Which album cover did Andy Warhol design for the Rolling Stones in 1971?

Andy Warhol designed the cover of the Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers.

The cover is famous for its close-up photograph of actor Joe Dallesandris wearing jeans, with a working zipper on the original sleeve. Warhol conceived the image and design, while photographer Billy Name is credited with the photography. The provocative presentation matched the album’s sexually charged reputation and became one of the best-known record covers of the 1970s.

Sticky Fingers was released by the Rolling Stones in April 1971. It was the band’s ninth British and eleventh American studio album, and it introduced the group’s lips-and-tongue logo, designed by John Pasche, on the back cover and inner materials rather than as the main front-cover image.

People sometimes attribute the entire visual identity to Warhol alone. His contribution was the concept and cover design, while several collaborators handled photography, production, and the distinctive zipper packaging. The original zipper could also damage stacked records, so later editions used a printed imitation.