head-scratching album covers

[OC Richard]

Sorry guys for my obtuse post... a head-scratcher in itself, I guess!

What if a Beatles album released while the Beatles were still an active group had, on its cover, a photo of a different group, such as The Rolling Stones? Such a thing would be a famous screw-up and become a valuable collectors' item.

Well, the first five album covers I showed in my post all have photos of the wrong artists, which immediately jumped out to me at first glance.

Specifically

#1 "The Gordon Highlanders" but the photo is of the Pipe Major of The Royal Scots
#2 "Military Bands" (which are all listed) but the photo appears to be of a civilian band
#3 "Pipes and Drums of the following regiments" (which are all listed) but the photo is of a member of either the Glasgow Police or Edinburgh Police pipe band
#4 "First Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders" but the photo appears to be of a civilian piper
#5 "The Gordon Highlanders" but the photo is of another Pipe Major of The Royal Scots

#6 "The English Bagpipes" while the photo shows somebody playing Scottish pipes. There are plenty of English bagpipes around: Northumbrian Smallpipes and the revived Cornish pipes and Lincolnshire pipes etc etc and I would expect an album entitled "English Bagpipes" to feature one of these English bagpipes, not the Scottish pipes. Likewise an album called "The Bagpipes of Bulgaria" would look odd if it featured Scottish pipes on the cover.

#7 this is one of the strangest album covers of all time... the album is a solo piping album by the well-known Scottish piper Seumas MacNeill, but the photo is of some pipe band wearing strange uniforms marching under palm trees.

#8 the midsection of the bass drone has been shoved into the chanter stock, and a practice chanter shoved into the bass midsection. The pipes were made in Pakistan BTW.