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The gigantic metal heads depicted on Storm Thorgerson's artwork were drawn by Keith Breeden and sculpted by John Robertson. Standing over nine feet tall and weighing more than a family car, the gargantuan objects were lifted to a Cambridgeshire field and photographed over a two-week period. The dramatic outcome proved fitting for what would ultimately turn out to be Pink Floyd's last studio outing.
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Captured by Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø using a 3D scanning machine, the iconic shot on the cover of Coldplay's second album was originally commissioned by Dazed and Confused magazine in the late 1990s before it was appropriated by the British band. "Chris Martin saw the image and said, 'I want that on my album cover.' So they called me up and told me," explains Sundsbø.
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The geezerish charm of Parklife was accentuated by its laddish sleeve, which depicted a pair of greyhounds captured in mid-race by photographer Bob Thomas. Designed by Chris Thomson, the cover is now regarded with mixed feelings by the band, with guitarist Graham Coxon exemplifying their ambivalence by stating, "it's all intellect and no soul, but it's also sensational, graphic and perfect."
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Peter Saville's love of modernism and classicism was immediately evident on his seminal work, which adored Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and Closer. As Factory Records' art director he drew on minimalism and romance in equal measure, a point borne out on Power, Corruption and Lies via his juxtaposition of Henri Fantin-Latour's A Basket of Roses and a colour-coded alphabet strip denoting the album as product.
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By the time Robert Brownjohn came to design the anarchic sleeve for Let It Bleed, the American graphic designer had already created the title sequences for Bond movies From Russia With Love and Goldfinger. His sleeve sculpture was based on the original title, 'Automatic Charger', the cover shot suggesting a fully stacked record player, augmented by the cake imagery of the then-unknown cook, Delia Smith.
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Serving up a heady brew of soul, funk, reggae and rock 'n' roll swagger, The Clash's third album was designed by maverick cartoonist Ray Lowry. Pennie Smith's shot of bassist Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision on stage at the New York City Palladium remains one of rock's defining images. "I just didn't think it was right for a sleeve at the time," she says. "Now, after all this time, it's OK."
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Taken from the spoken-word intro by Vivian Stanshall, the words "Tubular bells" gave the album its title and Mike Oldfield the idea for the cover artwork. Designer and photographer Trevor Key created a Magritte-inspired image from bent chromed-metal piping, which he photographed and then cut out over a melodramatic shot taken on the south coast. The effect, visually and musically, proved to be monolithic.
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Jimmy Page's quest for 'total anonymity' meant that the world's biggest rock band released their fourth album without the merest mention of their name on the cover. The focal point of the gatefold sleeve was a painting of a faggot-bearing old man, which was nailed to a wall of a derelict house overlooking a bleak Dudley landscape dominated by a high-rise. For all its alleged mystique, the sleeve was Zeppelin's own ecological statement.
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Though never formally schooled in graphic design, by his mid 20s Paul Cannell was in-house artist for both the Heavenly and Creation labels, setting up a studio in the latter's Hackney offices. There, fuelled by the pre-Britpop bohemia that surrounded him, he created Primal Scream's most iconic sleeve — the child-like, primary colours of his misshaped sun matching the impressionistic, post-rave psychedelic sensibilities of the music it housed.
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On a miserable February evening on London's Heddon Street, photographer Brian Ward helped to conceptualise David Bowie's notion of an alien visitor seduced by the trappings of excess, fame and flamboyant ambiguity. Designed by Bowie's ex-King Bee bandmate and friend George Underwood, with artwork by Terry Pastor, the sleeve juxtaposes glam hedonism with backstreet grime.
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Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Abbey Road
The Beatles
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Oasis
Revolver
The Beatles
London Calling
The Clash
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The Beatles
OK Computer
Radiohead
Nevermind
Nirvana
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