Album covers may steal the headlines, but as this countdown shows there are plenty of stunning single and EP covers from over the decades. Here we present our top 40 favourites of all time – from the aesthetically-pleasing to the controversial to the bizarre. What will make number one?
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40. Radiohead: 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' (1993) - For a band with such a serious image this wacky cover from 1993 is something of an anomaly for Radiohead. The shocked looking baby with plastic eyes was part of an ongoing theme for Oxford's finest at the time - the album cover to 'Pablo Honey' also features a baby's head.
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