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The greatest album artwork of all time

As The Beatles' 'Sgt Pepper' is remade, see music's 50 best album covers

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44. Thom Yorke: ‘The Eraser’ – Inspired by floods in Cornwall in 2004, long-term Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood made a woodcut depicting a mock King Canute trying to beckon back the sea, but to no avail. The black and white imagery and pronounced lines give it extra weight.

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