Sunday, March 1, 2009

Greatest Album Covers

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures



The image on the cover of Joy Divisions debut album is of 100 succesive pulses of the first pulsar (PSR B1919+21) discovered. The image was originaly published in Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy and was made of black lines on a white background. The cover image was picked by Bernard Sumner and design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Seville and Chris Mathan.

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