This was the first Beatles album to feature a gatefold cover ( the next would be Sgt.

The soundtrack album was released on vinyl album ( with a gatefold sleeve ), 8-track tape, and audio cassette by Arista Records in 1977, with a total running time of 41 minutes ( it was later released on compact disc in 1990 ).

The 1968 to 1972 album sleeves, plus several solo sets up to Ray Thomas's " Hopes, Wishes & Dreams " in 1976, were characterised by striking surreal scenic sleeve artwork ( mostly gatefold sleeves ) by artist Phil Travers.

After their On the Threshold of a Dream album ( 1969 ), they created Threshold Records, prompted in part by disputes with London / Deram over album design costs ( their gatefold record jackets and expensive cover art were not popular with company executives ).

Initially all the album releases were gatefold sleeves and coloured vinyl, often with covers by The Designers Republic or Phil Wolstenholme.

For a short period of time, the album was available in Canada also as a red vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve with poster ( catalogue number SANR-1-1015 ), and as a limited edition picture disc ( catalogue number SRP-1300 ), both of which have become much sought after collector's items.

On the inside gatefold of the album, just below the lyrics to " The Necromancer ", the Latin phrase " Terminat hora diem ; terminat auctor opus " appears.

This album published in US as LP record with gatefold cover in 1968, as remastered gold CD in 1989, as DVD-audio in 2001 and as remastered numbered edition super audio CD in 2009.

A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gatefold artwork to Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde ( 1966 ), but because it was used without Cardinale's permission, the photo was removed from the cover art in later pressings.

The album cover, including an elaborate gatefold mural featuring a fantasy landscape of mushroom and fairies, was by J. F. Holmes and D. Powell of Wonder Graphics.

* Shirley Bassey wore a sleeveless chiffon catsuit for a gatefold album photograph, and in concert.

The original album cover, commissioned to William Neal who designed and painted every canvas, used a gatefold sleeve, depicting on the outside blank picture frames labelled with the titles of the pieces: " The Old Castle ", " The Gnome ", etc.

While Other Voices inside gatefold cover states " All songs written by Krieger, Densmore, Manzarek ," a lyric sheet was included with early LP editions of the album that listed individual writing credits, and some early versions of the LP include these credits on the LP record labels as well.

A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, re-issuing their first two albums — The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets — in a new gatefold sleeve.

Besides being available on CD, the album was also released as a gatefold LP, limited to 2 000 copies.

( On the album cover's inside gatefold, however, Kaye is pictured playing a Hammond spinet organ, probably an L-100 or M-100.

By far the band and Mayer had most fun making the Live album which was released in a gatefold sleeve.

The following year Sharp designed the spectacular gatefold sleeve for Cream's third album, the double LP set Wheels of Fire ( 1968 ), for which he won the New York Art Directors Prize for Best Album Design in 1969.

The original idea was to package the CD version of the album in a 12 " gatefold sleeve to replicate the vinyl experience, but was abandoned due to issues with getting it stocked in the UK's main record chain HMV.

This album published in US as LP record with gatefold cover in 1969, and as reissued LP record and CD in 1990.

Originally available on CD, Malleus Crease was issued in Long Play by Italian independent record company W Dabliu ( licensed by Nuggetphase, the group's then recently founded independent label ) in 1997, in gatefold cover, including three posters, each one portraying the covers of the band's first and second albums, and of the album in question.

In 1988 Castle Communications re-issued this album along with Overkill – in a gatefold sleeve.

A school-age portrait of Van Vliet appears on the front of this sheet, while the cover of the gatefold enigmatically shows Beefheart in a ' Quaker ' hat, obscuring his face with the head of a fish.

The photo inside the gatefold cover showed The Beatles standing in front of a montage of photos, which some have assumed was the source of inspiration for the cover of Sgt.

The year Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, moved in, he was photographed among four garden gnomes located on the main lawn for the cover of All Things Must Pass, and again with his father Harry six years later, with the photo appearing inside the gatefold cover of Thirty Three & 1 / 3.

It was reissued as a remastered 180 gm LP with gatefold cover in 2008.

More cows appear on the back cover, again with no text or titles, and on the inside gatefold.

The first pressing of " Bullet " consisted of 1, 000 copies on black 7 " vinyl with a gatefold cover and lyrics sheet.

Hipgnosis covers rarely featured artists ' photos on the outside, and most were in a gatefold cover format to provide ample space for their slickly photographed tableaux.

This proved too expensive and was quickly followed by a paper / card replica with a gatefold cover.

* Charisma Records CAS 1020 ( 1970 ): 1st issue, scroll label, gatefold cover with art and credits.

* Charisma Records CAS 1020 ( 1974 ): Reissue, Mad Hatter label, gatefold cover with art and credits.

* ABC / Impulse AS-9205 ( 1970 ): 1st issue, gatefold cover with art, lyrics and credits.

* ABC ABCX-816 ( 1974 ): Reissue, black label, gatefold cover.

* ABC ABCX-816 ( 1976 ): Reissue, rainbow label, gatefold cover.

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No gatefold cover.

The inner gatefold was designed to look like an air mail envelope, similar to the style later used for Gracias Por La Música and even had a photo of ABBA incorporated into a stamp in the corner.

The album's gatefold cover art was designed by Ernie Cefalu and features a sepia-toned Drew Struzan illustration of the band members in front of a 1930s garage, accompanied by such period movie stars as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Peter Lorre, and Groucho Marx.

" In the book The Last Party, John Harris wrote: " If its opulent packaging-like a double album, its vinyl version came in a gatefold sleeve-seemed designed to confirm that the group had left their indie peer group behind, the music it contained made the point explicit.

The gatefold sleeve design uses illustrations by Gopala on the front and back, and contains a monochrome glued-in booklet inside.

The albums were remastered by Albini and Bob Weston and packaged with new liner notes and gatefold artwork.

The image on the inside of the gatefold sleeve is of a powerplant electricity substation ( appropriately, as ' kraftwerk ' means " power station " in German ), photographed by Düsseldorf conceptualist artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their photographic Typologies series that celebrated the industrial and urban environment – and by extension, the society that built it – by showing multiple variations of ordinarily mundane building types.

The inner gatefold spread on the original vinyl LP featured a series of photographs taken by designer / photographer Ed Thrasher at the Warner Brothers studio backlot.

Brian Wilson poked fun at the title by hiding behind an eye examination chart inside the gatefold cover's photo.

The original Track UK issue came in a gatefold sleeve with a large B & W portrait photo of the group by Donald Silverstein spread over the inside and an orange sheet insert with overprinted lyrics in red ; the allegedly high cost of this packaging was a topic of note in the music press.

Alternate gatefold cover of the album Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ( 1989 ) featuring the painting " Blue Desert " by Roger Dean.

In August 2009, the band released Toying with the Insanities Volume I on gatefold CD, followed by Toying with the Insanities Volume II in September 2009.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band which had cut-out inserts, lyrics, a gatefold sleeve even though it was a single album, The Rolling Stones ' Exile on Main Street which had a gatefold and a series of 12 perforated postcards as inserts ( also by photographer Norman Seeff ), and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon which had a gatefold, lyrics, no title on the sleeve and poster and sticker inserts.