2010 01 Royal Mail Stamps
UNDER THE COVERS Every picture tells a story. Especially when it comes to classic album art... Rolling Stones Let It Bleed By the time Robert Brownjohn came to design the anarchic sleeve for Let It Bleed , the American-born graphic designer had already made his mark by working on large-scale commercial projects for the likes of Pepsi, as well as creating the title sequences for James Bond movies, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger . His pop-art sensibilities were brought to bear on the Stones’s 1969 effort, Brownjohn’s sleeve sculpture being based on the initial title of ‘Automatic Charger’ - hence the cover shot suggesting a fully stacked record player - and augmented by the ca...