Ralph Steadman’s 21 Best Designed Album Covers

Few designers in history are as popular in the last 40 years as Ralph Steadman. You can’t even think of the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson without Steadman’s dark and often surreal illustrations helping Thompson’s stories come to life. Not eager to settle into the book industry, he designed many album covers, too. Here’s a look at 21 of his best.

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