Pink Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson came up with a striking look for the former Genesis singer's third solo album. Jeremy Shatan took a panoramic photo of Ludlow Street in New York and while the real store was called Lee's Sportswear, the hip hop trio had made their own fictional "Paul's Boutique" sign. Licensed To Ill's crushed airplane is pretty funny, but we like the understated imagery on the 1989 follow-up. Some though that Bruce was weeing against the flag, but he insisted there was no hidden message in the image.īeastie Boys - Paul's Boutique album cover. The Boss's song Born In The USA inspired photographer Annie Liebowitz to shoot a photo of Springsteen in front of the American flag the track was a powerful lyric about soldiers returning from Vietnam. Hugo McGuinness paid Rowen in Mars bars, but the innocence of the image was lost on the US arm of Island Records, who thought the picture might appeal to paedophiles they changed it to a generic photo of the band members.īruce Springsteen - Born In The USA album cover. The Irish band's debut album features a stark black and white photo of Peter Rowen, the younger brother of Derek Rowen aka Guggi, a Dublin artist and member of The Virgin Prunes. Designer Laura LiPuma Nash later revealed the backdrop was borrowed from a production of the musical Guys & Dolls. You can only see half of his face in the bottom right hand corner the camera focuses on the elaborate stage set up behind him. The cover depicts the poor old Monkey Gone To Heaven, doomed to die through the global climate emergency.įor his ninth album, Minneapolis superstar Prince got deliberately obscure. This means that the sleeve - and the images in the inner booklet - perfectly sum up the grimy, quirky and strange world of the singer. The slices of lemon - along with the title - are a reference to the student riots in Paris in 1968.ĤAD label designer Vaughan Oliver had established a special working relationship with photographer Simon Larbalestier over the course of the Boston band's previous released, but for the band's second full-length album, they had an advance look at Black Francis's lyrics for the first time.
For their debut album, a piece of art called Bye Bye Badman was pressed into service, with its Jackson Pollock-esque paint splatters forming a backdrop to the album's title. Roses guitarist John Squire was a talented artist and his paintings adorned the band's singles. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses album cover. Each letter then linked to a letter or a number, allowing the buyer to decipher the title and the band name - the cover blocks say "FACT 75", for example. To this end, he took the 1890 painting A Basket Of Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour and created a colour wheel that featured every tone in the artwork. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies album cover.įactory Records' in-house designer Peter Saville had gone for a Futurist look for the Manchester band's debut album Movement, but for the follow-up, he wanted to combine the classical beauty of the music with the up to the date technology used to create it. It was the decade when CD-sized covers began to take over, but the 80s still had some amazing sleeves.
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