Anarchy--Chumbawamba | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art

Send us Fan MailA baby’s head emerging from a birth canal. That’s it. No skulls. No guns. No Satan. Just birth — the most ordinary, universal human event imaginable. And yet when Chumbawamba released Anarchy in 1994, record stores banned it, hid it under the counter, or sold it in plain sleeves.Why did a photograph of life beginning cause more panic than most heavy-metal nightmares? Who decided it was obscene? And what does a Swedish medical photographer, a radical British band, and a design collective named after a terrorist group have to do with it?Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at [email protected] or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NrDU39yE9CJcHU6YJT8jj?si=Y1JAE4LWTDmKEDE9QGlB2A&pi=ly2xwE-ERRu-2