Extra Texture (Read All About It) - Cover Artwork

Cover Artwork

The album's eye-catching art design was done by Grammy Award-winner Roy Kohara. The vivid orange front cover featured a die-cut design of the album title, through which an inner-sleeve, blue-tinted picture of Harrison was visible; later vinyl editions presented the "EXTRA TEXTURE" title as simple blue text on an orange background, doing away with the expensive cut-out detail. In keeping with the album's title, the thin cardboard used for the cover was similar in texture to the "animal skin used on a football", by author Bruce Spizer's estimation. On the back cover, there was another Henry Grossman tour photo of Harrison, clearly enjoying himself on stage. The good humour is evident elsewhere in the album packaging, even if it was "too little, too late" to save the album critically.

Seen as a joke referencing the impending demise of The Beatles' record label, the iconic Apple logo was presented on Extra Texture as an eaten-away apple core. In addition, the blue inner sleeve photo of Harrison − "grinning like a Monty Python choirboy", by Robert Christgau's reckoning − was topped with the caption "OHNOTHIMAGEN" ("Oh not him again"), a self-deprecating take on his dwindling popularity in 1974–75. The album's full title is a pun on the slogan that street-corner paperboys would yell out to sell "extra" late-breaking news editions of their newspapers: "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"

As on Dark Horse, musicians are listed for each song (on the reverse side of the original inner sleeve), but this time with an additional list for those not appearing. The first of these is guitarist Danny Kortchmar, the fourth member of Attitudes; others include Derek Taylor, Eric Idle, Peter Sellers and Dark Horse Records executive Dino Airali.