Every Beatles Album Cover Ranked Worst to Best
Is your favorite in the top spot?
A few ground rules: I’ve ranked the Beatles’ UK studio album releases (minus Yellow Submarine). So you won’t see The Blue or Red Album, The Butcher Cover, any of the Anthology covers, live/bootleg albums, nor the singles albums (1, Past Masters). I’ve left Yellow Submarine off the list because I don’t care what the internet says — it’s not a Beatles studio album.
So here they are, 12 to 1, all of them great in their own way:
12) Let It Be
Let It Be (both the album and the album cover) has always suffered from the same problem — the band never properly finished it.
Let It Be was released in May 1970, a month after Paul broke the news that the Beatles were no more. Ever since then, the album has been associated with the Beatles’ demise.
The cover’s black background hints at mourning. The quadrant layout seems to reinforce the idea that the band had ceased to be a band — they were now a collection of individuals…
