10 Rock Bands Who Were Forced To Change Their Album Covers

The eighth studio album by English progressive rock legends King Crimson, Discipline brought the band into the '80s in style, having missed the latter half of the '70s while on hiatus.

John Kyrk, who created the simple cover art for the album – a Celtic knot on a red background – had unwittingly ripped off a copyrighted design by George Bain. However, nobody at the label, the art department or in the band realised this until after the record's release, when it was eventually found to have been used without Bain's permission and had to be pulled.

Regardless of the fact that Discipline has one of the band's least notable album artworks (especially when held up against the likes of this), the band were unwilling to change their cover completely, and so opted to have the Celtic knot redrawn from scratch. The difference between the designs is so subtle, many fans wouldn't have noticed, but it is there. The style, density and symmetry of the knot are all different in the new version and the interlinking knots at the centre leave a greater space.