Rock Covers
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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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | TASCHEN, Multilingual edition (23 Nov. 2022) |
|---|---|
| Language | Multilingual |
| Hardcover | 552 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 383654525X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3836545259 |
| Dimensions | 30.2 x 4.8 x 30.5 cm |
by Diane arthur
Definitely 5 star but so heavy but with the pain,
by Yorkshiresky
The compilers of this book set themselves a task which they couldn’t win. Thousands of albums have been released and it’s inevitable that personal favourites would be omitted. I looked in vain for ‘Dare’ by The Human League, ‘Down by The Jetty’ by Dr Feelgood, ‘Faust’ by Faust, ‘Lexicon of Love’ by ABC, ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions’ by Public Enemy….the list could go on.
I suppose this is inevitable as the brief of the book means that a lot of fine work in the jazz, pop, hip-hop and dance genres are overlooked. If Taschen are looking to cover these genres then I’m happy to act as curator 😉
The other slight failing of the book is by listing them alphabetically there’s no overriding narrative of the development of the album cover from cheesecake head shots in the 50s through the development of a more opaque graphic design in the late 60s as the album became the format of choice through to the revolution in design from punk and beyond. Ideally it would be great to have individual designers, Hipgnosis, Peter Saville, Vaughan Oliver etc showcased within rather than the pick and mix approach the book chooses.
However this shouldn’t detract from what’s here, a highly attractive (and very large) coffee table book, which demands to be dipped into. The excellent near album size reproductions which will soon have you grabbing the real thing from your shelves or heading to Spotify to stream it.
by G.A.S.
The cover of this supposedly new book has some unpleasant marks on it . They only became clear after I had opened the plastic protection
by rickgraves741b
I Purchased this item for my music guru of a friend and he absolutely loves it!!!!!
It has taken pride of place in his living room.
by David Parfect
For a music lover this is an ideal gift
by Tony B
I bought this as a birthday present for my mate Eddie.
He loves it!
by Amazon Customer
Amazing book for music and art lovera
by BEMP
This was a Christmas present for my son who used to have many of these albums, and was delighted with it.