Lovely licks - classic album covers to appear on stamps
Come January the Royal Mail are going to have 11 'classic' record sleeves adorning their stamps. Cool idea, shame they picked some duff looking ones.
So, the Royal Mail are going to put some album covers on stamps in January in a series that they've imaginatively called ' The Classic Album Covers Series', celebrating the artwork by making it really small.
Hopefully by January you'll be able to actually send and receive items without the worry of them turning up two months late.
The albums chosen are:
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
The Chris Martin Band - A Rush of Blood To The Head
Blur - Parklife
New Order - Power, Corruption And Lies
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Clash - London Calling
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
They'll be available from January 7.
Postman Pat said: "This band of designers and photographers have not only reflected the visual styles of many musical cultures, but have also defined and created them, too. The stamp issue explores some of the most potent graphic images of modern times, many of which have provided a visual soundtrack to people's lives".
Here's a few which should have made the cut:
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
Roxy Music: Roxy Music
King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground and Nico
Stone Roses: Stone Roses
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Peter Guy - is at the forefront of Liverpool's independent music scene reporting & reviewing on the latest sounds in Merseyside and beyond.
They'd never go for that dodgy Scorpions one with the kid on it. Why not The Cramps and The Tramps so we can buy cramps and tramps stamps?
They should have used a whitney houston album cover so simon cowell can lick her backside even more.
Off the top of my head, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division and MBV's Loveless should defo have made it! And isn't the Beatles Sgt Pepper the most famous cover ever?
The Chris Martin Band? Ha! Good one.
What? How could they forget Roger Dean?
I love Pink Floyd, but why on earth would someone choose The Division Bell ?
Anything prior to The Final Cut
is what every fan considers "their classic period". I'd even go further
and say pre-Animals, but that's just me.