Bob Seideman, photographer and artist, who is known primarily for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead was engaged to do the album cover and came up with the concept in which the band agreed. The basic idea behind this concept was: technology and purity.

Mick Milligan, a jeweller at the Royal College of Art and friend of Eric Clapton was commissioned to make the spaceship. He made it out of wood, chromed with silver.

The cover was nameless – only the wrapping paper told the buyer who the artist was and the name of the album. All ingredients for a spectacular release!

The release of the album, however, provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless pubescent girl holding in her hands a silver space ship. Some perceived the ship as a phallic symbol.

Rumours about the girl's relationship to the band fuelled the controversy; among them were that she was Ginger Baker's illegitimate daughter, and that she was a groupie kept as a slave by the band members. Actually, the young girl was a London suburbanite, who posed upon consent by her parents and for a fee.

Though initially banned in some countries, the original artwork was quite popular and collectible. It became available again later in the 1970s.

The inside gatefold depicts photo's of the band members, the lyrics and other trivia of the album release.

Due to all the rumours and of course the excellent music, the album sold more than half a million copies within the first month of its release and was a huge profit-making device for both Atlantic Records and for Clapton and Baker. Blind Faith sales were helping to stimulate demand for (earlier) 'Cream' albums.

In 2000 the entire album was remastered on double CD including alternates, out-takes, and studio rehearsal versions of the band during the early months of 1969.

Blind Faith were an English blues rock band, composed of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first super-groups, released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969.

They were stylistically similar to the bands in which Winwood, Baker and Clapton had most recently participated, Traffic and Cream. They helped to pioneer the genre of blues/rock fusion.

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