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Album cover for the North American release of Are You Experienced (1967) by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to: the printed paperboard covers typically used to package:
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.
This is a list of record-breaking historical expensive album covers or CD packaging. Elvis Presley (1956) – reportedly was the most expensive album cover ever up to that point. [74] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) – The cover, costing £25,000, was reportedly the most expensive cover design up to this time.
In the history of album cover art, only two parties have become arguably almost as famous as some of the bands they shot or designed for: Hipgnosis, in the 1970s, and Anton Corbijn, from the mid ...
The album cover shows a group of middle-aged nudists posing in the middle of a forest. The group consists of five women and three men. The album cover was completely pixelated for its iTunes release, [21] and many online news outlets overlaid a black box over the explicit areas. [22] The replacement cover for Ritual de lo Habitual.
The album art of other musicians has been influenced by Blue Note's covers, including Elvis Costello's Almost Blue (1981), whose cover is an homage to Burrell's Midnight Blue (1963), Van Morrison's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast (1998), which has a cover inspired by Blakey's Free for All (1965), and Aesop Rock's Float (2000), whose ...
Album cover art is artwork created for a music album and began in 1938 when Columbia Records hired Alex Steinweiss as its first art director. [4] Notable album cover art includes Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, [5] [6] the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road and their ...
The Very Best of Aretha Franklin, Vol. 1 is a compilation album by singer Aretha Franklin, released by Rhino Records in March 1994. The album compiles 13 of her first 14 singles for Atlantic Records all of which were recorded during the 1960s.