Print Production Ideas

As the editing of our music video deadline is drawing near, ideas on the print production are needed.

I want to look at similar folky artists to Brian, and see what album artwork they use, and possibly try and incorporate this into my album cover, not only that, but I want the album cover to have some meaning to the song, or it reflects the mood of the song. 

Yellow Submarine is one of the most famous
songs known, and is illustrated on the album artwork.

   
This is album work is from REM, as you can see. Despite 
REM being a mainly folk/pop band,
 this album cover doesn't reveal this.

These album covers are named after their best selling singles, this could be used as a starting point for my print production, as the song is called "information", I thought I could try and incorporate newspapers or sources of information into the album workout, 

This sort of idea would be suitable for my album cover I feel, on the spine of the newspaper the words "information" could be written with some other textual references.

Using Brian as part of the artwork could be a possibility, though I want to be sure that using Brian will work, as Brian has other commitments, such as family and work, and I don't want to draw him away from more important things.