1000 Record Covers
TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition!
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 famous as the music they stand for—Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.
This special edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-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 under-appreciated art form.
About the author:
Michael Ochs developed an addiction to rock and roll in the early fifties. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the puplicity departments of Columbia, Shelter, and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s. He has also been a disc jockey, taught a rock-history course for UCLA and written for such magazines as Rock, Melody Maker, Cashbox, and Crawdaddy. Michael Ochs established the Michael Ochs Archives in the mid-70s. The archives currently house millions of photographs and over 100,000 albums and singles.
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1000 Record Covers
Ochs, Michael
Softcover, flaps, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 576 pages, $ 14.99 |
- Reviews (1 items)
Disappointing book as it chiefly concentrates on specific music genres rather than presenting a wider spectrum, which in turn leads to a greater diversity of covers. It's also a shame that it does not represent cover artwork of the 00s so far - music never stops!
Malene Birger, Denmark
Malene Birger, Denmark
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