So many r&b albums feature pictures of the singer with that same pose. It's not copying nor stealing, it's just a marketing strategy that many artists used at the time including Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass and Lionel Richie.

There's several covers with that Scott Baio & Michael Jackson pose, before and after those records. Here's a few of them: Teddy Pendergrass - It's Time For Love / Bunny Sigler - Keep Smilin' / Alice Dona - Vivre / Tino - Por Primera Vez / the inside gatefold of Lionel Richie's 1982 self-titled album / Adamo - Si J'Osais (this one is from the early 1960s)

Peter Frampton had a cover like Baio and Jackson before they did.

" Thriller:" -78 million copies and counting. "Scott Baio" : 117 copies . His mom bought 30 of them.

Dope video. I'm pretty sure that cover pose was common to do at the time, it's just that MJ's album became a global hit that people began to associate the pose with him.

I see very little similarity with the Huey Lewis cover and the other band.

On the Michael Jackson/Scott Biao cover. Lionel Richie has one in that pose as well. I actually thought that was who you were going to say to begin with.Richie is also wearing a white suit.

Thanks for the shoutout Frank. Dig this series! I've learned a lot!

The poses of Scott and Michael are really typical body-poses of the 80-ies!! They really are....No kidding! I"m from that era and it looks very familiar to me....👍🏻 Greetings from Germany......🙋🏻‍♀️

Deep Purple's "Burn" album from 1974 is heavily inspired by John Lee Hooker's 1961 album "Burnin'", not only in the fire theme but also the writing of the titles.

The Huey Lewis one is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. But some of these others are spot on homage.

These are not ripoffs, tributes, or coincidences at all - as a professional photographer I can state that these are simply "Normal" common poses used by most photographers for this type of photo session. The editors simply chose the photos in a line-up because they looked good and that's all. There is nothing more to it than that.

Love the channel Frank! You are very good!!! Video/Audio editing - the content - always look forward to your releases! ⚡️⚡️

Peter frampton im in you predates Scott baio and Jackson

Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"" (1981) and Madonna's "True Blue" (1986), both photographed by Herb Ritts, were similar.

Meh, the Thriller album cover copycat thing is a stretch. because ALOT of albums feature artists posed like that. Before Thriller and After Thriller. It was a common pose for album covers of that time.

i've always thought hardwired looked more like alice in chains' facelift.

Would be interesting to explore album covers that have no graphics on the front cover, just an image. Such as Led Zeppelin's "IV" and "Houses Of The Holy", Bob Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde", The Beatles "Abbey Road", the original "Blind Faith", etc.

I think Baio claiming his as the progeniter is silly. It's a look that became popular at the time. Jackson's cover, coming later, is still superior in layout, color and design. I sure that there were other albums even before Baio's that had the same basic blocking and position.

This is freaking awesome! I see this more as on influencing or inspiring the other, and in those cases at the end, they are clearly pointing directly to the other album cover. I think this is all cool however it's done. The Huey Lewis cover and the Dr Feel good cover don't really seem that similar to me. MAYBE a similar "vibe" but definitely not the same. The Lars thing, he could have very well had that experience that gave him the idea, and he could very well have had that other album somewhere in the back of his memory that helped connect the wedding photo to them doing the album that way, and not even be aware that he did that. Either way, while it is the same idea, it is done differently, and that is kind of the way art in general has always been. Art exists because as artists, we all borrow from each other, and get inspired by each other. Sometimes we know we are doing it, sometimes we don't realize it. If something is an exact ripoff, especially if it is the actual music itself, that tends to be cringy, but no matter what, all music as we know it, is inspired by and influenced by some other music. That is actually how it evolves.

Wow that was interesting. I can't wait to see more of these. Awesome video 😊👍

Wow, Thriller definitely took some inspiration for the cover. I've never been a huge fan of the Hot Space album, but I do like that cover. Great video Frank.

This series is so great bro

Frank - when it comes to Queen's "Hot Space" album, check out 1987's self-titled album by New Monkees - clearly the Hot Space cover was the inspiration, because except for the white borders and the titling its similarity is striking, right down to the why the photos of the band are stylized and positioned...just my two cents, great video as always!

I never even knew Scott Biao had made an Album.

I think the most obvious VH one is OU812 which copies Meet the Beatles

Here's another to check out. The Moody Blues - The Present and Dali's Car - The Waking Hour.

Weird but true: I own the Scott Baio album, but not Thriller. Bob Loblaw!

More great content. Keep it up! I thought 'Hardwired' was so terrible that I made my own cover for it. It is an homage to the famous Sally Mann 'Candy Cigarette' photo. Yeah, I had some spare time that day LOL. Cheers!

Loving this series.

Surprised that not included is the late photographer Herb Ritts using his cover photo of Madonna for True Blue as a “tribute” to his own previous photo of Olivia nearly five years earlier on the cover of Physical. (Incidentally, both are the best-selling studio albums of each of their careers, based on worldwide sales - although they each also had a mega selling greatest hits album and/or movie soundtrack that outsold them.)

I know the album covers are different, but this makes me think of Slayer’s live album Live Undead and how, in response, The Undead titled their live album Live Slayer. I always thought that was clever.

Love how you displayed a few of these albums behind you! I had never seen that Kiss Creatures of The Night album cover.

6:15 - These would just be coincidences cos it was a popular 60's - 70's portrait studio style. We as do other people we know have family and multi shot photo styles sone this way.

Even if a million ppl did it before Michael Jackson, I guessing his is the most memorable. 😏

Check out the final artwork showing Jackson in a red leather jacket. The original photo image has zipper tabs in a different position (open?). We moved the tabs on one of the first SciTex workstations just because we could.

On the topic of Danzig. LL Cool J’s album cover for Mama Said Knock You Out is the same as Danzig’s Lucifage album cover, both released in 1990, so I’m not sure who was first. I think the LL Cool J album was a few months before. I was probably the only kid who owned both.

Elvis Presley's first self titled album and The Clash's London Calling. :)

Lady Gagas album cover for "The cherry tree sessions" is a complete rip off of Missing Persons "Spring session M" album cover.

Wow Frank, who would of thought that the king of Pop - MJ, would take inspiration from Chachi in happy days. The mind boggles ?? Keep on spinnin !!

If I'm in MJ's camp, I may not even be aware that Scotty B even had an album out. I just found out today that he even released music.

The Metalica album cover looks more like the cover for Love's Forever Changes

The cover of hot space is very similar to the series of compilation albums ‘flyback’ from fly records in the early 70s featuring compilations of T rex, the move, and procol harum.

There’s always the ubiquitous peacock chair covers.

as for the Scott Baio/Michael Jackson cover, Peter Frampton struck that pose in the 70's

Dr Feelgood were tipped to be huge in the 70s but for some reason never took off as expected. My Dad used to rave over them and went to many of their early gigs. They are from SE Essex ,UK. There’s a documentary on a tour they did, here on KZfaq.

Its like this in the comic book industry. I guess that's the way it is in all the arts.

Scott Baio is nuts. Your so-called album cover looks nothing like Michael Jackson's Thriller...you dreaming

Just how many ways can someone pose for an album cover photo?

There are dozens of albums, with pictures "similar" to the Michael Jackson cover. That was the album cover every (wanna be) recording artist was putting out in the 80's.

In case anyone doesn't know, the industry uses the same graphic designers and photographers to do promotional materials for many different artists. Plus, every designer and photographer "borrows" hot trends of the current times they are in.

On your last entry don’t forget to include the Mother’s of Invention We’re Only In It For The Money

Another one. John Lennon & yoko ono - double fantasy. vS Suede - animal nitrate vs depeche mode - question of lust.

"Heaven And Hell" and "1984" have angels smoking cigarettes.

probably one of my favorites and the most direct I've seen is "Glad Music" by R. Stevie Moore (1986) and "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles (1964). the cover of Glad Music is a direct pastiche of A Hard Day's Night, and considering just how much influence R. Stevie took from the Beatles... it's no surprise lol

I always thought Hazel O'Connor's Cover Plus was a rip off of Bowie's Scary Monsters

You're pushing it!!!

Never thought I'd see Macabre here. Good stuff :)

Jeff Goldlum "hold my beer..."

love that Huey Lewis album, bought it way back when it came out in Germany, and incidentally just drove past the 2AM club today on the way home from Mt Tamalpais, fun coincidence, now I wanna check out that club! Too bad it's 1.5 hrs away from my home, clubbing and driving don't mix. But fun trivia!

Please check Physical by Olivia Newton John and the complete picture of Madonna’s True Blue covers. Both pictures were taken by Herb Ritts. And both have the exact same pose.

It took a lot of effort to clean those avocado halves!

James Taylor's Apple album was well before baio.

Scott Baio and Michael Jackson took it from Roger Voudouris. From the album "She's Too Cold (1981)".

I think that's the way it went back then, most of the pictures were the same back in the '80s

Re the Queen & Blur covers, I'd also put Talking Heads' Remain In Light with them. The cover for the single Cross-eyed And Painless, from that album, is also similar.

Probably all three. As someone who worked as a graphic artist, I have seen a lot of “serendipity.”

Nah, that was a common album cover pose in the 70s ,80s and 90s. MJ had no reason to copy friggin Scott Baio. LOL!!!😅😅😂😂😂

I wouldn’t necessarily call these rip offs, I would say they took inspiration from the original cover and tried to duplicate it

Nothing weird about it: that standard protocol to sell to the masses.

On the copy of The Doors album cover with Danzig & The Stooges, you could put the The Black Crowes first album too.

Both Scott Baio and John Phillips albums peaked at #181 that is kinda a story in itself.

My favorite album cover of all time would be Linkin Park's Meteora. I don't think that there are any other album similarities on that cover. Unique on its own!

Frank Zappa and the Mothers did their own “homage” to the Beatles ‘Sgt Peppers” with the album “In it for the money”

If an album cover has the faces of the band members on it, the album cover is unique in it's own right and CAN'T be a "rip off". Each person has their own distinctive look and unique face. There really are no 2 human beings who look exactly alike. They would have to use the face of exactly the SAME person found on another album cover to be considered a "rip-off" album cover.

I'm probably the only one who noticed this one: Aaliyah self titled album and HIM's Razorblade Romance. Came about near the same time.

I'm not an M.J fan. But fair dues. It's a common pose.

This was a fun video; loved the last album cover. You mispronounced, "Rammstein," btw

How many poses do you think photographers have?

You forgot Frank Zappa and the Mothers," we're only in it for the money" that was a great parody of Sgt Pepper.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers also did a parody of the Sgt. Pepper album cover with the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.

Another parody I have accountered is the Residents first album which parody’s the Beatles meat the Beatles album

Scott Bao taking credit for one of the best albums of all time.

Those of us who love Disco music know that Lipps, inc - "Pucker Up" cover looks identical to "Chanson" by Chanson

Bjork’s debut album cover and britney spears’ baby one more time. 😂😂😂

A lesser known one that kind of pops out to me is how "Lover's End" by Moon Safari looks a little like Rio by Duran Duran. Although, that one's a bit more of a stretch imo.

Madonna's Greatest Hits Vol #2 looks EXACTLY Like Kylie Minogue's Greatest Remix Hits Vol 1-4

The Huey Lewis one might be a stretch.

The cover style used in those three albums by the doors, Danzig and the stooges was also a little bit (not completely) present in Queen’s Queen II 😅

Also, I read pearl jam claimed the 🥑 album was simply "pop art" probably not dissimilar to the velvet underground and nico banana album.

Redman: Dare Iz a Darkside homaged Funkadelic: Maggot Brain

The four faced image of queen first seen in Bohemian Rhapsody videos and its singles cover (with dark background) was also almost similar to the Beates album cover "With The Beatles".

I don’t know what is more shocking to me the fact that the album cover for Thriller one of the most iconic albums and album covers of all time was not an original design or the fact that Scott Baio actually made an album. I’m going to go with option B.

That was just THE POSE much like the duck lips

Madonna repeated the pose on the cover of her iconic bestselling "True Blue" from Olivia Newton John's "Physical" album! Its photographer Herb Ritts recycled the same pose!

About the Metallica/Crowbar album cover, I think you could have put "The Miracle" (Queen) album cover too.

Good video. What about The Mothers of Invention and their, We're Only In It For The Money album. It's a parody of the Sgt Peppers cover also.

Lordi didn't try to disguise the fact that they were copying the KISS album style. Even the font for the titles is identical on both albums.

Manowar has at least 3 album covers that look like KISS - Destroyer. Venom - Black Metal is the exact duplicate ( but a close up shot) of the Baphomet drawing featured on the album cover of Witchfynde - Give Em Hell.

Theres no way Hueys cover looks anything like that other one, not even close.