocket Record Company were so smitten they originally wanted to use the same flick. Elton looks so long-legged because Beck asked his taller friend Leslie McKinley Howell to pose for framing shots.
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Belle And Sebastian – If Y'all're Feeling Sinister
Belle And Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister: Early in their career Belle And Sebastian would refuse to take their picture taken, so all their artwork was taken from annal photos and shots of friends, in homage to the classic Smiths sleeves.
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The Neat Pumpkins – Admire
The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore: Corgan's then girlfriend, Ukrainian-born Yelena Yemchuk, who had been involved with the videos for the singles from 'Mellon Collie…', is credited with the art direction of 'Admire'. Compared to the whimsy of 'Mellon Collie…', the gothic darkness of the principal image was a signpost to the bleakness within.
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The Ramones – Ramones
The Ramones – Ramones: The punk legends originally wanted a encompass similar to 'Meet the Beatles!' for this self-titled album, simply afterward a disastrous shoot which cartoonist John Holmstrom described as like "pulling teeth", opted for stark simplicity: the band lined upwards confronting a brick wall, expertly captured by lensman Roberta Bayley.
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Bloc Political party – Silent Alarm
Bloc Party – Silent Warning: The blank winter mural was photographed by freelance Ness Sherry and expresses a desolate theme of isolation, loneliness and depression. A negative version of the same photograph was used on the later release, 'Silent Alarm Remixed'.
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Kate Bush-league – Hounds of Dearest
Kate Bush – Hounds of Dear: The shot of Kate reclining seductively on the comprehend takes on a rather creepier tone when you discover information technology was taken by her ain blood brother, John Carder Bush.
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The Kinks – Kinks
The Kinks – Kinks: The comprehend shot was taken by Klaus Schmalenbach, who went on to piece of work with the band on several of their subsequent releases. He afterwards became a record executive at BMG.
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Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment: Designed by veteran art managing director Cally – whose credits include records by Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Catchy and more – the sleeve was designed to resemble the battered box of a 1940'south board game. A deluxe edition fifty-fifty came with a wad of Monopoly-style money
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The Replacements – Allow Information technology Exist
The Replacements – Let It Be: The forepart-cover photograph was taken past Dan Corrigan and features The Replacements sitting on the roof of the Stintsons' family home. Left to right, information technology's Paul Westerberh, Bob Stintson, Chris Mars, Tommy Stintson. The moving-picture show is said to exist a homage to the Beatles' final rooftop concert during the 1969 'Permit It Be' sessions.
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Elastica – Elastica
Elastica – Elastica: Renowned German fashion photographer Juergen Teller who was worked with artists including Sinead O'Connor, Bjork, Elton John, took the black-and-white snap for Elastica'southward debut – a cover that, with its thin, sparing fashion, stood autonomously from the elaborate and conceptual sleeves favoured by Blur and Suede.
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The Cure – Boys Don't Cry
The Cure – Boys Don't Cry: The sleeve for 'Three Imaginary Boys' featured a fridge, a vacuum cleaner and a lamp – the latter apparently representing Smith. The same designer, Polydor art director Bill Smith, produced a similarly artful sleeve for 'Boys Don't Cry', admitting one that seems to translate the track 'Burn in Cairo' quite literally.
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LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem: Afterwards years spent performing in punk bands, James White potato'south transition into an unlikely 35-year-old dancefloor king was cemented with LCD Soundsystem'due south 2005 debut. What better image to show this than a disco ball? Effortless, precise and perfectly executed, it was typical Murphy.
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Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen
Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen: "Music is medicine for the soul," said Jason Pierce, deciding on minimalist pill-themed artwork for his third anthology sleeve: "1 tablet lxx min" it reads. Pierce actually cut several minutes from the album in order to round off the figure and brand the typography look neat. Designer Mark Farrow has since said he regrets the gimmicky packaging.
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