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The Fab Four collaborated with photographer Robert Whitaker on a series of weird 'pop art' photographs, but one of the series was plucked out of the set and plonked on the latest collection of pop tunes for teenagers - without any context our explanation.

The Beatles - Yesterday And Today 'bucther' cover: what were they thinking? Kraftwerk - Autobahn: British album artwork. The UK version went for a more graphical approach, which was later adapted for vinyl reissues in the 2010s. The original edition of this landmark piece of electronica featured a charming painting of the titular highway, complete with both ends of the German motoring experience: VW Beetle on one side, Mercedes on the other. Kraftwerk - Autobahn: deutsches plattenalbum design. When the album was remastered in 1996, designer Storm Thorgerson created a 3D model of the contraption and photographed that.

When Bowie had become a superstar in 1972, the album was reissued with a black-and-white glam-era shot of the musician.ĭavid Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World: MAN IN TROUSERS.ĭrummer Nick Mason drew the intricate pen-and-ink artwork for this 1971 collection of tracks. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The Worldĭavid Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World: MAN IN A DRESS.Ī lot of people were taken aback by the sight of Bowie reclining on a chaise lounge in a 'man's dress', especially the American label who rejected the shocking (for 1970) image.Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills & Bellyaches - the revised version. Try and see how many you can spot! This immediately ran into legal issues with the owners of the sweeties in question, so a less-contentious version was quickly pressed into service. It wouldn't be a Happy Mondays album without some sort of legal bother - for their third outing in 1990, their regular collaborators Central Station Design created a collage for the front cover featuring various sweet wrappers. Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills & Bellyaches - the copyright-troubling original. Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills & Bellyaches.The US edition of Is This It by The Strokes: buttock-free. The UK edition of Is This It by The Strokes: contains buttocks.Īmerica couldn't, er, face the naked rear end of the original UK album cover, so the NYC band's debut was dressed in the most un- Strokes-like design ever conceived. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet: the label's choice. They substituted it with a fake dinner invitation and it wasn't until the 1980s and the CD era that the original bog-based art was used. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet: the band's choice.ĭecca Records were appalled at the filthy, graffitied toilet wall that the Stones wanted for their 1968 album.

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If you buy the record today, of course, the balls are all present and correct.ĭavid Bowie - the back cover, plus canine testicles. Radio X looks at the times the cover art has been messed with - for censorship, taste or more obscure reasons.ĭavid Bowie - Diamond Dogs: the front cover.īowie's 1974 album certainly wasn't 'the dog's bollocks' as the half-man, half-canine hybrid of Belgian artist Guy Peellaert's cover painting had its knackers airbrushed out for British audiences.ĭavid Bowie - the back cover, minus canine testicles.

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