T. rex sleeves:
From comparing a couple of the sleeves it's obvious to see a correlating pattern between them. They are very much image based, which I believe around the 70's was a very common thing.
I tend to work a lot with digital imagery, and hand drawn imagery, so I'll try these methods in my design and see what works and what doesn't.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_It_On_(T._Rex_song)
"Get It On" is a song by the British glam rock group T. Rex, featured on their 1971 album Electric Warrior. Written by frontman Marc Bolan, "Get It On" was the second chart-topper for T. Rex on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the song was retitled "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" to avoid confusion with a number of the same name by the group Chase.
Bolan claimed to have written the song out of his desire to record Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie", and said that the riff is taken from the Berry song. In fact, a line (And meanwhile, I'm still thinking) of "Little Queenie" is said at the fade of "Get It On".
This was the song that virtually ended the once-solid friendship between Bolan and John Peel, after Peel made clear his lack of enthusiasm for the song on air after playing his advance white label copy. Bolan and Peel only spoke once more before the former's death in 1977.
During a December 1971 Top of the Pops performance, Elton John mimed a piano on the song.
The track was recorded at Trident Studios, London and the piano glissando on the record was performed by Rick Wakeman. Wakeman, who was desperate for work at the time to pay his rent, had bumped into Bolan in Oxford Street, who offered him the session. Wakeman pointed out to Tony Visconti that the record did not actually need a piano player. Visconti suggested that he could add a gliss; Wakeman said that Visconti could do that, to which Bolan replied, "you want your rent, don't you?" Wakeman did and earned £9 for his efforts.
Grand piano was played by Blue Weaver and saxophones by Ian McDonald of King Crimson. Producer Visconti later recalled: "He played all the saxes, one baritone and two altos. I kept the baritone separate but bounced the altos to one track. I bounced the backup vocals to two tracks, making an interesting stereo image."
Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles (later known as Flo & Eddie, and later still as members Mothers of Invention) fame provided back up vocals on the song.
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