Cardboard cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'Words for the Dying' recorded by John Cale. Cover photograph by Deborah Feingold. Cover design by Hugh Brown, Jeri Heiden and John Heiden. Issued by Land Records, Great Britain, 1989.

Cardboard cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'Words for the Dying', recorded by John Cale for Land Records. The cover design is a photograph of John Cale against a pale ground of hand-written text in blue ink, his name and the album title are printed centrally over this image.

Given by Lin Barkass, Opal Ltd.

The image used on the front cover of the record sleeve was also used on a promotional postcard, see E.1520-1990.

'LAND Records forms part of the Opal Group of Companies. Founded in 1984, Opal now represents Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, John Paul Jones, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, Roger Eno, Michael Brook, Laraaji, and visual artists Russell Mills and Andrew Logan . Opal not only encompasses many aspects of the music business such as music publishing, artist management, record production and its own label, Land Records, but is also involved worldwide in video and art installations, concert promotion and book publishing, as well as producing USSR/UK satellite links between Western and Soviet artists and musicians.'

Copy taken from a Land Records record sleeve, E.1566-1990.

E.1575-1990