The Rolling Stones Posters
Every The Rolling Stones album cover, era by era
The Golden Run1969 to 1972
- 1969Let It Bleed A gaudy cake baked by a young Delia Smith crowns one of rock's strangest and warmest covers.
- 1971Sticky Fingers Andy Warhol's zipper crop and the debut of the John Pasche tongue logo, pure pop art on the wall.
- 1972Exile on Main St. Robert Frank's raw photo collage, anchored by a 1950 shot of a Route 66 tattoo wall.
Comeback and Reinvention1978 to 1981
- 1978Some Girls Peter Corriston's die-cut sleeve stirred a legal storm and became an instant collector's piece.
- 1981Tattoo You A swirl of ink across a single face, fronting the band's last American number one.
The Modern Stones2016 to 2023
- 2016Blue and Lonesome A deep blue, all-blues covers album cut in three days that won a Grammy for the band.
- 2023Hackney Diamonds A shattered glass motif marks the comeback that ended an eighteen year wait for new material.
The Rolling Stones did not just soundtrack rock and roll, they gave it a face and a logo. This collection gathers museum-quality poster prints of the band's most defining album covers, from the blues-soaked late sixties to the diamond-hard present. Every sleeve here was a design statement in its own right, and each print restores that artwork at gallery scale.
The Golden Run (1969 to 1972)
The story starts with Let It Bleed, the 1969 record that bridged Brian Jones and Mick Taylor. Its cover, art directed by Robert Brownjohn, stacks a record, a clock, a tyre and a pizza under an absurdly gaudy cake. That cake was baked by Delia Smith, then an unknown cook years before television fame, who was simply told to make it look bright and cheap. It is one of rock's great visual jokes and a striking poster.
Two years later came Sticky Fingers, the first album on the band's own Rolling Stones Records label and the debut of the John Pasche tongue and lips logo. Andy Warhol conceived the cover, a close crop of a jeans-clad waist fitted with a real working zipper. Craig Braun engineered the packaging, and the zipper famously damaged the vinyl in transit until copies were shipped with the pull tugged down.
Then Exile on Main St., the sprawling 1972 double album recorded partly in a French villa basement. Robert Frank built the cover from a grid of black and white photographs, anchored by his 1950 shot of a tattooed sideshow wall on Route 66. Raw, crowded and human, it is a documentary collage that rewards a large format.
Comeback and Reinvention (1978 to 1981)
Some Girls marked Ronnie Wood's first full album and answered punk and disco head on. Peter Corriston designed the elaborate die-cut sleeve, illustrated by Hubert Kretzschmar, dropping the band's faces into a vintage Valmor wig advertisement alongside famous women. Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli and the Marilyn Monroe estate all objected, forcing a hurried redesign, which makes the original artwork a genuine collector's talking point.
Tattoo You followed in 1981, largely assembled from vault outtakes yet home to Start Me Up. Corriston returned with a striking cover of a face covered in swirling tattoos, and the record became the band's last American number one. Bold and graphic, it is one of the strongest single-image sleeves in the catalogue.
The Modern Stones (2016 to 2023)
Blue and Lonesome sent the band back to their beginning, an all-covers blues album cut in just three days in 2016. It won the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album, and its deep blue sleeve suits a quieter wall.
The run closes with Hackney Diamonds, the 2023 comeback that broke an eighteen year silence on original material and won Best Rock Album at the Grammys. Its shattered glass motif nods to London slang for the debris of a smashed window, a fitting emblem for a band still swinging.
Sizes and framing
Each poster prints on heavyweight archival paper in sizes from compact A4 up to statement A1, so you can match a desk nook or a full feature wall. Choose framed for a finished, ready to hang piece, or unframed if you prefer your own moulding. The museum-grade inks hold the deep blacks of Exile and the acid colours of Let It Bleed without fading.
Building a gallery wall
These covers were made to hang together. Run the golden trio of Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile in a row for a late-sixties statement, or mix eras to trace the band across five decades. Keep frames uniform and spacing tight for a grid, or stagger sizes for a looser salon look. However you arrange them, the tongue logo ties the whole wall to one unmistakable band, and each cover still holds its own as a single hero print.
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The Rolling Stones have outlasted trends, lineups and entire genres, and their album covers chart that endurance as clearly as the music. From Delia Smith's cake to Andy Warhol's zipper to a wall of Hackney glass, each sleeve froze a moment when the band redefined what a rock record could look like. Printing these covers at gallery scale honours the designers, photographers and illustrators who made them, people like Robert Brownjohn, Robert Frank and Peter Corriston, whose work is as collectable as the songs.
Whether you are a lifelong fan who wore out Exile on vinyl or a newcomer who found the band through Hackney Diamonds, a framed cover turns fandom into decor. Start with one signature piece, then let the collection grow across the eras. Hang Sticky Fingers where guests will see it, or build a quiet blues corner around Blue and Lonesome. Every print in this collection ships ready to display, on archival paper built to last as long as the band's legend.
Good to know about The Rolling Stones
- The gaudy cake on the cover of Let It Bleed was baked by Delia Smith, later a beloved television cook, who took the job through the photographer years before she became famous and was told to make it look bright and cheap.
- The tongue and lips logo was designed by John Pasche in 1970 while he was a student at the Royal College of Art in London, and he was paid just 50 pounds for the original artwork.
- Andy Warhol's working zipper on the Sticky Fingers sleeve damaged the record grooves during shipping, so copies were later sent out with the zipper pulled down to protect the vinyl inside.
- Sticky Fingers was the first album released on the band's own Rolling Stones Records label, and it was also the first record to carry the now-famous tongue logo.
- The front of Exile on Main St. is built around a 1950 photograph by Robert Frank of a tattooed sideshow wall on Route 66, reworked into a dense black and white collage.
- The original Some Girls cover had to be pulled and redesigned after Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli and the Marilyn Monroe estate objected to their faces being used without permission.
- Tattoo You, largely assembled from unused outtakes recorded years earlier, was the last Rolling Stones album to reach number one on the American charts.
- Blue and Lonesome, an all-blues covers album recorded in just three days, won the 2018 Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album, the band's first Grammy in more than two decades.