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Rock Covers. 45th Ed.
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45th Edition Series
Dig into the 750 album covers that made rock history. Fact sheets, insider interviews, and lists from leading collectors take you on a musical memory tour. Covering everyone from Elvis to Bowie to The Sex Pistols, this complete volume includes bonus info on 250 records that became turning points for a band, an artist, or a genre.
Hardcover, 6.1 x 8.5 in., 2.50 lb, 512 pages
“The material is wonderful. The subject merits so thorough and authoritative an account and caption details are good.”
“A lovingly and illuminatingly annotated journey.”
“A full anthology of familiar – and wonderfully obscure – rock albums.”
Rock Covers. 45th Ed.
30Rock On
The most important record covers in rock history
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 presented 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 professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.
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 presented 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 professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.
The authors
Jonathan Kirby is a record collector and music writer. He served as an editor for Brooklyn-based music magazine Wax Poetics, has contributed in-depth articles for Oxford American and The Fader and is currently an A&R at Chicago’s famed archival label the Numero Group, where he also conceived the compilation Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound.
Robbie Busch aka “McBoing Boing” is an internationally recognized record collector and DJ. He has worn many artistic hats over the years: consulter and producer for numerous record labels, writer and photographer for magazines including Wax Poetics, Big Brother and XXL, comic book artist/writer and storyboard artist.
The editor
Julius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.
Rock Covers. 45th Ed.
Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.14 kg, 512 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-7643-7
Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)Download product images here
4.8
Awesome
November 5, 2023
Awesome book for vinyl record enthusiast . Great illustrations . Live itSchönes Buch aber etwas zu klein
October 15, 2023
Ich habe das Buch als Geschenk gekauft. Inhaltlich ist es in Ordnung und ist gut angekommen. Ich hätte mir aber annähernd ein A4 Format gewünscht und kein Taschenbuch indem die Abbildungen doch sehr klein sind. Deshalb ein Punkt Abzug.Bello, sarebbe stato più pratico con la copertina flessibile.
August 31, 2023
Vedi sopraQualität
July 14, 2023
Viele Infos, tolle Bilder.Uma forma diferente de apreciar a arte do rock
July 9, 2023
Capas icónicas ou discos icónicos, excelente oportunidade para apreciar música e a arte associada. Adorei a pequena entrevista inicial ao Vaughan Oliver, o criador das capas dos discos da 4AD e de álbuns míticos de bandas como os Pixies.Arrived on time
June 3, 2023
Quite extensive and covers a lot but not most.