
Earth, Wind & Fire: "I Am" (album cover inside), 1979
Shusei Nagaoka (born in 1936) is a Japanese illustrator whose best known works were for music album cover art in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the artists he did covers for include, ELO, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Caldera, and Pure Prairie League.

The Sylvers: "New Horizons" (album cover), 1977

Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind

Conceive



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