The famed folk singer looks surprisingly calm and collected considering she has a highway shooting through her midriff. With few personnel available, however, he ended up using his assistant as a juggler and paying a cabdriver five bucks to pretend to play the trumpet. And, like ‘Thinking Out Loud’’s cover of a drifting guitar, Magritte the artist also liked to have all varieties of paraphernalia floating around in powder-blue skies.Įver the difficult rock star, Jim Morrison refused to appear on the cover, leaving photographer Joel Brodsky to photograph some NYC street performers instead.
This jazz-fusion record opens with a song entitled ‘Magritte’, probably in homage to the surrealist painter. A fitting album cover for the title of Bilal’s third studio album, ‘A Love Surreal’ features the neo-soul singer looking suave next to a woman who’s seemingly half-female/half-flower. Design legend Storm Thorgerson, who worked on ‘Absolution’, also conceptualized the artwork for 2006’s ‘ Black Holes and Revelations’.Īpparently, the solo artist took inspiration from surrealist darling Salvador Dali for this album, both musically and visually. We’re not sure if the figures are ascending, descending or simply floating on Muse’s third album, but whatever they’re doing, they’re doing it pretty strikingly. The distorted face and gaping mouth of Jones is the result of using a montage technique on a single photograph. Jean-Paul Goude, who views Jones as his muse, designed the album cover – an iconic sleeve that’s equal parts scary and surreal.
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The cover is thought to be a visual translation of lyrics from the track ‘Glitter and Trauma’: “Your skin will break into jigsaw shaped pieces of meat”. The Scottish rockers’ fourth album features a pretty glum looking man – although you’d hardly be jumping for joy if your skin were falling out by the chunk-load. Storm Thorgenson was the man in charge again here, and has also worked with legends including Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin and The Mars Volta. It was hard to pick one of Pink Floyd’s captivatingly bizarre album covers, but ‘Wish You Were Here’ features a flaming guy in a suit, which is always a winner. RCA records withdrew the record, however, and demanded that the controversial ‘addition’ be airbrushed out. The 1974 concept album from the controversial pop chameleon David Bowie initially featured a bow-wow-Bowie hybrid on the cover, complete with canine genitalia.
The sleeve features a floating teacup, a rocket hitting a cheese moon and what something that looks like an abstract drawing of a uterus with the face of a sad clown.
Island records picked the artwork for Nick Drake’s third and final album, which was actually completed by his sister’s friend Michael Trevithick. The artist is renown for capturing power and movement and wrestling them into 2D formats. The 2013 album cover – which features two human/tiger hybrid people passionately kissing – is a copy of artist Robert Longo’s piece ‘Strong in Love’. You’ll find some of his other mystical landscapes on album-covers from Gentle Giant and Ramases. This icy, reptilian landscape was the work of Roger Dean, who was in high demand as a sleeve artist during the progressive rock era. We’ll just stick to a bacon sarnie, if that’s alright with you Mike. Behind her lays a white cityscape made up of egg cartons, an ashtray and various pieces of crockery. Designed by Mike Doud, the through-the-window style cover depicts actress Kate Murtagh enthusiastically carrying a glass of orange juice.
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