Album artwork for Yellow Fever by Fela Kuti

Knitting Factory Records is proud to reissue Fela Kuti's Yellow Fever on vinyl. Previously only available as part of the Box Set series, the reissue features original album artwork designed by Lemi Ghariokwu, who created the cover art for around half of Fela’s albums. Yellow Fever was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he released 24 albums in Nigeria alone. The title track is one of Fela’s defining masterpieces. Sung in Broken English, the language he adopted in order to make his words understood beyond Yoruba speakers, the lyrics rail against the fashion for skin-whitening creams.

Fela Kuti

Yellow Fever

Knitting Factory
Album artwork for Yellow Fever by Fela Kuti
LP

£22.99

Black
Includes download code
Released 14/04/2020Catalogue Number

KFR2024-1

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Fela Kuti

Yellow Fever

Knitting Factory
Album artwork for Yellow Fever by Fela Kuti
LP

£22.99

Black
Includes download code
Released 14/04/2020Catalogue Number

KFR2024-1

Learn more

Knitting Factory Records is proud to reissue Fela Kuti's Yellow Fever on vinyl. Previously only available as part of the Box Set series, the reissue features original album artwork designed by Lemi Ghariokwu, who created the cover art for around half of Fela’s albums. Yellow Fever was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he released 24 albums in Nigeria alone. The title track is one of Fela’s defining masterpieces. Sung in Broken English, the language he adopted in order to make his words understood beyond Yoruba speakers, the lyrics rail against the fashion for skin-whitening creams.