Colour & Black & White versions of this image entitled ‘The futures a bit fishy we’ve got a hand in it’ are found here. This image Hag created after making the Electric Light Orchestra cover. The background street was later re- worked by Hag for a calendar entitled ‘The Future’. Wikipedia ‘ELO Secret Messages’ Album Page. The third time a blank panel was made as shown above so the track list could be added at the print stage in case of further changes. This can be seen in their albums ‘Electric Light Orchestra: The Studio Albums 1973-1977’, ‘Light Years: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra’ ‘All Over The World: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra’ and ‘Electric Light Orchestra: Out Of The Blue’. The back of the frame was photographed three times as the final track listings kept changing (see Wikipedia). Most ELO album covers employ a sans-serif typeface in all caps. Hag photographed the gold frame and picture frame back and supervised the colour composite adding the gold frame and engraved titles to the image. The gold frame was then composited using transparency material by Studio 10 London UK. Hag created the cover photograph from the 9th to 13th December 1982 in black & white. Kim Harris then hand tinted the image completing the work on 19th January 1983. All photographs by Hag. The foreground contains figures made from picture library slides of obscure classical paintings (for copyright reasons). The cover was designed by David Costa of ‘Jubilee Graphics’ which later became ‘Wherefore Art’.
The front cover re mastered in 2023 Proof of the back cover without the final track listings Hag took the photograph of Royal Street, Rochdale, Lancashire UK on the 6th September 1976.
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