PLEASE PLEASE ME: - the Beatles debut album was recorded in 1962 and took only 9 hours to record. The album cover is quite a simple design and quite typical for an album cover. It consists of all band members acting normal and ‘’having a laugh’’ with the band name printed on and the album name in the bottom corner. It isn’t very imaginative and leaves little inspiration.

THE ROLLING STONES: - this is the comparative rolling stones first album. It was recorded in 1964 (2 years after PLEASE PLEASE ME) It is in the same boat with no bright eye catching colours. It is simple and in a nutshell boring. It keeps to the typical techniques and has the entire band on the front looking like they are just in a normal picture. However by not printing the bands name and album title on the cover it gives it a slightly more artistic edge. Over the Beatles album

LET IT BE: - this is the last Beatles album and was released in 1970. It is different to their first album cover in the way that it is far more artistic in its manor. Instead of showing the band all standing together as a group they are all separated. Perhaps to signify the separation of the band. Also it is a lot less cliché.

EXILE ON MAIN STREET: - this is the rolling stones latest album and was released this year. As you can see it is very different to the previous album covers from the band and from the Beatles. It features nothing but images of surreal black and white scenes. The cover doesn’t feature the band members at all and this makes a lot less conformist to the typical album cover. However it is a very recent release 40 years giving it a more up to date image like most album covers in recent years.