3 album covers in our archive
Fleetwood Mac is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 3 album covers from the 1970s. Released across Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records labels, the artwork sits in the rock, pop, experimental, folk tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering photography, black and white, found photograph, minimalist, graphic design, typographic. Below you'll find the full story behind each Fleetwood Mac cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.
Cover evolution
A snarling dog clamps onto a man's trouser leg on the front of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. The truth is gentler: it was producer Ken Caillat's dog Scooter, just playing, frozen forever mid-lunge. Behind that one embossed photo sits a wild sleeve project involving three photographers, blood on a collage, and a band who couldn't stand their own best image.
On the cover of Rumours, Mick Fleetwood strikes a courtly pose with wooden balls dangling between his legs. The story behind those balls, a toilet, and a couple of glasses of English ale, is stranger than anything the music suggests.
Two men in a doorway, one impossibly tall in a dark leotard sipping champagne, the other short and hovering a crystal ball at his fingertips. This colorless 1975 sleeve introduced a brand new Fleetwood Mac and picked up a nickname it never shook: the White Album.
