Freaky Album Cover Art
Browse to your heart’s content the history of great album covers at LP Cover Lover. It would be hard to pick the best - genres span Opera to Calypso to Psychedelia - but these ones raised a grin
The stories behind some of the most iconic album covers’ creation are often interesting - often because of the unexpectedly prosaic reasons for these resulting iconic images. Such as this following account for the famous red and blue lightning bolt on David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album:
‘Bowie was interested in the Elvis ring which had the letters TCB [taking care of business] as well as a lightning flash. It was decided that Bowie would have a flash on his face. Duffy drew inspiration from the mundane objects in his studio and, along with make-up artist Pierre La Roche, copied the red and blue flash off a National Panasonic rice cooker lying nearby.
“I drew on his face the design… [we] used lipstick to fill in the red,” he says.’
Source: BBC
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