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Craig

Craig is the founder of Art Before Noise, exploring the stories behind iconic album covers. From Bowie’s rice cooker to Kendrick’s lawn, his deep dives reveal the hidden secrets and visual visions that define the music we love.

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  • Cover To Cover 5 min read

    Cover To Cover

    Craig
    • • The Clash • The Beatles • Gorillaz

    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 Covers. One Secret Pattern 6 min read

    Eight Covers. One Secret Pattern

    Craig
    • • Mark Hoppus • Tom DeLonge • Travis Barker

    Eight studio albums. Eight covers. And hiding across most of them, a secret that nobody noticed for years.

  • The Lawn They Built 5 min read

    The Lawn They Built

    Craig
    • • Kendrick Lamar • Denis Rouvre • Top Dawg Entertainment

    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.

  • I See Us 4 min read

    I See Us

    Craig
    • • Patti Smith • Robert Mapplethorpe • Arista Records

    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.

  • The Disco Ball Horse 5 min read

    The Disco Ball Horse

    Craig
    • • Beyoncé • Carlijn Jacobs • Nusi Quero

    A woman on a horse. A silver bodysuit. The whole thing glowing and otherworldly.

  • Press. Ship. Regret. 4 min read

    Press. Ship. Regret.

    Craig
    • • Electric Light Orchestra • The Byrds • The Zombies

    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.

  • The Birth of Prince 5 min read

    The Birth of Prince

    Craig
    • • Prince • Jean-Baptiste Mondino • Paisley Park Records

    Lovesexy by Prince - Most call it audacious. I call it confidence. There's a difference.

  • The Flame, The Beetle, The Bullet 6 min read

    The Flame, The Beetle, The Bullet

    Craig
    • • Massive Attack • Robert Del Naja • Tom Hingston

    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.

  • It Came From A Rice Cooker 4 min read

    It Came From A Rice Cooker

    Craig
    • • David Bowie • Pierre La Roche • Philip Castle

    Aladdin Sane by David Bowie - The lightning bolt that appeared on millions of faces the night he died. It came from a rice cooker.

  • Fifteen Seconds 5 min read

    Fifteen Seconds

    Craig
    • • Geffen Records • Kurt Cobain • Nirvana

    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.

  • That's Not His Suit 4 min read

    That's Not His Suit

    Craig
    • • CBS Records • Dick Zimmerman • Epic Records

    The white suit on the cover of the best selling album in history wasn't Michael's. It belonged to the photographer. And the tiger kept wandering off.

  • Fifty Pounds 6 min read

    Fifty Pounds

    Craig
    • • Klaus Voormann • The Beatles • Parlophone Records

    Klaus Voormann spent three weeks creating one of the most celebrated album covers in history. He was paid fifty pounds.

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