Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers-takes a deep dive into the history of iconic album cover art. Images and additional information on Rolling Stones albums may be found at https://iorr.org/albums/. Look for a new episode each Friday.
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Record covers seem to have punctuated our lives in so many ways. They remind us of where we were, what we were doing, who we were with. They mark our student days, our holidays, our growing up and our coming of age.Welcome to the art of the album podcast, brought to you by Hypergallery. In each episode we will be interviewing an artist, photographer or designer responsible for some of the most memorable cover images, and some of the most unusual treasures to have graced record releases in th ...
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Radiohead created the first album cover suitable for an AI artist but they did that 25 years before AI could do that. Dunwood and Dr. Tchock created a chaotic masterpiece in OK Computer. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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This week we cover Jackson Browne, the male Carole King, and one of an endlessly talented stable of Laurel Canyon musicians. If you were a hippie you had a water bag and if by chance you didn't you had this water bag album. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Do you hyphenate After-Math or not? Go ahead and while you're at it put a comma in Paint It, Black. The US cover was the first that was not a traditional studio shot and it launched the Stones into the world of album cover art. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/black-a…
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If you missed San Francisco during the hippie era the next best thing may have been Telegraph Avenue on a green day. All of that is captured on this album cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Here it is, the pillar of punk rock music and the punk rock movement. The Ramones is that band you see on this cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Ghosts of West Virginia-Steve Earle and the Dukes
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Almost heaven, West Virginia, and it truly is. This is the story about the cover of Ghosts of West Virginia a quilt that tells the story of a hardworking underpaid tribe of people who powered much of our country's last century and a half--coal miners. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from…
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Surrealistic Pillow-Jefferson Airplane
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This cover features the most iconic wall in the history of rock music photography, Herb Green's hieroglyphic wall. It also includes the first mention of Jerry Garcia on an album cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Smells Like Teen Spirit is a song that launched several generations of lifelong fans of a band too shortlived. But the cover launched Nirvana into and then out of orbit. It is one of the best known covers of all time. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gm…
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Nevermind this album spawned some nice Supertramp tunes, the real news is the cover predicted 911 21 years before it happened. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Joy Division's debut album used radio signals that could have been from little green men in a galaxy far far away for the cover art. Instead the image got a female physics student and a new PhD screwed and not in a good way. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoversto…
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Through the Past Darkly-The Rolling Stones
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The Stones second greatest hits compilation includes the final shots of the five original Stones together for the last time. It was dedicated to Brian Jones who died soon after the cover shoot. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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School's out for summer, school's out forever, school's been blown to pieces. No one taps, touches and teases teen angst like Alice Cooper. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Once again we bleed on the cutting edge of album art relevance, this time with Queen B and her fabulously successful reclamation project that begins right here on the cover. By the way, Blair Caldwell took the photo. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gma…
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Looking back, Smith said she had not intended making a big statement with the cover. Her fusion of poetry and rock and roll, along with this iconic photograph has frozen her in the minds of millions. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Never Mind The Bollocks-The Sex Pistols
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This is a punk classic cover for the one record band that spawned the careers of Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious among others. It is the ransom note cover, colored one way for the UK and another for the US. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Nica was Monk's patron. She sacrificed her life for him. This, we believe, is his tribute cover to this French Resistance Freedom Fighter millionairess. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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The Beatles (The White Album)-The Beatles
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What do you do to follow Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's album cover? The opposite. This is the story of the Beatles eponymous white cover album. Grab a copy and listen along with us to a special guest, Beatles expert, Ken Orth. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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The Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
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This album spent 741 consecutive weeks on the Charts and its Hipgnosis designed cover, with an assist from writer/bassist Roger Waters had a significant influence on that run. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
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How many know the story behind the photo on the cover of Rage's eponymous debut album? That a photo taken one day in 1963 became the cover of an album almost 30 years later is a story you'll want to hear. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Paul Simonon made rock and roll history at the New York Palladium in September 1979 when he expressed his rage by smashing his London Calling Precision Fender at precisely 9:50 PM. This is the story of one of rock's most famous album covers. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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blink 182 is the only band to ever violate the Geneva Convention and they did it with this album cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Is this a resurrection, an escape or an execution? Whatever your answer, it is undeniably one of the more striking album covers of this still young century. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Likely the best artist to ever do a Stones album cover got panned by the fans and loved pissing them off. Learn the story of the Kong-like ape on the cover of a greatest hits album by the silverbacks of rock and roll. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/grrr-2.pdf We'd l…
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This is the story of the most famous vagrant in rock and roll. Is it really Ian Anderson? Did the artist get a fair shake? Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Prince grabbed an available piece of paper and made a list of the things he wanted to see on the cover of this album. A Purple Rain Tour carpenter who also video taped the shows brought his list to life on this alnum. Grab a copy and listen along with us.We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com…
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Deja Vu-Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
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The first album was a joy, the second was painful, said Crosby, who also kinda sorta named this album. You'll want to hear about the dog. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Smash Hits-Rodgers and Hart, The First Album Cover Ever
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Ever wonder who did the firsst album cover art? we did. Here's the story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Black and Blue created one of the Stones best controversies, this time it was the title and the way it was marketed. The cover, is in the opinions of many, one of the Stones' best. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/black-and-blue.pdff We'd love to hear from you at Albu…
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The Covies-First Annual Self Serving Awards Show Where We Choose Our Favorites From 2023
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We'd love to know your favorites-your favorite cover, favorite back story, and favorite all round package, but we have no idea how to hear from you. So, instead we tell you ours. Let us know what album covers you'd like us to cover at albumartthe coverstories@gmail.com.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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This is one of the most unique covers we have encountered on one of the most forgettable albums by a super group. Find out why it often lands on worst covers of all times lists. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.comOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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What a difference an apostrophe makes. Miles Davis and artist Mati Klarwein manage to produce music and cover art that are perfectly in sync with each other and the possibilites that surround us. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Mystery solved, the man on the cover is now known and the Balck Dog is real, even if it creator is not. This is the story of Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth studio album. Grab a copy and listen along with us. To see the black dog go to our Instagram site https://www.instagram.com/coverstories_charlie_and_adam/ We'd love to hear from you at Albumartt…
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Suggestions for Getting Album Cover Images-Not an Album Cover Story
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If you'd like to be able to see images of the covers we cover here are a couple of suggestions.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Who would be arrested first for a cover like this today? The record company? The band? The parents? The buyers? Ah, but this was the good old days of the extended Sixties and all those groups did quite well by this cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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They're back, our favorite Stones album cover duo Peter Corriston and Hubert Kretzschmar team up yet again to create a sticker porn album cover while Bill Smith gets done out of a cover by the ongoing Jagger-Richards feud. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/undercover-2…
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The Holy Bible-Manic Street Preachers
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Pain, suffering, vulnerability? The Holy Bible and the story behind this cover and it making has all of that and courage too. This is the story of the cover for The Holy Bible. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Born during the globally televised Live Aid concert, this album may reveal more about James Hetfield than he ever intended. This is the story of the cover for Metallica's Master of Puppets. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Building on a visual brand introduced with Fleetwood Mac, Rumours is the Renaissance Fair cover that helped convince 10 million people to buy this album in its first month. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Far out! Psychedelic! Outta sight, man! Looks great under a blacklight. This is the story of the cover for Disraeli Gears. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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In this episode of the art of the album podcast Emily talks to Aubrey Powell from Hipgnosis about the cover artwork for the Pink Floyd 2019 release, 'The Later Years'. Episode recorded via video call in 2022, and you can see the full conversation at youtube.com/c/hypergallery. See the limited edition 'The Later Years' art prints at hypergallery.com…
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No one on the planet outside of the Stones inner circle has held this album in their hands as this hot take on the album art drops. Grab a digital copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images keep an eye on iorr.org Album Art where we'll post after we have actually held and examined the album!…
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Our friend Ken Orth is back to tell us about his band's album cover for NUJV or whatever the Beatles are spelling. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Learn more about Beatles covers from Ken's work in the archives of https://beatlefan.com/Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!-The Rolling Stones
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If there is a heaven then Charlie Watts on the cover of this album shows us what it is like. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/get-yer-ya-yas-out.pdfOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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In this episode of the Art of the Album podcast music journalist Teri Saccone talks to artist Terry Pastor about his cover artwork for the David Bowie album 'Hunky Dory', released in 1971. You can read our Q&A with Terry on the Hypergallery blog here: hypergallery.com/q&a/TerryPastor See limited edition prints by Terry Pastor featuring this artwork…
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Carlos Santana saw it in a magazine and knew it had to be the cover of his next album. The Annunciation, better known to us as Anraxas, is one of the most enigmatic album covers of all time. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Appetite For Destruction-Guns N' Roses
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The first 30000 covers sneaked thru then the cover changed to this iconic GNR logo. This is the story of the cover for Appetite For Destruction. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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The Doors stole a photo and named an upscale burger chain with this album. This is the story of the Morrison Hotel Cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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Hey, Michael, where'd you get that suit? It was the biggest selling album ever according to some websites. This is the story of the Thriller cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us.Oleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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In this episode of the Art of the Album podcast, Emily talks to David Goldman about his cover artwork for the Blink-182 album 'Enema of the State' released in 1999. Episode recorded when David stopped by the Hypergallery print room during the European leg of his Motorcycle Portraits tour. You can read more about this and see the images David has ta…
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Album art spreads to the stage to the merch to the adverts in the dawning digital age of Steel Wheels. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/steel-wheels.pdfOleh Charlie and Adam Yoe
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