The Smiths Salford Lads Club

The Smiths Salford Lads ClubThis photographic print by Stephen Wright pictures The Smiths during their famous Salford Lads Club album cover shoot for The Queen Is Dead in Manchester during the Winter of 1985. The famous photograph from this shoot was originally used for the inner sleeve of the band's The Queen Is Dead album in 1986, 30 years prior to this publication. That photo of The Smiths was taken on a murky and cold Salford day in 1985. If you can imagine trying to take

In Cover Stories you’ll find the stories of over 70 albums

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For a long while there was a mockup of this artwork on the wall at StormStudios

celebrates the wonderful work produced by Hipgnosis and StormStudios for 10cc

If the sheet was not white when displayed the next morning the marriage contract might be in jeopardy

Duffy was winding down his photographic career

5cm black & white contact sheet from the Definitely Maybe album cover shoot

has been very popular and availability is now low

Storm describes the concept for this album cover art as a cross between the Victorian notion of the Homunculus - the interior voice of conscience characterised as another entity inside ourselves - and Borges' writing about the dreamer

Set against the sky in the landscape is the celebrated label artwork for Swan Song

Printed in Goldman's hometown in Canada before being signed and sent on to Hypergallery in the UK

released in 1970