Do you recognize these iconic album covers?

We're revisiting legendary, well-known and immortal album covers. Of course, memory is deceptive and doesn't always deliver the name of the album and the band or singer they belong to. How many of the following album covers do you recognize?

One of the most legendary covers in the history of music. And it was released a long time ago: 1973.

The prism refracting the light, designed by George Hardie, represents three specific elements: the illumination of the band in concert, the lyrics of the album and the search for a simpler, cleaner cover. When the album book is opened, the spectrum of light continues through the fold-out to join another prism on the back cover. Roger Waters' idea is now design and music history.

We jump to 2009 to guess the cover of one of the most important albums of that year.

The British band's fifth album took the public and critics by storm. Its cover, more than recognisable, guarded great songs like 'Uprising', 'Undisclosed Desires', 'Resistance' or 'Exogenesis: Symphony'. They still have one of the best live shows of the 21st century, as well as one of the most beautiful covers.

Despite the cover, the album has little to do with fishing or the sea. Year of release? 1997.

The album that elevated The Prodigy to the status of a global phenomenon. More than 10 million copies sold, recognised singles such as 'Breathe' or 'Firestarter' but, above all, 'Smack my B**** Up', the single whose video clip scandalised half the world and fascinated the other half.

The cover, as with the album, is one of those that will never be forgotten. It was released in 1999 and literally took the album by storm. In fact, the following year, it took 9 of the 10 Grammys it was nominated for. Need more clues?

The Latin influence is clear on the cover of an album that knew how to combine Latin rhythms with the most modern pop-rock like few others. People like Lauryn Hill, Eagle Eye-Cherry, Cee-Lo and Eric Clapton contributed to this album being among the 100 best in history. Special mention must go to Rob Thomas, singer of 'Smooth', a single that spent 12 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and who lost his voice with emotion when filming the tremendous music video for the single.

Another example from the productive 1990s. Launched in 1998, this album is not from a solo singer but from a band.

It wasn't the Chicago band's best album but it left gems like 'Adore' or 'Perfect' and an elegant and hypnotic cover like few others.

For further clues, the album was released in 1979.

Peter Saville designed the cover and Stephen Morris chose the image. It shows a radio wave from the pulsar PSR B1919+21 obtained from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy.

As a hint, the album was released in late summer 1995.

One of the best albums in the glorious history of BritPop, from one of the best bands in the glorious history of BritPop. With 'Country House', the first single, 'Blur' would reach number one in the UK for the first time. Charmless Man', 'Stereotypes' and 'The Universal' would be the other three singles released on this album.

As simple as it is direct. This album arrived in 2006, when the band that released it was already established as one of the best grunge bands in history.

Pearl Jam's eighth album was a return to their roots and to the hardest and most extreme rock. Of course, the creative process was so hard that when the only thing left to decide was the cover, Mike McCready, the guitarist, jokingly suggested half an avocado and the art director liked the idea. Since then, it has been known as 'The Avocado Album'.

...is to remember it. Since its release in May 1997, it has been in the conversation for being one of the best albums ever. It has several generational anthems that transcended beyond mere music hits.

The British band's third album is on a par with The Beatles' 'Abbey Road' or Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon', according to critics, who have repeatedly called it a masterpiece of modern rock. As for the cover, it is a collage of images and text in Esperanto, created by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, who had already created several covers for Radiohead.

Let's go back to 2004 and one of the most elegant covers ever made in the 21st century.

Arcade Fire's debut album had everything: strength, personality, powerful singles like 'Neighbourhood' and 'Wake up', and even a cover for history, although they didn't know it yet. The Canadian band's indie rock elegance was reflected in a cover that hinted at what fans were going to find in their lyrics: a subject like death, treated from a more positive point of view than usual. That was the beginning of the Arcade Fire legend.

Psychedelia has always been a part of this Australian band that made their fans and the world fall in love with this original cover in 2015. That's quite a few clues, isn't it?

Robert Beatty, el conocido diseñador, se encargó de crear la portada del tercer álbum de Tame Impala. El propio diseñador confesaba en una entrevista a Vice que se inspiró en las portadas de los 70 porque encajaba de maravilla con el sonido del álbum.

The sleeve had a real zipper. It was one of the most scandalous album covers ever.

'Brown Sugar,' 'Wild Horses,' 'Can You Hear Me Knocking'... a legendary selection of this rock 'n' roll band's music. Designed by Andy Warhol, the original version of this album cover - a lithograph with a working metal zipper - is now stored in the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

We could give many clues to get it right but we'll just say that this album was released in 1997.

What do the items on the cover of Oasis' third album mean? Nothing. Michael Spencer Johns, the photographer responsible for the cover, said that it was Liam Gallagher who selected various items from the BBC warehouse that he thought would look good on the final picture. And, as it happens, he was right.

Yes, the cover of this album is half a human head and, far from what it may seem, it laid the foundations of a fruitful relationship between the creator of the composition and the band that released this album in 2002.

Solve Sundsbo had published this photo in 'Dazed & Confused' magazine. Chris Martin saw it and asked for permission for it to be the cover of the British band's second album. The idea was so well received that they decided that each single on the album would feature the severed head of a member of the band. And there were a few singles: 'Clocks', 'In My Place', 'The Scientist' and 'Politik', among others.

It is one of the 20 best-selling albums of the 1970s and the album that elevated its author to star status. Released in 1977, its songs are still played today.

Billy Joel's fifth album was produced by Phil Ramone and was the qualitative leap the singer needed. In fact, they continued working together for a good part of the 80s. Among the singles on 'The Stranger', there are legendary songs like 'Just the way you are', 'She's always a woman' and 'Movin' out'.

This compilation, released in 1998, was to collect the B-sides that hadn't made it onto previous albums. The cover is more than recognisable, isn't it?

'The Masterplan' was a compilation of discarded songs from previous albums. But of course, a discarded Oasis song can become a masterpiece, and that's what happened with this album, which ended up being a critical and sales success (over 5 million copies sold). I am the Walrus', 'Talk Tonight' and the essential 'The Masterplan' are some of the singles released from this album.

The debut album from the man who would go on to become one of the greatest rappers of all time was, oddly enough, the opposite of the rappers of 2004, when it was released. This author was going for a melodic, teddy bear soft style.

'All falls down' and 'I'll fly away' are two of the singles from Kanye West's successful debut. People like Jay-Z or John Legend collaborated with him, helping him to become a Hip-Hop reference since his debut. Of course, the creation of this album took him more than four years. A lot of work behind the success.

She is a legend of reality television at the beginning of the century. A pioneer in the talent show world who paved the way towards a dream that many artists have been pursuing since that distant 2003 when she was crowned with this launch.

Kelly Clarkson was the first winner of the popular music talent show 'American Idol' in 2002. The prize was a million-dollar contract with the production company RCA, with whom she released this successful album. On the cover, of course, it was the new star's turn to be featured. That's not to say that the album was bad. On the contrary, it has singles like 'A Moment Like This', 'Miss Independent' and 'Low' that were very well received.

250 weeks (5 years) this album spent on the Billboard 200, selling more than 13 million copies in the US alone. Not bad for a debut album, right?

Tracks like 'Alive', 'Even Flow' or 'Jeremy' made Pearl Jam achieve fame and relevance shortly after their release. Nirvana paved the way for grunge to become a trend, and Pearl Jam took advantage of it to show the world what they were good at. The cover, as guitarist Jeff Ament told Rolling Stone, sought to show the world the band's togetherness in the pursuit of success, a "kind of all for one".

When you have 10 successful albums behind you, you can afford this kind of different cover for the eleventh one. Besides, it was the crazy 60s where everything (or almost everything) was allowed on an artistic and cultural level.

The San Diego Zoo was to be the setting in which 'Pet Sounds', with the name already decided, would get its cover photo. In the end, they opted for a close-up shot, feeding the goats and inspired by a play, rather than something more exotic or elaborate. The result is still talking, more than half a century later.

It's hard to believe that an album as revolutionary as this cover opted for such a simple and traditionalist photo. Perhaps it was the perfect contrast that the author was looking for back in 1996.

'Endtroducing' is a key work in 21st century instrumental hip hop. This masterpiece by DJ Shadow was created almost entirely from samplings, which earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. In addition, he managed to turn a photo that in a family album would go unnoticed, into an icon and reference for record covers at the end of the century.

It is unusual to find a cover with such clear references to the album's lyrics. In fact, the monkey is a direct reference to one of the album's main singles, released in 1989.

Both Simon Larbalestier (photographer) and Vaughan Oliver (art designer) had access to the lyrics of 'Doolittle' before creating the cover and this made all the difference. On the cover, they both refer to 'Monkey gone to heaven'. In the booklet they kept this dynamic and filled it with abstract and surreal images to evoke other singles such as 'Gouge away', 'I bleed' or 'Walking with the crustaceans'.

Without leaving 1989, we go to what was the eighth album by a legendary band that seemed to be coming to an end and, curiously, this cover and the title of the album seemed to be clues that this was the case.

On one side, 'Disintegration'; on the other, Robert Smith alone on the cover. Was The Cure splitting up in 1989? More than 30 years later, we know it wasn't, but back then there was panic, just as the band was returning to its darker, gothic origins. Luckily, the singles from the album came and went ('Lullaby', 'Lovesong' and 'Pictures of you') and the rumours died down, but the cover was singled out by Cure fans as the one that scared them the most.

Chuck Loyola is the author of this beautiful painting that this legendary group chose as the cover of their first and successful album. It was 1978 and, although many people think that the album has the same name as the band, the truth is that this album has no name.

Led by the Knopfler brothers, an unknown band called Dire Straits paid out of pocket to record what was to be their first album. An album made up of their own demos, including the anthemic 'Sultans of Swing'. The rest is history. The album cover, too.

Few albums in the history of music will have had, as this one did, 12 different album covers. It happened in 1995, at the height of the Britpop boom, when this band still had a lot to say.

It seems only logical that if your star single is titled 'Common People', your cover should be full of common people, doing something common, like getting married. Over the years, 'Different Class' has gained relevance, becoming a cult album that has even been included in the 1001 albums to listen to before you die, compiled by the most relevant international critics.

An iconic band and an equally iconic album cover from 1969. No way you won't remember this one. The name is depicted on the cover!

Ringo Starr's famous vocal contribution to the Beatles' repertoire is the title song of this album. The soundtrack of the 1968 animated film also includes the classic 'All You Need is Love.'

It was 1998 and this band opted to use classics and appear on the cover themselves, highlighting the figure of their most famous singer and face. Can you guess?

Awful', 'Malibu' and, above all, 'Celebrity Skin' made this album Hole's most relevant. Courtney Love in a pure state and with clear grunge influences, with an aggressive and very enjoyable pop rock.

The Californian band's seventh album paid homage to their place of origin and introduced, in several of its songs, racy innuendoes that took audiences and critics by storm. Released in 1999, the album sold more than 16 million copies.

A cover that, nowadays, would be branded as trashy or vintage (depending on how you look at it), served to resurrect the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who were coming from a serious commercial flop. This cover is history because it is associated with several of the band's best singles: 'Otherside', 'Around the world', 'Scar Tissue' and 'Californicat***'.

This 1994 cover has a trick in that one of its members has had his head replaced by another one, from another photo, with Photoshop. Can you guess who and the title of the album?

Indeed, Rivers Cuomo (second from the left) asked for his head to be changed because he didn't like the way it looked in the photo. It was Weezer's first album and, another curiosity, is that on some vinyl versions, the band's feet are not cut off on the cover. And it looked like a simple cover, didn't it?

No, the album released in 2001 is tremendous, but the title is an invitation to forget it. And yet the album, as well as one of the songs, was dedicated to the son of the vocalist and recognisable face of the band.

Yes, Thom Yorke dedicated the entire album and the song 'Sail to the moon' to his son Noah. An album that was a far cry from the experimental rock of Radiohead in the 90s, but which thrilled their fans just the same. And what better way to end a list like this than with a little 'Amnesiac'?