The albums that could have been: How the covers of classic records would have looked had the artists gone with their original title choice, according to AI

Would seminal Beatles classic Abbey Road have been so memorable if it had been called Everest - and featured George Harrison smoking a cigarette in front of a snow-covered volcano on the cover instead of the Fab Four crossing the street in London? That is one of several questions posed by digital experts today - who have re-imagined how some of the world's most iconic album covers might have looked if they had been released under their original working titles. The study, from digital agency WMG, has used image generation technology instead of the names by which they are now known the world over. An AI bot has predicted what iconic album covers might have looked like if world-famous artists including The Beatles and Queen had plumped for the original record names. Queen's studio album The Miracle was released in 1989 and was named after a song included on the album tracklist Using the working titles of some of music's most legendary albums, SEO and digital marketing experts WMG used AI tool Midjourney to visualise what their covers could have looked like.