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being an early example of a multi-LP album to be released in a gatefold. Typically, double albums would feature one disc in each half of the cover, with larger albums either placing multiple LPs in one or both sleeves or using larger gatefolds. While some multi-LP releases (particularly those issued
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during the vinyl record's market dormancy from 1988 to 2007) would either package the discs in a simple sleeve or sandwich the records between two cards and shrink wrap, the prominence of gatefold for multi-LP albums led it to become the most common form of packaging for them.
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means a document folding method that uses two parallel folds to create six panels; the left and right panels are half the width of the center panels and fold inward to meet in the middle without overlapping.
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so he could fit liner notes he had written describing the sounds in each song on the album sleeve. Disagreement exists as to the identity of the first gatefold LP packaging used with a traditional 33⅓ LP.
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that became popular in the mid-1960s. A gatefold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e., a 12½-inch square). The larger gatefold cover provided a means of including artwork,
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Gatefold sleeves were also frequently used when an album contained more than one record, with Bob Dylan's 1966
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The left and right panel of a gate-folded sheet open like a double gate.
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A typographic workbook: a primer to history, techniques, and artistry
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used gatefold packaging for some of their deluxe 45 RPM
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was popularized in the late 1950s by band leader and
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Gatefold (album)

Queen
Made in Heaven
LP records
liner notes
progressive rock
Roger Dean
H. R. Giger
Hipgnosis
concept albums
double album
Blonde on Blonde

the Beatles' 1968 self-titled release
RCA
single
Nat King Cole
Unforgettable
EP
LPs
stereophonic
Enoch Light
CDs
jewel case

Album cover
Record sleeve
"What was the first gatefold pop or rock LP?"
Steve Hoffman

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