themes of "boredom, family breakdown, drunken sex and a taste for violence". Packaging The album's cover artwork is more conventional than Costello's previous records; Gouldstone felt it was an attempt to convince listeners that the music inside "won't be too outlandish". Designed by Phil Smee, the photograph of Costello was taken by Nick Knight in Dublin shortly before a warm-up show in June 1983. The artist appears in a "pin-up picture", scratching his left ear as he dons a black cap, a dark collared-up coat and steel-frame glasses. Comparing his appearance to John Lennon, Hinton describes Costello's near-smile look as "quizzical". Sounds magazine's Edwin Pouncey found his appearance similar to a Beat Poet, and likened the Letraset border to the publications The Face and NME. Hot Press passingly described the cover as "dressed in the glamour of commerce with ugly Elvis gazing out all soft-focus and cute". Costello and the Attractions are present on the back sleeve looking off into the distance with their hands in their pockets. The sleeve was packaged with lyric sheet, albeit with juddered typeface; "The Invisible Man" title has the word 'invisible' faded. Images of the album's musicians appear sideways on the sheet: Afrodiziak are wearing turbans, the TKO Horns are dressed in suit and ties, while Baker, with his eyes closed, Hinton believes "has the pallor of a corpse". The album's original intended artwork, designed by Barney Bubbles, Hinton believes was "far less user-friendly". Examining the rejected piece in his 1999 biography of Costello, he writes: Release and promotion The album's release was briefly delayed while F-Beat Records changed worldwide distribution from Warner Bros. to RCA Records. In May 1983, Costello issued "Pills and Soap" as a single on his newly-created IMP label, an imprint of his F-Beat subsidiary Demon Records, under the pseudonym "The Imposter", after a song on Get Happy!! It was limited to 15,000 copies and was packaged in a plain sleeve and backed by an "extended version" of the A-side; Costello delivered copies to music editors himself. Discussing its rush-release, Costello stated that he "wanted it out quickly" and did not want to "wait the month or two that it would take to finalise legal matters". The single reached number 16 in the UK, becoming the artist's highest charting single in two years. It was supposedly deleted on the eve of the 1983 General Election, although Thomson and St. Michael