Before streaming, album covers and the lyric pages were everything! You’d buy and album, pull out the liner notes and follow along while listening.
Some album covers have become legendary and if they were shot in a real location (like Abbey Road) recreated by fans. So what are some of the top rock album cover recreations? Well, if you’re visiting California or the UK, you’re in luck cause most of them are there.
1. “Surfin’ Safari”, The Beach Boys: Paradise Cove in California
2. “Hotel California”, Eagles: The Beverly Hills Hotel in California
3. “Houses of the Holy”, Led Zeppelin: Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland
4. “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”, Oasis: Berwick Street in London
5. “Wish You Were Here”, Pink Floyd: Warner Brothers Studios in California
6. “The Joshua Tree”, U2: You probably thought it was taken at Joshua Tree National Park . . . it was actually taken closer to Death Valley National Park.
7. “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, David Bowie: The building is at 23 Heddon Street in London. There’s a plaque there.
8. “Black Sabbath”, Black Sabbath: The building on the cover, the Mapledurham Watermill, is located on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England.
9. “Rocky Mountain High”, John Denver: Slaughterhouse Falls on the Rio Grande Trail in Aspen, Colorado
10. “Made in Heaven”, Queen: It’s a statue of Freddie Mercury at Lake Geneva in Montreux, Switzerland
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