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The original cover art for Riot featured a red, white, and black American flag with suns in place of the stars. No other text or titles appear on the cover, although Epic added a "Featuring the Hit Single 'Family Affair'" sticker to the LP for commercial viability and identification purposes. Family Stone A&R director Steve Paley took the photograph. Three of the custom flags were created: one for Sly, one for Epic Records, and one for Paley. The album was later reissued with a more commercial cover featuring a photograph of Sly in concert and the traditional album titles and text.
According to Sly, the album cover is meant to represent "people of all colors", as black is the absence of all color, white is the combination of all color, and red represents blood, which all humans have in common. Suns are used instead of stars because, according to Sly, "stars to me imply searching ...like you search for your star...Betsy Ross did the best she could with what she had. I thought I could do better."[1]