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On this work, a portion of the left and right sides were pasted twice each in order to help the original square image fill the whole 18 x 10 canvass. This was easy.
Now, the original album cover art was designed in the age of psychedelia. That was something new in my high school days and to me it was both hip and chic.
But something went wrong in the early 21st century. What was once electric is now unplugged; what was once picked was now strummed. In between
there was minimalism in art and music and psychedelic art never seemed to make a comeback. I decided to reverse it. I think I succeeded in
turning the poster colour and ink canvass into a metallic plate. The gears are now indestructible.
Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup power trio consisting of bassist/singer Jack Bruce, drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist/singer Eric Clapton.
The title of the album is based on a malapropism. Eric Clapton had been thinking of buying a racing bicycle and was discussing it with Ginger Baker, when a roadie
named Mick Turner commented, "it's got them Disraeli gears", meaning to say "derailleur gears", but instead alluding to 19th-century British Prime Minister,
Benjamin Disraeli. The band thought this was hilarious, and decided that it should be the title of their next album. More
This is the original album cover art design.
No 34, Rate Your Music, The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 114, Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 182, The Virgin All-Time Album Top 1000.
No. 82, Rolling Stone, The 100 Greatest Album Covers.
Art design by Martin Sharp. Album produced by Felix Pappalardi. Reaction (UK), Atco (US), Polydor (Germany) 1967.
Created for the psychedelic super-group by Australian artist Martin Sharp, the cover of Disraeli Gears is an icon of the swirling fluorescent fever of the late 1960s.
For the front cover, Sharp combined a publicity photo he’d been given by Eric Clapton with some Victorian elements and plenty of flower power roses and
feathers. Drawn in black and white, Sharp then coloured-in the design with fluorescent colors to make the iconic (and eye-stinging) sleeve for the
band’s second album. Sharp was attempting to capture the sound of the music in the cover, which he describes as a “warm florescent sound.” More
(A) Strange Brew - Sunshine of Your Love - World of Pain - Dance the Night Away - Blue Condition
(B) Tales of Brave Ulysses - SWLABR - We're Going Wrong - Outside Woman Blues - Take It Back - Mother's Lament
On this work, a portion of the left and right sides were pasted twice each in order to help the original square image fill the whole 18 x 10 canvass. This was easy.
Now, the original album cover art was designed in the age of psychedelia. That was something new in my high school days and to me it was both hip and chic.
But something went wrong in the early 21st century. What was once electric is now unplugged; what was once picked was now strummed. In between
there was minimalism in art and music and psychedelic art never seemed to make a comeback. I decided to reverse it. I think I succeeded in
turning the poster colour and ink canvass into a metallic plate. The gears are now indestructible.
Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup power trio consisting of bassist/singer Jack Bruce, drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist/singer Eric Clapton.
The title of the album is based on a malapropism. Eric Clapton had been thinking of buying a racing bicycle and was discussing it with Ginger Baker, when a roadie
named Mick Turner commented, "it's got them Disraeli gears", meaning to say "derailleur gears", but instead alluding to 19th-century British Prime Minister,
Benjamin Disraeli. The band thought this was hilarious, and decided that it should be the title of their next album. More
This is the original album cover art design.
No 34, Rate Your Music, The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 114, Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 182, The Virgin All-Time Album Top 1000.
No. 82, Rolling Stone, The 100 Greatest Album Covers.
Art design by Martin Sharp. Album produced by Felix Pappalardi. Reaction (UK), Atco (US), Polydor (Germany) 1967.
Created for the psychedelic super-group by Australian artist Martin Sharp, the cover of Disraeli Gears is an icon of the swirling fluorescent fever of the late 1960s.
For the front cover, Sharp combined a publicity photo he’d been given by Eric Clapton with some Victorian elements and plenty of flower power roses and
feathers. Drawn in black and white, Sharp then coloured-in the design with fluorescent colors to make the iconic (and eye-stinging) sleeve for the
band’s second album. Sharp was attempting to capture the sound of the music in the cover, which he describes as a “warm florescent sound.” More
(A) Strange Brew - Sunshine of Your Love - World of Pain - Dance the Night Away - Blue Condition
(B) Tales of Brave Ulysses - SWLABR - We're Going Wrong - Outside Woman Blues - Take It Back - Mother's Lament
"Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream reuniting in 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall from SvenGoran2 on YouTube.
