queen news of the world album art meaning
News of the World (album)
The album 's cover was a painting by American sci - fi artist Frank Kelly Freas . Taylor had an issue of Astounding Science Fiction ( October 1953 ) whose cover art depicted a giant intelligent robot holding the dead body of a man . The caption read : `` Please ... fix it , Daddy ? '' to illustrate the story `` The Gulf Between '' by Tom Godwin . The painting inspired the band to contact Freas , who agreed to alter the painting for their album cover , by replacing the single dead man with the four `` dead '' band members ( with Taylor and Deacon falling to the ground , and Taylor only visible on the back cover ) . The inner cover ( gatefold ) has the robot extending its hand to snatch up the petrified fleeing audience in the shattered auditorium where the corpses were removed . Freas said he was a classical music fan and did not know Queen , and only listened to the band after doing the cover `` because I thought I might just hate them , and it would ruin my ideas '' , but eventually liked their music . 
The album 's cover was a painting by American sci - fi artist Frank Kelly Freas . Taylor had an issue of Astounding Science Fiction ( October 1953 ) whose cover art depicted a giant intelligent robot holding the dead body of a man . The caption read : `` Please ... fix it , Daddy ? '' to illustrate the story `` The Gulf Between '' by Tom Godwin . The painting inspired the band to contact Freas , who agreed to alter the painting for their album cover , by replacing the single dead man with the four `` dead '' band members ( with Taylor and Deacon falling to the ground , and Taylor only visible on the back cover ) . The inner cover ( gatefold ) has the robot extending its hand to snatch up the petrified fleeing audience in the shattered auditorium where the corpses were removed . Freas said he was a classical music fan and did not know Queen , and only listened to the band after doing the cover `` because I thought I might just hate them , and it would ruin my ideas '' , but eventually liked their music .
The album's cover was a painting by American sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas. The painting inspired the band to contact Freas, who agreed to alter the painting for their album cover, by replacing the single dead man with the four ``dead'' band members.
The album 's cover was a painting by American sci - fi artist Frank Kelly Freas . The painting inspired the band to contact Freas , who agreed to alter the painting for their album cover , by replacing the single dead man with the four `` dead '' band members ( with Taylor and Deacon falling to the ground , and Taylor only visible on the back cover ) .