Cover
The album is notable for having extremely innovative and impressive artwork from Ron Rafaelli of The Visual Thing Inc., which is featured in the book 100 Best Album Covers alongside better known examples such as Peter Blake's cover for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Robert Crumb's artwork for Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills. The book was part compiled by Storm Thorgerson who had himself designed many famous album covers such as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.
Rafaelli made the cover by photographing his model with strobe lights to make a silhouette of her against a background, which he could then overlay the design on. Hence, the album has a striking design of a woman made of stars leaping across the sky. The band's name is printed in extremely small letters at the top of the cover; with CDs being much smaller than LPs, this is almost unreadable.
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