You’d think it was the most obvious idea in the world: a round sleeve for a round record. But until the Small Faces did it with their third album, 1968’s Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, no one had thought to do it before.
“It was Ronnie Lane’s idea to do a tobacco tin,” late Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan told Classic Rock in 2006. The idea was passed on to Immediate Records’ supremo Andrew Loog Oldham, who got Ogdens [a tobacco company based in Liverpool] to deliver all their original artwork. “When we saw 'Nut Brown Flake' [a variety produced by Ogdens] it was so perfect.”
