1000 Record Covers Author:Michael Ochs Not just a look at the art of record cover design — Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famou... more »s as the music they stand for?Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.
This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best ?60s to ?90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs?s enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an underappreciated art form.« less
If you're a fan of album art...i.e. the covers of those great old LP's, this book is for you. It contains about a thousand of the most interesting album covers...along with a narrative paragraph in English,German and French. I spent hours and hours just looking at the covers and seeing what I could read off them. A good companion to your collection of LP's.