Every Beatles Album Cover Ranked Worst to Best

Is your favorite in the top spot?

So here they are, 12 to 1, all of them great in their own way:

Let It Be (both the album and the album cover) has always suffered from the same problem — the band never properly finished it.

Let It Be was released in May 1970, a month after Paul broke the news that the Beatles were no more. Ever since then, the album has been associated with the Beatles’ demise.

The cover’s black background hints at mourning. The quadrant layout seems to reinforce the idea that the band had ceased to be a band — they were now a collection of individuals forever packaged together — but no longer capable of working as a group.

The boys get a pass for this one — they had a lot going on. Released in December 1964, the cover reflects the band’s mood: exhausted from Beatlemania but somehow maintaining their prolific output.

The cover photo was taken in Hyde Park by Robert Freeman — a photographer and friend of the band.

According to Philip Norman’s biography of John Lennon, “Norwegian Wood” was inspired by Freeman’s wife, Sonny, with whom Lennon was carrying on an affair when the photo was taken.

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