Alright, it’s time to get out of the ’70s for a bit on this series and get a little more current. As in almost to the 21st century.
I’m not usually a fan of using historical photographs on album covers, but this one – from the Roots’ classic 1999 album Things Fall Apart – is just so striking. The image was taken in the 1960s as riot police in Bedford-Stuyvesant chased down two black teens. And although the album title actually comes from a 1958 novel by Chinua Achebe, it is brutally appropriate given the cover image.
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did they use multiple covers for things fall apart? my copy has a different cover (a baby after some kind of bomb blast)
Yes, they did five covers in all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart_%28album%29#Cover_artwork