THE Royal Mail has gone rock ’n’ roll with its own “top 10” – a set of stamps celebrating some of the best-known album covers from the past four decades.

From The Rolling Stones to Pink Floyd, The Clash to Coldplay, the Classic Album Covers series released on January 7 will boast “some of the greatest examples of album design”.

From the final list of 10, designs were produced which show each album cover.


1. Pink Floyd: Division Bell
2. Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
3. Blur: Parklife
4. New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies
5. The Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed
6. The Clash: London Calling
7. Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells
8. Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV
9. Primal Scream: Screamadelica
10. David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars