Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers

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Okay, Swifties, it is your turn. This is the story of the cover where Taylor risked her country career and was born again as a popstar in this tribute to the 1980s. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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Surprise, surprise, there is a big yellow tombstone where a seascape was supposed to be. We'd fix it but we're out of time. This is the cover story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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They're getting the band back together, suspiciously timed to coincide with this podcast. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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This cover was a darling of the Parents Music Resource Center and the parents advisory was the best advertising that could have ever been invented for teens. Many suggest the cover predicted an event that occurred 6,809 days later. This is the cover story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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American Idiot re-invented Green Day as one of the most important bands in the country and the cover was no small part in that do-over. It took 30 minutes to create, showing the world how punks do it and they owe it all to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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"Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head."This equipment identifier became a Mt Rushmore band logo long before it was an album cover.  Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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The Stones were never blacker or bluesier than they were on this album with photo art by David Bailey and liner note screed and controversy complements of Andrew Loog Oldham. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to www./https://iorr.org/albums/The-Rolling-Stones-Now.pdf Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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What do a graphic designer, a Star Trek fan who never saw the movie, a collaborator with a NASA scientist, and the creator of Public Enemy's logo all have in common? They are one man, Chuck D, who is largely responsible for the hip-hop master piece, Fear of a Black Planet. Grab a copy, the booklet too and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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Never has a cover image articulated an album's theme so well. A young woman, all alone in the middle of nowhere is only half a person and that half person is an amalgam of other people--angst and alienation in a collage. Grab a copy, the booklet too and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

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"He's not a friend, he's a psychopath." Here is the last or the latest story of a Slim Shady album cover. You choose. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]