The excellent cover to Steve Holden's Somebody to Love (about a transgender funeral parlour worker), published in October 2010...
The sleeve to a Simian Mobile Disco single released in November 2010...
Given production lag-times, it seems impossible for the record sleeve to be a copy of the book cover: just a weird coincidence.
UPDATE: Wise reader Emily points me to this interview with book designer Clare Skeats where she talks about both covers and the inspirations behind them.
I'd say it was the other way round. There's a post on The Casual Optimist where Clare Skeats, designer of Somebody to Love, talks about her "adaptation" of the album cover...
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Thank you, Emily: I'll add that to the post!
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