The postage stamp design featuring the cover of the album Division Bell by Pink Floyd. (Royal Mail/Reuters)Britain's Royal Mail has given its stamp of approval to 10 classic album covers.

Albums by Led Zeppelin, the Clash and the Rolling Stones are among those chosen to be the inspiration for a set of 10 new stamp designs issued Thursday. Ten seminal British albums were chosen by a team of music and design experts.

The covers include some of the most striking images created for album covers in the last 40 years, including the bent chrome pipe of Tubular Bells, the face statues of The Division Bell and the racing greyhounds of Parklife.

The albums featured on the stamps are:

• Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.
• The Division Bell by Pink Floyd.
• Parklife by Blur.
• Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin.
• London Calling by the Clash.
• Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones.
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie.
• Power, Corruption and Lies by New Order.
• Screamadelica by Primal Scream.
• A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay.

A stamp with the image from Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells. (Royal Mail/Reuters)Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who helped design the artwork for IV, spoke at the official launch of the stamps. The album cover shows a junk-shop painting of an old man carrying wood hanging on a dilapidated wall with peeling wallpaper.

"Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him," Page said. "That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."