![]() Here the theme is strikingly used on the cover of an album featuring anti-nuclear songs, Red Sails in the Sunset, by Midnight Oil. The title song was inspired by a passage in a well-known postholocaust science fiction novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, in which the new, mutant generation is praised as superior to normal humans.Ī nuclear cloud featured less prominently a year earlier on Grateful Dead. The most famous such rock record jacket art is from the Jefferson Airplane’s Crown of Creation, whose photo credits claim that this is a picture of the Hiroshima bomb (though it seems actually to be from a SeptemNevada test). The CD reissue has a more tasteful cover. The earliest record album to feature a mushroom cloud on the cover was not a rock album as you might suppose, but this Count Basie recording.
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