Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd - Two businessmen. One of them is on fire. And, did you know about the invisible man?
Yeezus by Kanye West - A clear plastic case. A piece of red tape. Nothing else. I looked at it and moved on. I was wrong.
Eight album covers in conversation with another album cover. Some are deliberate tributes. Some are knowing winks. Some are coincidences so perfect they feel impossible.
Eight studio albums. Eight covers. And hiding across most of them, a secret that nobody noticed for years.
To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar - I heard King Kunta on Triple J and bought the album for the music. I never really looked at the cover. I should have.
Horses by Patti Smith - A Salvation Army shirt. A Frank Sinatra gesture. Twelve photographs. One afternoon in a New York apartment. And one important album cover.
A woman on a horse. A silver bodysuit. The whole thing glowing and otherworldly.
Five album covers that got it wrong. A missing letter. A wrong title. A bridge nobody bothered to fact check. The mistakes that made it to print.
Lovesexy by Prince - Most call it audacious. I call it confidence. There's a difference.
Five albums. Five covers. One unmistakable visual vision. Here's the full story of Massive Attack's extraordinary album cover art from Blue Lines to Heligoland.
Aladdin Sane by David Bowie - The lightning bolt that appeared on millions of faces the night he died. It came from a rice cooker.
Nevermind by Nirvana - The shoot lasted fifteen seconds. The baby was four months old. Thirty years later he sued the band that made him famous.
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