Each band member was their own personality despite the way they were always grouped together. This Album cover strives to emphasise this fact by showing each member in a series of different moods. John Lennon is seriously mocking throughout his photographs, which is how many of his colleagues remembered him. Paul McCartney is shown to be the joker of the band whilst Ringo comes across as more pensive. George Harrison however is the most interesting as he is blacked out in the third picture and shown smoking in the fifth. This may be due to the fact that George was the youngest member of the band and wanted to be portray the band as most young people are: as rebellious. The blacked out image may be in reference to his mysterious/hidden side as not many people knew how spiritual he was at the time and this conflicted with his rock star image.
The different images were imperative to the way The Beatles were viewed, it showed that The Beatles were able to have fun and let loose rather than becoming uptight and/or overconfident, and this stressed on their humble origins as average boys from Liverpool. The images are in black and white which is the way most people saw The Beatles: they either loved them or hated them, not to mention that the two colours give a classic appeal to the band suggesting they were there to stay and make an impact.
The cover is also an example of how far the industry has come and how music business has evolved in the last 40 years or so. The album cover advertises not only the band but their Label as well. No special editing has been used on this cover as such software was not available at the time.
Paramore's Brand New Eyes (2010): Paramore’s Brand new eyes album cover is very much different to that of their previous album Riot. To begin with the imagery is a lot simpler to look at in comparison as the Riot cover was much busier and more monotone to look at. The colour coordination of this cover is brighter and cleaner in comparison suggesting that the ‘new eyes’ of the band is a metaphor for the bands’ new, fresh start. These connotations are very important to the history of the band as during 2010 there were many rumours surrounding the possible break-up of the band; not to mention that by this time they knew that the Farro brothers would be leaving and that this was their last album together as a band.
The butterfly may be significant of their relationship with one another, which –as symbolised by the torn right wing, may be quite fragile, but equally beautiful. The separation of parts once again is iconic of the hardships each member faced together as a band resulting in the isolation they all felt. The colours of the butterfly hold their own significance, as black is representatitive of their musical genre and the ‘dark’ period they faced as a band. The plain and simple background has been utilised deliberately in order to draw attention to the butterfly thus, making the cover all the more effective.
Madonna's Confessions on the Dance floor (2005):
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