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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Hilarious or a nightmare? Exhibition displays the worst album covers ever

Album cover featuring five men's faces emerging from rabbit bodies including one emerging from a top hat
The cover of Roadstar by rock band Peter Rabbitt, one of the exhibits at the Worst Record Covers in the World show at Mansfield Museum. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“It is like the invasion of the bunny body snatchers,” says JT Thompson, the former lead singer of the 1970s US rock band Peter Rabbitt, as he looks at what is regarded as one of the world’s worst record covers.

The 1979 album Roadstar shows all five members of the California rock band with their faces morphed on to rabbit bodies, with Thompson emerging, like a terrible dream, smiling from a top hat.

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