Queen - News of the World - 1977

The album's cover was a painting by American sci-fi artist
Frank Kelly Freas
. Drummer Roger Taylor had an issue of Astounding Science Fiction (October 1953) whose cover art depicted a giant intelligent robot holding the dead body of a
man
. The caption read: 'Please... fix it, Daddy?' to illustrate the story 'The Gulf Between' by Tom Godwin.

The painting inspired the band to contact Freas, who agreed to alter the painting for their album cover, by replacing the single dead man with the four 'dead' band members (with Taylor and Deacon falling to the ground, and Taylor only visible on the back cover)
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