Anecdotes: The damned cover; behind the cover of "Born Again".
Steve Joule, who had contributed to some solo works by Ozzy Osbourne, created the cover of Born Again. When asked to design it, Joule feared that his relationship with Osbourne would become complicated by working with his former bandmates, so he sent them several poorly made sketches for the band to reject.
However, his work was liked, and he was offered a contract which he eventually accepted.
To create the cover, the artist, who at that time consumed quite a lot of drugs and alcohol, was inspired by the first page of an issue of the 1968 magazine Mind Alive.
The cover of the magazine featured a newborn baby crying, which Joule modified: he used psychedelic colors and added fangs, claws, and yellow horns to the child.
Gillan said that the cover seemed horrible to him, so much so that after receiving a box with twenty copies and seeing the cover, he vomited and threw the box out of the window. Iommi and Butler, however, were satisfied.
After the album's release, it was found that the cover was similar to that of the single "New Life" by Depeche Mode, released two years earlier; but there were no issues between the two bands.
The album cover is often included among the worst in history.
Classic Rock magazine wrote:
"The album is not as bad as they paint it, despite a horrible cover made in five minutes after a drunken meal."
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