Try and see how many you can spot! This immediately ran into legal issues with the owners of the sweeties in question, so a less-contentious version was quickly pressed into service. It wouldn't be a Happy Mondays album without some sort of legal bother - for their third outing in 1990, their regular collaborators Central Station Design created a collage for the front cover featuring various sweet wrappers. Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills & Bellyaches - the copyright-troubling original. Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills & Bellyaches.The US edition of Is This It by The Strokes: buttock-free. ![]() The UK edition of Is This It by The Strokes: contains buttocks.Īmerica couldn't, er, face the naked rear end of the original UK album cover, so the NYC band's debut was dressed in the most un- Strokes-like design ever conceived. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet: the label's choice. They substituted it with a fake dinner invitation and it wasn't until the 1980s and the CD era that the original bog-based art was used. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet: the band's choice.ĭecca Records were appalled at the filthy, graffitied toilet wall that the Stones wanted for their 1968 album. ![]() If you buy the record today, of course, the balls are all present and correct.ĭavid Bowie - the back cover, plus canine testicles. ![]() Radio X looks at the times the cover art has been messed with - for censorship, taste or more obscure reasons.ĭavid Bowie - Diamond Dogs: the front cover.īowie's 1974 album certainly wasn't "the dog's bollocks" as the half-man, half-canine hybrid of Belgian artist Guy Peellaert's cover painting had its knackers airbrushed out for British audiences.ĭavid Bowie - the back cover, minus canine testicles.
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