Album classic design - sticky fingers "by the Rolling Stones

sticky fingers and face was released in 1971, a line under what has been in transition, and shock in an ongoing saga that is the Rolling Stones.

    * The first album to record, without any contribution from the founding member Brian Jones, who will be tragically died two years ago in his pool.
    * This was the first album from the infamous Altamont concert, where he was stabbed to death scenes of the festival by the owners of hell directly in front of a stage where the Stones tried to do.
    * The appointment was first launched in November to record the Rolling Stones, after a sudden split with Decca.
    * This was the first album to feature new guitarist Brian Jones replacement, Mick Taylor.

These disorders certainly not the band took the easy actually played well and have greatly enhanced picture and creative contribution, and installed the follow-up fingers and Exile on Main Street, no doubt, the best albums of them. Nor is it for them to direct the cover LL controversial design played a role in landing them in hot water again.

Probably one of the most iconic of the 70s album cover waist to the bottom of the fire front shape male figure-hugging jeans tight, leaving very little imagination. The initial print run full working zipper!

Cover the outcome of a meeting between Mick Jagger and The Godfather pop art, Andy Warhol, New York Evening types are very popular with the international jet set of 70. According to Warhol seems to be real fun to make zipfly the cover, and this comment from concept has been born.

Suggested that a lot of speculation when the image model used was, in fact, Jagger himself. Since then, the displaced because of rumors that were probably more than Warhol hanger, and regularly called Joe Dallesandro.

Using the concept of Warhol and graphic design to meet the end connector was innovative music performed by Craig Brown, who also worked on Alice Cooper album outside the school. It was filmed by Billy's name.

To ensure implementation of the zip has not scratched vinyl interior, additional piece of card that was introduced with regard to the other people and fired almost at the same distance and angle, it appeared only in his underwear. Thus, when it was canceled zipper, a glimpse of what this image was received by all members of the public record painful or awkward to buy.

However, the problem occurs when pressure is delivered first. Photo stacking on top of each other to produce pressure on the album zip code above. It managed to vinyl harmful destroy 2.3 Track: Sister Morphine. And threatened the designer, Craig Brown, under the Atlantic Records label distribution, a large process - but he was a genius, a simple, yet, while solving Depression "very high" for pulling down a very zip before sending, so that it would do no harm only to the central label.

But there was no such easy solution to deal with various shops that refused to start because of the nature of this album was a "slut coverage" - referring to the lack of a clear blue jeans and suggested that what was underneath.

Similarly, the fascist dictator, General Franco banned the lid open in Spain and has been replaced with alternatives might be "finger. This is a picture to open the box of treacle from the appearance of three fingers cut off, and syrup molasses, suggesting blood - these fascists, crazy, eh?

Moreover, this album also saw the first use of language is now legendary Rolling Stones 'lips' slogan. "

Even today, without working zipper and controversial album cover subject of the fingers are still all over the world will instantly recognize them, and gives well-deserved place in any list of album most distinctive designs of all time.