Untold Stories Behind Some Of Music’s Most Popular Albums

Jackson Sawa | August 7, 2018 1:33 pm

There’s A Reason Why The Cover Of Rubber Soul Looks Distorted

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In 1965, The Beatles released their album Rubber Soul. The record demonstrated a much more psychedelic feel. The slightly distorted and warped angle of the album cover was unintentional, but the band ended up loving it. When the photographer Robert Freeman was showing the group the slides, he was projecting the photo onto a piece of cardboard to reveal how it would look on an album sleeve.

When the cardboard slipped a little, it elongated the image, which is the style they decided to go with. Furthermore, Charles Front added the lettering which if help up to a mirror reads “Road Abbey.” Of the album, George Harrison said, that “We lost the ‘little innocents’ tag, the naiveté, and Rubber Soul was the first one where we were fully fledged potheads.”