Album cover art

[grayhank]

Not sure if it was sold for one day or not (that sounds more like an urban legend). But it was pulled and repasted rather quickly, that much is true. That cover is considered the holy grail of Beatles album covers. I've only ever seen it once in person and it was going for over $500 at the time (that was around 1982).

The story is far more fascinating than the actual picture. It was the Beatles way of sending a message to Capital Records about chopping up their albums to make additional albums - mainly Rubber Soul and Revolver which bore little resemblance to thier original UK counterparts. Capitol butchered those two albums to make "Yesterday and Today" and added an extra track or two.

[Bill]

But seriously:
My favorite artist is Mark Dancey. He did a bunch of early Sub Pop album covers, Soundgarden's Bad Motor Finger cover and was behind Motorbooty magazine in the early 90's. I own a few originals from his band, Big Chief...

A few before framing:

[supes]

Meatloaf Bat out of Hell

[brannon86]

I have always like YES Fragile

[ScottA]

My mother has the Herb Albert Whipped Cream album. I must have stared a hole in it growing up. Funny thing is I don't think I've ever actually listened to it, and I like Herb Albert.

[Hector]

Kempo...man, I used to have the older Queen vinyl albums, I gave them away after I switched to CDs, man, I wanna cry now, lol.

YES, 'News of the World' is my favorite album cover as well, I always loved that robot art from artist Frank Kelly Freas (taken from a cover of 1953s Astounding Science Fiction)...I love it so much in fact that I almost got a tattoo based on it...but have not done it yet.

I'm glad I found a fellow Queen fan...they are my favorite band in the world by miles and miles.

Here's little facts on how popular Queen is, especially in England:

As of 2005, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a total of 1,322 weeks or twenty-seven years on the United Kingdom album charts; more time than any other musical act including The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Also in 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place on the list of acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts. In 2006, the Greatest Hits album was found to be the United Kingdom's all-time best selling album, with sales upwards of 5,407,587 copies, over 604,295 more copies than its nearest competitor, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Their Greatest Hits II album came in seventh with sales upwards of 3,631,321 copies.

One of rock's most successful, influential and popular acts, the band have released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They have sold over 300 million albums worldwide including 32.5 million albums in the United States alone as of 2004. The band are also the only group in which every member has composed more than one chart-topping single

[Hector]

man those are some great pics,I never saw those before

Queen always came up with some cool interior stuff.

Here some images to promote Bicycle Race and Fat Bottomed Girls (CONTAINS NUDITY)...




Inside The Jazz album..

http://www.collectable-records.ru/images/GROUPS/Queen/Jazz/poster.jpg

[JPkempo]

I have that poster

[grayhank]

One of rock's most successful, influential and popular acts, the band have released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They have sold over 300 million albums worldwide including 32.5 million albums in the United States alone as of 2004. The band are also the only group in which every member has composed more than one chart-topping single

Hector, I LOVE QUEEN...Really I Do. They were the first band I ever saw play live in concert....but I'm gonna have to ask you to reveal your source on this one. 18 #1 albums AND singles is a bit of a stretch.

Digging out my Billboard reference books....

Starting with "US Album Charts" by Joel Whitburn 6th Edition:

Queen I - Pos #83
Queen II - Pos #49
Sheer Heart Attack - Pos #12
A Night At The Opera - Pos #4
A Day At The Races - Pos #5
News of the World - Pos #3
Jazz - Pos #6
Live Killers - Pos #16
The Game - Pos #1
Flash Gordon Soundtrack - Pos #23
Greatest Hits (1981 Version) - Pos #14
Hot Space - Pos #22
The Works - Pos #23
A Kind of Magic - Pos #46
The Miracle - Pos #24
Innuendo - Pos #30
Classic Queen - Pos #4
Live at Wembley '86 - Pos #53
Greatest Hits (1992 Version) - Pos #11
Made In Heaven - Pos #58
Greatest Hits Platinum (Features Vol 1,2,3) - Pos #48
Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You (2004 Version) - Pos #42
Return of the Champions - Pos #84

US Singles "Billboard's Top Pop Singles" by Joel Whitburn 1955-2002

I'm only gonna list the songs that actually made the top ten to keep it short.

Bohemian Rhapsody (1976 Release) - Pos #9
We Are the Champions ("We Will Rock You" did NOT Chart) - Pos #4
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Pos #1
Another One Bites the Dust - Pos #1
Bohemian Rhapsody (1992 Release) - Pos #2

UK Singles "British Hit Singles" by Paul Gambaccini 8th Ed.

Killer Queen #2
Bohemian Rhapsody #1
You're My Best Friend #7
Somebody to Love #2
We Are the Champions #2
Don't Stop Me Now #9
Crazy Little Thing Called Love #2
Another One Bites the Dust #7
Flash Theme #10
Under Pressure w/David Bowie #1
Radio GaGa #2
I Want to Break Free #3
It's A Hard Life #6
One Vision #7
A Kind of Magic #3
I Want It All #3
Breakthru #7

Those are the facts based on Billboard (which is THE main source in the music world). Unless you are counting #1's in every possible country in the world I think your source is a little inaccurate.

[huedell]

I always thought my favorite albums' cover was great
EAT EM AND SMILE, I mean

Also, ASIA's debut album cover is recognized as one of the best

[JPkempo]

Grayhawk

If you look at the end of his post it says "World wide"
I know there huge in Japan and Rio

[Dr. Phibes]

RUSH...Moving Pictures. I think it's very artistically done.

[brannon86]

WOW, I havent seen that Fat Bottom Girls cover since it came out back in the 70's. Cool....