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Intro
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
Patti Smith - Horses
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Blur - Parklife
The Strokes - Is This It
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Lou Reed - Transformer
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Beatles - With The Beatles
The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Ramones - Ramones
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Sly And The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Pixies - Surfer Rosa And Come On Pilgrim
Battles - Mirrored
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Pink Floyd - Animals
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Beatles - The Beatles (aka The White Album)
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
The Clash - London Calling
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
1973
Bold, iconic and symbolic, the cover to Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album fulfilled every aspect of Richard Wright’s brief to be: “smarter, neater - more classy” than previous Pink Floyd covers.
Designed by longterm Floyd associates and masters of spaced out imagery, Hipgnosis and George Hardie, the dispersing prism references the lyrical content of the album and Pink Floyd’s extravagant light shows.
The prism image was the centrepoint of some fairly lavish packaging, which included two posters and stickers of the pyramids - take that Radiohead!
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Bonus trivia: The prism of light on The Dark Side Of The Moon misses out indigo from the spectrum.
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