Why the Beatles are the greatest rock band ever #5: Album Covers

I came to the conclusion that it has been a year and a half since I have made a Beatles posting about why they were the greatest band ever... reason number 6 (in no particular order) is that they revolutionized album covers. Prior to the Beatles, album covers were basically boring and cheesy pictures of singers leaning over fences, smiling into the camera, or posed with other ridiculous and mind numbing images. After the Beatles, everything changed. We may look at what they did without thought of history and think that it they are not that exciting, but history shows that exciting album covers started right here with the Beatles (even some got SO out there that they had to take them off of the shelves, i.e. The Butcher Baby cover)... here are a few of the greats.