the stickers on records

Posted on March 26, 2012 | 3 Comments

King of America absolutely polluted with stickers. Elvis Costello. 1986.

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3 responses to “the stickers on records”

  1. serviceton's avatar serviceton | March 27, 2012 at 11:06 pm | Reply

    From memory (dont have time to check my fact right now) they really fucked this one up – as the cover was supposed to *not* feature the name Elvis Costello and *not* in fact feature any writing on it at all. On “proper copies”, flipping the album over would reveal that it was called King of America. The identity of the hirsute monarch on the front could only be obtained via the spine. the inner sleeve, or by facial recognition. Er…. thought you’d want to know…

    • chainedandperfumed's avatar chainedandperfumed | March 28, 2012 at 9:25 am | Reply

      And I think that this release was also officially credited to “The Costello Show” to reflect the mix of musicians that were involved (i.e. not just The Attractions)

  2. serviceton's avatar serviceton | April 1, 2012 at 11:58 pm | Reply

    Absolutely. A fact I thought I was mentioning, but see that I didn’t at all.

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