The Art of the Album Cover

The Art of the Album CoverSigned by Richard Evans. The Art of the Album Cover celebrates seven decades of sleeve design from the early covers of Alex Steinweiss in the 1940s, through the Cool Jazz of the Fifties, the Pop and psychedelic revolution of the Sixties, the golden age of the album cover in the Seventies, the New Wave of the Eighties, the Britpop and Grunge of the Nineties, and the iPod generation of the Noughties. This is a beautifully laid out book beginning with

Antidotes lived up to the immense hype that preceded it and brought international success and acclaim for the Oxford band

This Archival Lambda Photograph print features the next shot on from the cover shot for Elvis Costello's 1978 album

The Bones tree in each set has been signed in pencil

Skipping Sadhu

a major part of this involved the character stepping outside the comic strip and taking a detached view

and then putting it back on again

our orphan

Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson

a wonderful record of a legendary event

This archival inkjet print celebrates the bicentenary of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution (AGBI)

the project widened to include significant designs for Led Zeppelin by other artists

With The Who's back catalogue now restored