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This live album by The Animals with Eric Burdon was recorded on December 30th, 1963, at Club a’Gogo in the band’s hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne, as their first recording ever. It was first released by Wand Records in 1970, after The Animals rose to fame, and subsequently reissued under various titles and with various cover designs.

The original cover was designed by Dick Smith, featuring artwork that represents a naïve interpretation of band name and album title as a Garden Eden populated by creatures, mixing illustration with collage. The type is integrated into the image on two arcs, and set in Battleship, PLINC’s phototype revival of Modern Style by Peignot & Fils.

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The cover for the 2019 reissue by Replay has a loose reinterpretation of the original theme, cranking up on the psychedelia – complete with a trippy manual rendition of Battleship.

Vintage is the sixth album by Canned Heat, with material that was recorded already four years prior to its release in 1970. Maybe that’s why The Graffiteria opted for a cover design that interprets the band name in a quite literal way.

The Art Nouveau caps are from Battleship. This was Photo-Lettering’s name for their revival of a typeface that started life at the French foundry of Peignot & Fils. It’s shown in their 1897 specimen under the generic name Modern Style. The design is characterized by a mix of top-heavy and bottom-heavy glyphs, with H and N following the minuscule construction.

Battleship was first shown in 1962 in PLINC’s Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895–1905. The letter V is different from the French original. This could be a change introduced in the revival, but I think it’s more likely that the cover designers created the new glyph ad hoc: after all, the original V is a little tipsy, and doesn’t lend itself to tight letterspacing. The starting point apparently was an upside-down A. This way, both lines feature two letters with a double crossbar, making the setting more harmonious.

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The band name in Battleship also appears on the physical can shown in a vault on the back cover. Track list and credits were composed on an IBM Selectric, using its proportional typewriter adaptation of Univers.