‘All You Need Is Me’ was the second release from Greatest Hits. The patterned paper on this was made of snakes, globes, eyes and stars.
Also released as two 7″s and a CD wallet.
See also Morrissey Greatest Hits and That’s How People Grow Up
Cover photography by Jake Walters.

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The back cover and inner bags were made to ape the Penguin Poets series with their Elizabeth Friedlander designed covers. The intent was to link Morrissey’s back catalogue with the classics of British poetry and literature, albeit with a modern spin. (Steve Hare has written a great article in August 2008’s Creative Review about these [...]

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The first single from Greatest Hits was the Jerry Finn (R.I.P.) produced ‘That’s How People Grow Up’. In keeping with the artwork for the album, a new endpaper directly relevant to the lyrics was designed for this in a powder blue.
The pattern features elements referenced by the lyrics such as scythes, hearts, hourglasses and tears.
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A bit of a story here. Stylorouge was invited by Parlophone to pitch for Paul McCartney’s thirteenth studio album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.
Whilst not involved with this project from the beginning—the creative on the ‘Fine Line’ single was done by James Cooper and Mark Higenbottam based around Brian Clarke’s line art—I took it [...]

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