Home / Music / Roger Dean designed Gentle Giant's Octopus before YesMusic linernotes album music gentle-giantRoger Dean designed Gentle Giant's Octopus before YesRoger Dean — later famous for those iconic Yes album covers — created the cover of Gentle Giant’s Octopus. It’s a stylized octopus in his signature organic style. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesGentle Giant's The Power and the Glory wasn't based on Graham Greene's novelGentle Giant's Octopus is a pun on eight tracks and a musical workOctopus brought medieval counterpoint to progressive rockGentle Giant's 'Proclamation' was sampled on Travis Scott's UtopiaGentle Giant's The Power and the Glory was inspired by Watergate and Cold War tensionsExploreSix Japanese Gardens is scored for percussion and electronicsMozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 is catalogued as K. 488Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is catalogued as K. 467The Keith Jarrett Standards Trio redefined the American songbook starting in 1983The King of Limbs is Radiohead's eighth studio albumPrevious Steve Hackett brought tapping and sweep-picking to Genesis's Selling England by the PoundNext Robert Fripp adds guitar to Van Der Graaf Generator's Pawn Hearts