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Published 11:37 IST, December 20th 2019

Harry Styles' 'Fine Line' album cover has a Beatles connection

Harry Styles' latest album shares a connection and call back to many of the famous bands from the '90s; here's what you need to know about it

Reported by: Jeet Anandani
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Harry Styles' album cover has a history behind it. The circular photograph of his cover album is a sign of music succession with a fisheye lens. In 1906, the popular inventor Robert Wood was in his lab with a bucket full of water, pinhole camera, mirrored glass with rays of light coming in. He wanted to see if he could create an image of the world from the perspective of a fish. He was successful with the experiment and invented a fisheye lens. Later on, in 1962, which is 60 years after Robert's invention Nikon came up with their own fisheye-Nikkor camera. After that, it became a pop culture phenomenon. Even the famous band The Beatles had used the fisheye lens camera to their photos during their TV performance. The Rolling Stones also used fisheye lens for their album cover in the '90s. Take a look at the photo of Harry Styles' album.

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Harry Styles' album Fine Line has a history behind it

Not only the album but also one of his songs Adore You's music video was connected with a story of a fish. The music video starts with Harry Styles shown as a small baby born with a super glowy smile, his smile was unique among all the other people. Harry Styles' smile also annoyed people. Furthermore, in the video, Harry Styles keeps a fish with him which he found on the seashore. The music video has over 12 million views on YouTube.

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08:25 IST, December 20th 2019