Adele's cover for 25 I think is the head-on shot like Face Value.
Artwork Plagiarism
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da-da-DAAAAH!
But her pose on 21 isn't like any of Phil's album covers. Maybe she wasn't yet a Phil fan.
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There is also Adele's 30 and PC's Hello, I Must Be Going!
Is there a face palm emoji here?
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If we want to talk about artwork plagiarism, Genesis related.....one of the drawings that Paul Whitehead did for Trrespass is a blatant copy of an existing work. I'll try to find the link.
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I'm not sure if I know how to upload a photo to this site....
Willy Pogany, Illustrations for TannhäuserWilly Pogany (1882-1955) was born Vilmos Andreas Pogány in Szeged, Hungary, but he left his home country in 1902 and never lived there a...benedante.blogspot.comHere's the original artwork from Willy Pogany
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Here's the Trespass album cover by Paul Whitehead
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What about the handwriting?
At least Phil managed to learn joined-up writing at school.
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I mean, it is not very common to feature on the cover of an album the name of the singer handwritten on the singer's own forehead.
Besides, there are more similarities: a close-up, cut-out the same way, black and white photo, defiant pose...
I know there has been other copycats, but this is the brazenest one.
What do you mean by 'defiant pose'? They are closeups of their faces.
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At least Phil managed to learn joined-up writing at school.
Ar least Mr Collins knows how to write.
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What do you mean by 'defiant pose'? They are closeups of their faces.
I meant a defiant look. Their faces were posing defiantly.
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Their faces were posing defiantly.
Except they're not.
You really believe FV was the first album cover to feature this sort of image so everything else is a copy of it. It wasn't.
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If we want to talk about artwork plagiarism, Genesis related.....one of the drawings that Paul Whitehead did for Trrespass is a blatant copy of an existing work. I'll try to find the link.
Nothing new about this, either, The Moody Blues cover artist Phil Travers based the cover of "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" on "Der Kristall" by Sulamith Wulfing, adding the back cover section to reflect the subject matter of the title. Another band has copied their cover, in a cartoonesque style. Can't remember who now. In an "about turn" manner, their "The Present" cover was based on a Maxfield Parrish artwork, later used in it's original form by a band called Dali's Car. No one was sued!
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Except they're not.
You really believe FV was the first album cover to feature this sort of image so everything else is a copy of it. It wasn't.
Sorry, I cannot recall any other album cover between Face Value (1981) and Finally Enough Love (2022) featuring this sort of image with handwriting on the singer's forehead. For me it is an obvious copycat. It is my perception. That's all.
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And artwork plagiarism is more common than one might think.
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FWIW I do think the Madonna cover has too many similarities for it be an accident. I don't think you can really call it plagiarism but it is clearly a pastiche (maybe even intended to be recognised as one)
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It's understandable that on a board for Genesis fans there'll be a tendency to think of the world revolving around the band, but that is what is behind the belief that the Madonna cover must surely be a conscious pastiche of FV. There have been many such close-up b&w cover shots before and since FV. The handwritten title isn't enough to propel it into definitely being some sort of deliberate copy.
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Better not throw the first stone on this one.
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There have been many such close-up b&w cover shots before and since FV.
There aren't many with handwriting on the forehead. None that I recall apart from Collins' and Madge's.
