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The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely recognized album cover that depicts several dozen celebrities and other images. The image was made by posing the Beatles in front of life-sized, black-and-white photographs pasted onto hardboard and hand-tinted. [1]
The album's original artwork depicted an image of a man's body exploding as the xenomorph from the Alien franchise holding a Stratocaster guitar emerges from his chest. The album was reportedly banned for being "too grotesque", [32] and on the 1995 reissue, the artwork was replaced by a blurry black-and-white picture of a man. It was later ...
In August 2008, album cover designer Peter Saville suggested that the album cover was dead. [13] Album art is still considered a vital part of the listening experience to many. [14] MP3, WMA, and M4A (Apple format) music files can contain embedded digital album artworks (called cover images or simply covers) in jpeg format. [15]
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album cover was one of the most iconic and recognizable of all time. It helped catapult the then unknown band to worldwide fame in 1991, and the album went on to sell a ...
The cover image of the 30th-anniversary edition was created by a team of designers including Thorgerson. [120] The image is a photograph of a custom-made stained glass window, built to match the dimensions and proportions of the original prism design. Transparent glass, held in place by strips of lead, was used in place of the opaque colours of ...
Yet the label hired the esteemed pin-up photographer Peter Gowland, who died in 2010, to shoot the Blue Album’s cover: Cuomo, Sharp, Bell and Wilson standing against a blue background. Bell: We ...
The soundtrack was released on April 14, 1978, two months ahead of the film's release. [1] As with most musicals of the period, the vocal takes recorded for the album release–and in some cases the instrumental background as well–do not lock to picture but were recorded during entirely different soundtrack sessions often months prior or subsequent to the performances used for lip sync in ...
Background extinction rate; Background independence, a condition in theoretical physics; Background noise; Background radiation, the natural radiation that is always present in a location Background (astronomy), small amounts of light coming from otherwise dark parts of the sky; Cosmic background (disambiguation) Gravitational wave background