Hidden images on classic album covers - and some are freaky

haha.... you never ever had to invert the Boston cover to see that the ships were guitars. good heavens!

Half the fun of buying an album was liner notes and imagery ! Something that generation Z and Y don`t understand ! GEN X ROCKS !

“Live Evil” is Easily my fav album art of all time. It’s so menacing, yet majestic. And the cues to Sab history just bring it on home.

I just assumed that EVERYONE knew the spaceships were guitars. I knew it the first time I saw the album in the stores.

The whole cover of "Somewhere in Time" by Iron Maiden. Not necessarily hidden messages but you can spend the length of the album looking for new stuff.

I study the sleeves and inners of my Iron Maiden records more than another. Derek Riggs was a master designer.

There was a band called Klaatu way back in the day. Everyone thought it was the Beatles reformed under a new name. The band really played it up by having a lot of Beatles things integrated into the album cover artwork.

Check out the upper left side Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards album cover. It isn't just a waterfall coming out of a rock. I still can't believe Roger Dean did this without telling anyone.

BOSTON debut blew my mind and I only found out last year 😅 Great video Frank!

Those artists probably had a great time with those little hidden things. Probably most went unnoticed, making them sad :)

On Michael Jackson's Dangerous cover, he has a picture of Allister Crowley and Allister Crowley is also on the Sergeant Pepper record also

There are a lot of references to Iron Maiden's history on the Somewhere In Time cover.

I've owned Iron Maiden Powerslave since 1984, never notice those hidden images. To this day i still find people never noticed The Who's "Who's Next" album cover where the band members appear to be zipping up their pants. Why ? Look at the concrete monolith behind them, there's "urine stains" on it. Yup the boys peed on it.

I always liked the Alice Cooper "DaDa" cover. They used a Salvador Dali painting, but substituted Alice's face in the eyes...it's either an old man or two Alice Coopers depending on how you look at it.

It's amazing how spot-on some old Rock and roll songs are with current events.

I bought the Mob Rules album but did not see the devil face until later. I never knew it was based on a previous work. The Led Zeppelin mirror image is HIGHLY subjective; just like the "reverse messages" in Stairway to Heaven; once someone tells you what to see ( or hear) then you will usually see/ hear that suggestion. I remember Pink Floyd coming full circle on the hidden message gag by inserting backwards talking into the intro to Dirty Woman ( Empty Spaces). The message? CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE FOUND THE SECRET MESSAGE

I must've looked at that Stones cover a thousand times and never knew, I found out just recently. Great stuff!! 👍

Going back to the Boston debut, when the cover is upside down it looks like a joint is being fired up 😎

It took me a ridiculous number of YEARS to figure out that Police cover! It's kind of funny that Sting's LED symbol got the highest hair and the biggest mouth. Another fun album cover to explore is 10cc's How Dare You, designed by those crazy Hipgnosis guys. The outside of the cover features two diagonally split screens, like you'd see on occasion in TV shows of the era. Each image has a different "scene," but in each scene you'll find the same couple -- in the background, on a TV screen, in a framed photograph, etc. Then, all the people featured on the outside cover are included in the inner gatefold image, in a crowd at a party. The four 10cc band members are in the crowd as well. It's interesting these days to see how prescient the photo is, since everyone at the party is on a phone!

I love the The Beatle's Sgt. Peppers album. So innovative and unique. Nothing and I mean NOTHING sounds like that album!❤❤