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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2011 at 08:02
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Islands is not available in gatefold to my knowledge - just in this format
 
 
Earthbound is not either
 
 
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Originally posted by wiki wiki wrote:

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The original United Kingdom and European cover depicts the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius and displays neither the name of the band nor the title. The original United States and Canadian album cover (as released by Atlantic Records) was a Peter Sinfield painting of off-white with coloured "islands". This was used as an internal gatefold sleeve in the UK. When the King Crimson catalogue was re-issued by EG, they standardised on the "Trifid Nebula" cover world-wide.

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Points: 378 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2011 at 08:57
I don't know about Islands UK, but Islands USA was gatefold, with the weird coloured islands on the cover.  All first four albums Gatefold.  Earthbound/Larks - no
Starless - gatefold
Red - not gatefold ever in USA and I doubt in UK.  MiniLP was made gatefold, but the new editions of Mini LP sleeves correct this flaw and return it to the single sleeve...

Discipline/Beat/Three were also gatefolds in the first japanese mini LP run but never gatefold on LP
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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2011 at 16:31
Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Islands is not available in gatefold to my knowledge - just in this format
 
 
Earthbound is not either
 
 
Oh ye of little faith - 
 
Originally posted by wiki wiki wrote:

Album cover

The original United Kingdom and European cover depicts the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius and displays neither the name of the band nor the title. The original United States and Canadian album cover (as released by Atlantic Records) was a Peter Sinfield painting of off-white with coloured "islands". This was used as an internal gatefold sleeve in the UK. When the King Crimson catalogue was re-issued by EG, they standardised on the "Trifid Nebula" cover world-wide.

outside:
 
Inside:
 
Tongue

ShockedShocked If one of those ever shows up on Ebay there's going to be a serious bidding war 
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Points: 91 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2011 at 17:19
As I was around when King Crimson released the albums...
ITCOTCK was a gatefold, as was ITWOP and LIZARD.
ISLANDS was as descibed - a non-gatefold. When it was re-released by EG (Crimson's management company), it became a gatefold, as illustrated in previous posts.
EARTHBOUND was non-gatefold, as was LARKS' TONGUES IN ASPIC.
STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK was gatefold
RED and USA were non-gatefold.
It's a safe bet that A YOUNG PERSONS GUIDE was gatefold, as it was a double 12" album.
I cannot comment on LP's from DISCIPLINE onwards, as I never saw them or bought them.
 
A side note - only ISLANDS and RED had images of the band members.
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