January next year, the Royal Mail will be issuing a collection of stamps depicting 10 classic British album covers as shown below. The stamps will be uniquely shaped to accommodate a vinyl disc poking out of each record sleeve.

They are (clockwise from top left): Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell / Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head / Blur’s Parklife / New Order’s Power Corruption & Lies / the Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed / David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars / Primal Scream’s Screamadelica / Led Zeppelin’s IV / Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells / the Clash’s London Calling.

It’s a shame that the classic first album ‘Step One’ from Steps didn’t make it into the final cut …maybe next time.