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

Send us Fan Mail 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

Send us Fan Mail 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

Send us Fan Mail 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.com

Send us Fan Mail 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.com

Send us Fan Mail 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 love to hear from you at Albu...

Send us Fan Mail 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.com

Send us Fan Mail 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 videotaped the shows brought his list to life on this album. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail 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.com

Send us Fan Mail 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.com

Send us Fan Mail 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 Albumartthecoverstories@gma...

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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.com

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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 Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.co...

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Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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.pdf

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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!

Send us Fan Mail 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/ 

Send us Fan Mail 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.pdf

Send us Fan Mail 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.