![]() ![]() Gray also designed each of the member’s faces in the artwork for the inner sleeves of the album in a similar style. Mercury featured with some cats and a banana (again), Deacon in a clown costume with a rabbit and a tortoise, May with a mime-mask coming off his face and with snakes in place of hair (like Medusa), and Taylor in a shirt with stars and stripes and suns and with a halo of sun rays behind his head. For the back cover of Innuendo, Gray used a version of Grandville’s drawing, the centrepiece of which was a lion with a brass tuba in place of its head. Grandville was known for his unique representations of faces of animals and objects alike, with human expressions. Gray was also the photographer for Queen’s final concert on stage with Freddie Mercury.įor Innuendo, Gray’s designs were truly commendable. Gray joined the music industry in the early ’80s and some of his most recognised works – apart from Queen’s – had been with artists such as Kate Bush, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Live Aid, and so on. Richard Gray was the photographer and designer for Queen for almost 26 years and he came up with multiple album covers for the band as well as photographed them on stage. Grandville’s original featured a meteorite in the form of the Cross of Legion of Honour, that the band and Gray decided to bring their own surrealist twist to. Apart from that, and we’re sure you would notice if you see the original drawing, there is the somewhat strange presence of the banana in the picture. Richard Gray, the artist behind designing the album cover, incorporated colours into the picture to make it stand out more. While most of Grandville’s piece of ‘Juggler of Universes’ stayed the same on the Innuendo cover, the art was black and white. ![]()
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