Gatefold
A gatefold is a type of fold used for advertising around a magazine or section, and for packaging of media such as in the phonographic industry.
LP covers
A gatefold cover or gatefold LP is a form of packaging for LP records which became popular in the mid-1960s. A gatefold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e. a 12½ inch, or 32.7 centimetre, square). The larger gatefold cover provided a means of including artwork, liner notes, and/or song lyrics which would otherwise not have fit on a standard record cover. It became famous as an extension of progressive rock, as the expansive, transient gatefolds by Roger Dean or H. R. Giger became associated with concept albums. Gatefold sleeves were also used when an album contained more than one record; for example, a double album would include one record in each half of the cover.
Starting in the early 1950s, RCA used gatefold packaging for some of their deluxe 45 RPM single releases, such as Nat King Cole's 8-song "Unforgettable" EP with two 45s, released in 1952. Gatefold packaging for LPs was popularized in the late 1950s by band leader and stereophonic studio recording pioneer Enoch Light, so he could fit liner notes he had written describing the sounds in each song on the album sleeve. Disagreement exists as to the identity of the first gatefold LP packaging used with a traditional 33⅓ LP.[1]
In recent years, the LP gatefold has been adapted to package CDs without a jewelcase.
Notable gatefold releases
The ten most notable examples of the gatefold sleeve:
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band[2]
- The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)[3]
- David Bowie – Aladdin Sane[4]
- Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde[5]
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland[6]
- Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II[7]
- Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV[8]
- Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon[9]
- Roxy Music – Roxy Music[10]
- The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico[11]
More examples
- Aerosmith – Live! Bootleg
- The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
- The Allman Brothers Band - Beginnings (The Allman Brothers Band album)
- The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East
- The Allman Brothers Band – Eat a Peach
- The Allman Brothers Band – Enlightened Rogues
- Bad Company - Bad Company
- Bad Company – Run with the Pack
- Bad Company – Desolation Angels
- Badfinger – No Dice
- The Band – The Band
- The Band – Rock of Ages
- The Beatles – Beatles for Sale
- The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
- The Beatles – Let It Be
- The Beatles – 1962–1966
- The Beatles – 1967–1970
- Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
- Black Sabbath – Paranoid
- Black Sabbath – Vol. 4
- Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
- Black Sabbath – Live Evil
- Blue Öyster Cult – On Your Feet or on Your Knees
- Blue Öyster Cult – Agents Of Fortune
- Blue Öyster Cult – Extraterrestrial Live
- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
- David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
- David Bowie – Blackstar
- Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (compilation album)
- Canned Heat – Living the Blues
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
- Eric Clapton – Slowhand
- Cream – Wheels of Fire
- Cream - Goodbye (Cream album)
- Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 4 Way Street
- Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
- Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn
- Deep Purple – Deep Purple
- Deep Purple – Fireball
- Deep Purple – Machine Head
- Deep Purple – Made in Japan
- Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are
- Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band
- Derek and the Dominos – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
- Donovan – Donovan's Greatest Hits
- The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
- The Doors – The Soft Parade
- The Doors – Morrison Hotel
- The Doors – Absolutely Live
- The Doors – Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
- Bob Dylan and The Band – The Basement Tapes
- The Eagles – Hotel California
- Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Works Volume 1
- The Fall – This Nation's Saving Grace
- The Fall – I Am Kurious Oranj
- Fleetwood Mac – Mr. Wonderful
- Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (album)
- Foghat – Foghat Live
- Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive!
- Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Grand Funk Railroad – Closer to Home
- Grand Funk Railroad – Live Album
- Grand Funk Railroad - Mark, Don & Mel: 1969–71
- Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
- Grateful Dead – Europe '72
- George Harrison – Living in the Material World
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love
- Humble Pie – Humble Pie
- Humble Pie – Performance Rockin' the Fillmore
- Humble Pie – Eat It
- Jethro Tull – Stand Up
- Jethro Tull – Aqualung
- Jethro Tull – Living in the Past
- Jethro Tull – A Passion Play
- Jethro Tull – Minstrel In The Gallery
- Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Brian Jones – Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka
- Carole King – Tapestry
- King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
- King Crimson - Islands (King Crimson album)
- The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
- The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
- The Kinks – The Kink Kronikles
- The Kinks – Everybody's in Show-Biz
- The Kinks – Preservation Act 2
- Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
- Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy
- Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same
- Led Zeppelin – Presence
- Led Zeppelin – Coda
- John Lennon – Some Time in New York City
- Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – One More from the Road
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gold & Platinum
- John Mayall – Ten Years Are Gone
- Paul McCartney – McCartney
- MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
- Steve Miller Band – Anthology
- The Moody Blues – On the Threshold of a Dream
- The Moody Blues – To Our Children's Children's Children
- The Moody Blues – A Question of Balance
- The Moody Blues – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- The Moody Blues – Seventh Sojourn
- The Moody Blues – This Is The Moody Blues
- The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
- The Mothers of Invention – We're Only in It for the Money
- Mötley Crüe – Shout at the Devil
- Nazareth – Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll
- Nazareth – 'Snaz
- Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo!
- Pink Floyd – Ummagumma
- Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
- Pink Floyd – Meddle
- Pink Floyd – Animals
- Pink Floyd – The Wall
- Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
- Public Image Ltd – Metal Box (Second Edition)
- Rainbow – Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
- Rainbow – Rainbow Rising
- Rainbow – The Best of Rainbow
- Rare Earth (band) - One World (Rare Earth album)
- Rare Earth - Rare Earth in Concert
- Lou Reed – Rock 'n' Roll Animal
- Renaissance (band) - Live at Carnegie Hall
- The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request
- The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
- The Rolling Stones – Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
- The Rolling Stones – Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
- The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
- The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
- The Rolling Stones – Goat's Head Soup
- The Rolling Stones – Black And Blue
- The Rolling Stones – Love You Live
- The Rolling Stones – Hot Rocks
- The Rolling Stones – More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – Join Hands
- The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
- Soundtrack album – Jesus Christ Superstar
- Bruce Springsteen – The River
- Steely Dan – Can't Buy a Thrill
- Steppenwolf – At Your Birthday Party
- Steppenwolf – Gold: Their Great Hits
- The Stooges – Fun House
- Ten Years After – Ssssh
- Ten Years After – Cricklewood Green
- Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music To The World
- Ten Years After – Recorded Live
- Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous
- Traffic – Mr. Fantasy
- Traffic – Welcome to the Canteen
- Traffic – On the Road
- Uriah Heep – Demons & Wizards
- Uriah Heep – The Magician's Birthday
- Uriah Heep – Uriah Heep Live
- Uriah Heep – Sweet Freedom
- Uriah Heep – Return to Fantasy
- U2 – The Joshua Tree
- The Who – Tommy
- The Who – Quadrophenia
- The Who – Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
- The Who – The Story of The Who
- The Who - Hooligans (album)
- Wings – Venus and Mars
- Wings – Wings over America
- Yes – The Yes Album
- Yes – Fragile
- Yes – Close to the Edge
- Yes – Yessongs
- Yes – Tales from Topographic Oceans
- Neil Young – After the Goldrush
- Neil Young – Harvest
- Neil Young – Decade
- ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
- ZZ Top – Tejas
In other publishing
Gatefold ads and highlights are often used as extensions of the covers of publications, folded either outside to overlap the cover or inside to unfold when the cover is opened. Similar folds include the split gatefold and the spadea.
See also
References
- ↑ "What was the first gatefold pop or rock LP?". Steve Hoffman Music Forums. 2003. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Victoria and Albert Museum. 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "The Beatles' White Album: design". The White Album Project. 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "Worker's Playtime". The Quietus. 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "'Blonde on Blonde' at 50: Celebrating Bob Dylan's Greatest Masterpiece". Rolling Stone. 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "The Story of the Banning of Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’ Album Cover". Ultimate Classic Rock. 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "Led Zeppelin Remasters Arrive At Last". Mojo. 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "Led Zeppelin IV: is this the greatest rock album ever made?". The Daily Telegraph. 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "My favourite album: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd". The Guardian. 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "Roxy Music: the band that broke the sound barrier". The Guardian. 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ "What's your least favourite album cover?". The Guardian. 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2017.