8 Bizarre Reasons Famous Album Covers Were Rejected

6. Bon Jovi Don't Like Pink

Slippery When Wet was the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, and was released in 1986. The album spawned some of the band's biggest hits, including Livin' On A Prayer and You Give Love A Bad Name, but there was a time when the band's record label Mercury feared it wouldn't get released at all.

The original photograph submitted by the band featured a large-breasted woman being drenched with water from above. In a move that really should have surprised no-one at the time, Mercury executives believed prominent stores wouldn't stock the record because of its sexist cover art (more likely due to the fact that it's in any way sexual) and rejected it. Hilariously, when the album cover was pulled, Jon Bon Jovi himself claimed it was for a different reason entirely. The photograph the band had submitted did not feature the neon pink border €“ that was added by the label. Bon Jovi reportedly disliked this immensely, and called for the art to changed to the wet plastic bag we have today.