Elton in Request to Return Artwork

Ian Beck has requested to have the original picture from Elton Johns album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road because he was the one who designed it.

Beck was originally paid $688 for the artwork sleeve which adorned Elton’s 1973 album, but he now wants the original artwork returned to him, believing that Elton still has it.

Beck told the Daily Mail "I did the cover for Elton's label Rocket Records. Elton loved it and it was a very successful album... I think Elton kept the cover work... So if you are listening, Elton, I would like the Yellow Brick Road back, please, because I created it."

  A spokesman for Sir Elton tells the publication, "I have no idea whether Elton has it, but presumably if he does, he paid for it so it is his; £430 was a hell of a lot of money back then. A bit weird, isn't it, to ask for something back 38 years later?"