Release and Packaging
Queens of Noise was released in January 1977 on three different formats: vinyl record, Musicassette, and Stereo 8 track tape. The cover features all five of The Runaways dressed in similar black shirts and pants, all "clinging to long, metallic shafts" in a design that Marianne Moro describes as a "stripper pole album cover theme". The Runaways are partially obscured by smoke in the photograph that was used on the front cover of the album, which according to Fox was taken "at the last moment before we all started choking". The back cover features a similar photograph that is posed differently and does not include any smoke, which Fox notes was originally intended to grace the front of the album, while the eventual front image was initially planned to be put on the back. After Fox suggested that the smoke-filled image would draw more attention on the front of the album, as well as noting the practical concern that it would not lend itself well to having the track listing and other notes printed over it, Mercury Records agreed and switched the covers.
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