December 13, 2021

Great Album Covers: The Score, Head Games & Vacation

For their breakthrough 1996 album, The Score, The Fugees lifted the font and styling used for the cover of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and then added the heavily-shadowed faces of group members Wyclef Jean, Pras Michel and Lauryn Hill.


Foreigner's 1979 album Head Games featured the grainy image of a nubile high school girl seemingly startled as she's caught in the act invading a boy's bathroom. Seventeen-year-old Lisanne Falk (daughter of Peter Falk, aka TV's Columbo) was the teen model used for the photoshoot and years later she would gain fame as one of the Heathers in the 1988 movie of the same name.


Just like in the iconic video for the album's eponymous first single, the Go-Go's Vacation featured the group posing as professional water skiers. A popular all-female team from Cypress Garden, Florida (dressed in white chiffon-like skirts and matching head pieces) was filmed synchronized skiing and waving to the camera. The Go-Go's heads were then superimposed on the skiers' bodies and the result was the postcard-inspired cover for band's sophomore effort.



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