Deep Purple : Stormbringer : 1974
Siouxsie & The Banshees : Tinderbox : 1986
The artwork was based on a photograph of a tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, taken by Lucille Handberg on 8th July 1927
As the Deep Purple album featured a title track with lyrics about a mythical creature coming out of the clouds they added a flying horse and tweaked with the order of the tornado and the farm building.
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a Punk band who distanced themselves from everything that came before them although by 1986 they were morphing into more of a Goth type band.
However, it must have been a complete surprise to find out their album cover had already been used by a band from the old guard ‘ Deep Purple’.
In some ways, it shows how different music tribes (back then) had no real idea of what was going on in the genre over the road!
What other albums can you think of that look similar?
Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
The original photo
This particular photograph of a tornado was also used on the album cover of American jazz artist Miles Davis’ B*tches Brew, 4 years prior to Stormbringer’s release.