Alan Aldridge (b.1943) was responsible for a great many album covers that defined the graphic style of the 1960s and 1970s. He was creative director of Penguin Books, for whom he designed over 100 innovative covers.

A charismatic personality with a fan base as strong as any rock star, Aldridge created exuberant, colourful designs, which conjured up grotesque monsters and gave form to universal fantasies, capturing the dreams and hallucinations of a generation.