The Who – My Generation album art
Futura Black with an usually wide A, on the cover of the first German pressing of The Who’s My Generation. The debut album by the English rock band was first released on 3 December 1965 by Brunswick Records in the United Kingdom, with an identical cover design. In the United States, it was released on 25 April 1966 by Decca Records as The Who Sings My Generation, with a different cover and a slightly altered track listing.
From Wikipedia:
The UK release featured a cover image of the band standing beside some oil drums and looking upward to the camera, with splashes of colour added by the red and blue stencilled letters of the title and a jacket patterned after the Union Flag thrown over John Entwistle's shoulders. Pete Townshend was wearing his school scarf. For the US release, this was replaced with a portrait of the band standing beneath Big Ben.
Text on the back cover is set in some version of Trade Gothic or similar, distinguished by an oddly narrow S.
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Thank you! Interesting fact about Futura Black and this legendary My Generation album by The Who! Bands in those days often made creative font choices, turning album covers into true graphic masterpiece, much more so than nowadays.