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Ye Gods: The Twenty Greatest Prog Rock Record Sleeves
The Quietus , February 11th, 2018 13:43

Jerry Ewing, editor of Prog magazine, shares with tQ his twenty favourite prog rock album sleeves along with an interview about his new book Wonderous Stories, followed by an exclusive extract from the book itself

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ELP "Brain Salad Surgery"
"Strikingly Giger. What more can you say? Other than the title was a euphemism for fellatio, so Giger added a phallus inside the model, his wife’s throat. Prompting a US record company executive to ask if they could make the sleeve “less penisy”."