2 album covers in our archive
Funkadelic is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 2 album covers from the 1970s. Released across Westbound and Warner Bros. Records labels, the artwork sits in the funk, rock tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering photography, primal, psychedelic, earth, transcendent, illustration. Below you'll find the full story behind each Funkadelic cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.
A Black woman's face emerging from earth — mouth open in a scream or ecstatic cry — matches the primal intensity of Eddie Hazel's legendary guitar solo, recorded in a single take under the influence of LSD.
George Clinton called Pedro Bell an 'urban Hieronymus Bosch' who 'inverted psychedelia through the ghetto.' On Funkadelic's biggest album, Bell didn't just draw a cover — he built the visual myth of P-Funk itself, signing on as an 'electric marker heathen of speedomatic dabblings.'
