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A fascinating survey of cover art (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.
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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Rather dated - a disappointing lack of what I would consider to be the greats. However, was not expensive.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just as the title suggests, this book is full of 1,000 record covers. Full color and in all their glory. Page after page of beautiful, quirky, innovative and just about any other adjective you can think of, album covers. Some will bring back memories, some will make you want to search the record stores so that you can own the album again or for the first time. I keep this book handy and find myself thumbing through it all the time. It's also a great conversation starter when it sits on the coffee table.
My only complaint is that it isn't full record size! That would have sent this review into 7 stars!
My only complaint is that it isn't full record size! That would have sent this review into 7 stars!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an interesting book but unfortunately this 2005 edition (ISBN: 3-8228-4085-8) is faulty as it omits all the 240 1950s covers included in the original 1996 printing ISBN: 3-8228-8595-9. I can vouch for that as I have both editions. It is a shame as the early sleeves are not often seen. This faulty edition should carry a sticker or disclaimer admitting that it omits the 50s and contains only 791 covers. A second-hand copy of the original black covered edition is preferable and well worth the hunt. Failing that this copy is still a good buy.
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1000 record covers
The book is very informative in terms of imagery of vinyl covers and is quite useful to have when only just starting to buy vinyls.
Published 2 months ago by Revivo
Who would want this lot?
I picked this up for 4 quid and while its beautifully presented I could think of the same amout of record sleeves which are better
Probably most could-its all down to... Read more
Probably most could-its all down to... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Richard
Missing the point slightly
As said before, this book doesn't really take its purpose seriously enough. Although it does include a lot of great and controversial album covers (Blind Faith, Lennon and Ono's... Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2008 by A. Wilks
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