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Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks--the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture. Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are gathered together in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions. This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with five professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors. No library descriptions found. |
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This is, shockingly (considering the title) a book of album covers. And it's got something for everyone, going back to the Fifties, and up to (I think) the Nineties. There's some fantastic covers, but, like any collection, some that I'm shocked aren't there, including some of the inventive ones from the Scorpions, Flash and the Pan, Boston, and a bunch more that I can't think of right now.
While the captions that accompany a bunch of them tend to be informative on the band, I was hoping for more stories about how the actual covers came about.
Still, overall, can't complain a bit about this book. It's fun. ( )