Classic Album covers
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Classic album covers: Cheap Thrills – Big Brother and the Holding Company
A cultural touchstone, symbolic of the 1960s psychedelic movement -
Classic Album Covers : Breakfast in America – Supertramp
Great concept, design and execution, but really it's Kate Murtagh’s advancing years that are key to the cover’s success -
Classic album covers: The Velvet Underground & Nico
The story behind the most famous banana in the world -
Classic album covers: Parallel Lines – Blondie
The iconic cover actually led to the sacking of Blondie's manager because they really didn't like it -
Classic Album covers : The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
An album cover that perfectly encapsulates a remarkable time, place and couple - Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo -
Classic album covers: Candy-O – The Cars
Occasionally an album will be remembered far more for its cover than for its music. Take a bow, Candy-O -
Classic album covers : Smash Song Hits – Rodgers and Hart
Not so much a Classic Album cover, more the story of the invention of a whole new genre -
Classic album covers: Purple Rain – Prince
Sound and vision: Prince and The Revolution's Purple Rain -
Classic Album covers : The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys – Traffic
A puzzling title, made not a jot clearer by Jim Capaldi's rambling explanation -
Classic Album covers : Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth – Rainbow Ffolly
The first band to release an album before releasing a single - Bucks boys Rainbow Ffolly. A lost masterpiece -
Classic Album covers : After The Gold Rush – Neil Young
One of the best album covers of all time - and it was a mistake by photographer Joel Bernstein that led to it -
Classic Album covers : She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
The primary-colour rich cover of Lauper's debut, shot at Coney Island, perfectly catches her bubbly persona -
Classic Album covers : Crush – OMD
Done in the style of Edward Hopper, Crush captures memories of love's first encounter perfectly
