The Beatles – Rubber Soul (1965)
Design by Robert Freeman and Charles Front
This was the album in which the famous mushroom hairstyle and clean-cut images were exchanged for a more psychedelic look. As it turns out, the warped angle of the sleeve was actually a happy accident. “[Photographer] Robert Freeman was showing us the slides,” Paul McCartney later explained. “He had a piece of cardboard that was album cover-size, and he was projecting the photographs onto it. We had just chosen the photograph when the cardboard fell backward a little, elongating the photograph. It was stretched, and we went, ‘That’s it, Rubber So-o-oul, hey, hey! Can you do it like that?’”
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Charles Front then added the eye drop lettering. And here’s a fun fact: when the album is held upside down in front of a mirror, it appears to say “Road Abbey.” Pretty cool, huh?