Examples of cover art designed by famous artists, actors

including photographers like Mapplethorpe might get out of control, but..

Richard Avedon: Sly Stone - Fresh
Andy Warhol: VU & Nico
Annie Liebovitz: Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (and others)

http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/exhibition/event_details.php?id=3298

William Eggleston special:
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/images/6709.jpg
http://www.bellesound.com/graphics/gor_sna3.jpg

Dennis Hopper took this:
http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-09-23/cover.jpg

sonic youth to thread"

Sonic Nurse=Richard Prince
Goo=Raymond Pettibon
Daydream nation= Gerhard Richter
Rather Ripped = Christopher Wool
Dirty=Mike Kelley
Destroyed Room=Jeff Wall
Washing Machine=Mike Mills(cheating, he was just a very famous graphic designer at the time)

can't think of any more right now

has tony oursler ever featured actually, what with his close relationship to them

Mapplethorpe took the cover shot for Marquee Moon too, but they used a color photocopy, thereby making it brilliant.

I know millions of these, it's one of my favourite things to notice, but I'm drawing a huge blank!

Replacements - Tim (Robert Longo)
Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig (Tim Noble and Sue Webster)
Birthday Party - Junkyard (Big Daddy Roth)
Swans - Burning World (Mapplethorpe)
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues (Robert Rauschenberg)
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers (Peter Blake)
Iggy Pop - Brick By Brick (Charles Burns)

...which brings to mind this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Backwards_Alphabet

william eggleston special's going to get out of control. a whole bunch of primal scream (the best maybe dixie narco), big star's radio city and alex chilton's like flies on sherbert, joanna newsom's last ep and drag city stuff like the jews album.

honourary mention for cakebaking delia smith and the stones let it bleed.

Cool, didn't know about that Nick Cave one.

The only one I can think of is some Belgian Band with a yoshimoto nara painting on the cover. They're called absinthe minded.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1338/1279806085_98f7a16c73.jpg?v=0

This counts, right?

actually, think I like that cave cover more now, and I don't even care for Noble and webster all that much

did delia and gavin do their own artwork?

Get ready has a Juergen Teller photo on the cover (new order, that is)

Unrest - Perfect Teeth (Richard Avedon)

but richter didn't actually design the daydream nation cover, did he? it's just a detail from one of his paintings... ?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417Z30NK2GL._SS400_.jpg

Andre Galuzzi - Berghain 01 (Wolfgang Tillmans)

but richter didn't actually design the daydream nation cover, did he? it's just a detail from one of his paintings... ?

srsly, i was going with the egglestone brigade as a precedent.

remain in light is tibor kalman

oh yea, Spiderland cover photo taken by Will Oldham

linder:

http://shotbybothsides.com/oa_cover.jpg

Eye
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/b/beck-midnight_vultures.jpg

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/G/gleason_echo1f.jpg
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/G/gleason_lonesome.html

Back cover - Gleason and Dali, together at last:
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/G/gleason_echo1b.jpg

Basquiat:
http://www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/media/Offs/offfs.0.jpg

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/30282.jpg

My fave Jim Woodring has done a goodly number, esp. by Bill Frisell.

David Byrne painted Speaking in Tongues, I thought....

Rauschenberg designed the ltd. editio9n see-thru sleeve for "Speaking In Tongues."

Just wondering, how famous was Nagel before "Rio?"

Pretty ubiquitous, if my memory serves.

http://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Records-Covers-Artists-Schraenen/dp/8489771162

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/riofront1.jpg

http://www.chasermerch.com/images/the%20cars%20candy%20o.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/The_who_face_dances_album.jpg

The album cover features paintings of the members by many British painters, who were commissioned by Peter Blake, who had previously designed the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Artists include Tom Phillips, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, David Hockney, Clive Barker, R.B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield, and Peter Blake himself.

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/darb321

Panter!
http://photos1.flickr.com/2584869_819ac15a33_m.jpg
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/Z/zappa/zappa_studiof.jpg
http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/news/yo_la_tengo_ole-692.jpg

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/monocle/the_album_art_of_savage_pencil/

Fred Tomaselli: The Magnetic Fields - i

Is the Nagel revival underway? Or has it already come and gone?

A.R. Penck!
discography: http://www.bb10k.com/PENCK.html
samples, via WFMU's Beware of the Blog

http://bp1.blogger.com/_hVT5O1qjUOk/SCmkvbrplpI/AAAAAAAAAIE/K0NvFHAeDZ0/s1600-h/Molly+Hatchet+-+Flirtin+With+Disaster+(Expanded).jpg

Fuck it. Frank Frazetta, in case it doesn't work this time...

http://www.songlyricscollection.com/lyrics/m/molly-hatchet/flirtin-with-disaster/flirtin-with-disaster.jpg

Warhols:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Whitelightwhiteheat.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/53430504_0f8c01e900.jpg?v=0

http://howegelb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/rollingstonesstickyfingers.jpg

oh yea, Spiderland cover photo taken by Will Oldham

someone told me this today! I had no idea!