With a teardrop later airbrushed on by designer Philip Castle, who also added the silvery effect given to Bowie’s skin, the album cover became the most expensive ever made at that point, thanks to the use of a seven-colour printing technique which gave the image extra depth. Inspired by Bowie’s interest in Elvis Presley’s “TCB” ring – a gold ring which featured diamond-encrusted lightning bolts, and whose initialism stood for “taking care of business” – Duffy came up with the idea of placing a lightning-bolt flash down the centre of the singer’s face, hitting upon the perfect visual representation of Bowie’s increasingly fractured sense of self as he became lost in his own Ziggy Stardust creation. Selected from a number of portraits that photographer Brian Duffy took of David Bowie in his studio in London’s Primrose Hill area, the Aladdin Sane portrait has gone on to define what’s arguably Bowie’s most unforgettable look. Photographer: Jeff Katz | Art director: Laura LiPumaĪn hour of make-up, one simple pose, and one of the best album covers of all time was complete. “He was so careful in his thought process, music and visuals,” Katz later recalled, “but he was also willing to go to this very loose, surreal, conceptual place.” The plasma ball made for a deliberately pointed reference to the record Prince had initially intended to release – a triple-disc album called Crystal Ball – but the blurry portrait was a result of serendipity, after Prince asked photographer Jeff Katz to take an off-the cuff shot without lighting or proper focus. Created for Prince’s high-water mark 1987 double album, it reflected the peach-and-black colour scheme that he had adopted following the black-and-white glamour of the Parade era, and its stage-set look – with a backdrop on loan from a local Minneapolis production of Guys And Dolls – inspired the set design for what would be Prince’s most theatrical tour to date, in support of the Sign O’ The Times album. Transform Vinyl Records into Captivating Art Galleries with Twelve Inch Display your vinyl records with The Adapter. And none were more effective in doing so than the Sign O’ The Times sleeve. With their distinct colour palettes and Prince’s own changing fashions, the best Prince album covers did as much as the music within to define their respective eras. AC/DC guitarist Angus Young is in there somewhere, too.” One of the best album covers of its era, Dookie’s artwork was drawn by Bay Area artist Richie Bucher, whose fantasy destruction of Telegraph Avenue, in Berkeley, California, paid homage to the local scene Green Day came up in. The shit-flinging animals are likely a reference to the album title (it was named after the phrase “liquid dookie” – the group’s own slang for diarrhoea), while Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong once explained that the artwork was like a pop-punk take on Where’s Wally: “There’s pieces of us buried on the album cover,” he told VH1’s Ultimate Albums, adding, “The robed character that looks like the Mona Lisa is the woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath album. Think we've missed out a stone cold classic? Let us know at the bottom of this epic album cover round-up.A humorous representation of the kind of explosive impact Green Day’s third album had when it was released in February 1994, Dookie’s album cover was packed with the kind of anarchic humour that characterised many of the best Green Day songs. We want to know which you think is the ultimate album cover, so upvote your favourite designs. Get these up on your wall as well as on your turntable. We've picked 50 of the coolest album designs ever created. Kendrick Limited Poster Music Album Cover Posters Print Room Aesthetic Canvas Wall Art for Girl and Boy Teens Dorm Decor Set of 6 (Unframe 8x10 inch) 1299. Even the best album covers of all time, then, come at a price. Roger Waters, Pink Floyds bassist and singer suggested to designer Storm that perhaps for the cover of Dark Side of the Moon, he might not use a photograph. Sometimes, even more so: legend has it that the cover of New Order's Blue Monday was so expensive to make that their label lost money on every copy sold. Originally just a protective cover for the fragile crackly goods beneath, it soon evolved into a space for artistic expression in its own right, very often becoming as important as the music itself. The rise of digital music, unfortunately though, threatens one of the greatest canvasses of art seen in the 20th Century - the record sleeve. With the rise of streaming the humble album cover is becoming something of a lost art, which is a crying shame as this list of the best album covers of all time proves that there is some amazing art for the long player.
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