A Bag Of Golf Balls
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo - Everyone assumes that face was designed from scratch. It wasn't. It came from a bundle of golf balls.
Category
Rock
Album art from decades of guitars, drums and reinvention. The genre that refuses to sit still or grow old gracefully.
Stories
A Poem On A Napkin
Wheels of Fire by Cream - My parents had this album. It sat in the collection looking too strange to touch. I left it alone for years. Here's what I found when I finally looked properly.
The Cover Nobody Saw
Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses - The cross and skulls design is the cover everyone knows. But there was another one. Most of the world never saw it.
Absence
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd - Two businessmen. One of them is on fire. And, did you know about the invisible man?
It Came From A Rice Cooker
Aladdin Sane by David Bowie - The lightning bolt that appeared on millions of faces the night he died. It came from a rice cooker.
Fifty Pounds
Klaus Voormann spent three weeks creating one of the most celebrated album covers in history. He was paid fifty pounds.
Unzip This
A Controversial look at the cover of Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
The Night Ziggy Landed
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie - He doesn't fill the frame. He's small, almost lost in the street.
Stolen From A Pub Toilet
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac - The cover is boring. Two people, a light background, and a pair of wooden balls hanging like testicles.
Raw Deal
The cover that shocked America, got recalled within days, and became the most valuable Beatles collectible in existence.
Cool. Suave. And, Whose Feet Are Those?
Kick by INXS - Michael Hutchence owned that cover. But whose feet are on the skateboard at the top?