The Rolling Stones' album cover for 'Sticky Fingers' was like an in-your-face closeup of the hip-swinging band frontman Mick Jagger ... Make it advertising magic and art all wrapped up in one.

COVER ART: THE VELVET ... Warhol's iconic images grace no less than 50 album covers, ... (rumored to be the same model on the cover of the Stones' "Sticky Fingers") ...

The covers of Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Underground and Nico are simple and evocative. ... was charged with the task of creating album art that matched the dystopian nightmare of the music.

Neither album cover would bother most rock fans and casual enjoyers today. However, the original album cover for Sticky Fingers caused a bit of a ruckus when it was released in 1971.

UPDATE: The Rolling Stones have released a limited-edition version of Sticky Fingers with the band’s rare alternate Spanish cover art. The album features an image of a woman’s hand emerging ...

Think of the Sex Pistols’ defaced monarch (No. 1 on Q magazine’s just released list of the top 100 album covers), the operable zipper on the Stones’ ”Sticky Fingers” (No. 18), and the ...

Warhol ignored this, creating one of the most complex and memorable album covers in rock history for “Sticky Fingers,” the 1971 album that took the Stones from stars to legends.

Released in April 1971, Sticky Fingers sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. More than 50 years later, it is still hailed as one of rock’s greatest albums. Likewise, the LP’s cover art ...