Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
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/. Find album art images at discogs.com by searching the album title. Look for a new episode each Friday.
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Brain Salad Surgery--Emerson, Lake, and Palmer | The Story Behind the Cover
It’s part cathedral, part nightmare—a human face trapped in alien machinery, born from the mind of the man who would create Alien. Emerson, Lake & Palmer wanted shock value; H.R. Giger gave them something eternal. What began as a joke about a sexual euphemism turned into a biomechanical love letter—and a curse. Their artist’s muse would die by her own hand, his paintings would vanish into myth, and what’s left is a gatefold to the underworld of 1970s prog rock.
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