My all time favourite in this category. The original 1961 controversial painting ‘Annunciation’ from Mati Klarwein that became widely known as the cover from Santana’s Abraxas in '77.
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Yes, of course, some art used on albums started life quite independently, even before records existed
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Of the age where, in times long past, bedroom walls (uni. dorm room in my case) were plastered with Roger Dean I was very surprised it got to the 39th post before any of his album covers were mentioned!
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oh, and the work of Storm Thorgerson
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Peter Gabriel - New Blood
(Apparently it’s an image of a single blood cell on the tip of a needle under an electron microscope).
Minimalist and beautiful
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I’ve always thought that this was a terrible cover. Don’t know what they were thinking. Relevant to the music??. Like the music though.
I suppose one person’s Artistic is another person’s Complete B*llocks. Lol.
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I’ve only just realised that I was confusing SY with these:
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Not a mobile phone in sight! Imagine if it were a contemporary cover.
I prefer the artwork for Script and Fugazi to be honest, but Misplaced Childhood was presumably Marillion’s most commercial and successful Fish era offering.
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Close enough…
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I assume the ‘object’ is meant to have some kind of ‘presence’.
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As in some kind of alien ‘item’ maybe?
It’s one of those simple covers that actually makes you think deeper along the lines of ‘what on earth is that thing?’.
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Simple and utterly iconic.
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Great choice. I have it.
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