The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 19551995

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Sexy provocative playful beautiful: from their earliest days LP covers have been objects of art and fascination. This celebration of album artistry presents more than 350 of the best covers and departs from the usual approach by organizing the images by visual theme. Many of us remember the iconic album-cover images that defined our collective and individual historiessuch as the smoldering pinup girl on the Cars Candy-O the plaintive baby following a dollar bill through water on Nirvanas Nevermind and Andy Warhols controversial zippered pants on the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers. From perennial classics to lesser-known gems here is the LP art that shook rattled and rolled us through musics early formative years. The thematic chapters include: Art: Ornette Coleman Empty Foxhole; Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks; Santana Abraxas Death: Otis Redding History of Otis Redding; Frank Zappa Hot Rats; Ice Cube Kill At Will; Metallica Master of Puppets Drugs: The Beatles Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band; the Monkees Head; Thelonious Monk Underground; Peter Tosh Bush Doctor Ego: Frank Sinatra No One Cares; Joni Mitchell Clouds; LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out; Bjrk Debut Escape: Johnny Cash Orange Blossom Special; Bob Dylan Freewheelin; Peter Gabriel 1 (Car) Identity: The Jackson 5 ABC; Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon; Blondie Parallel Lines Politics: Funkadelic America Eats Its Young; Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA Rock & Roll: Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano; Clash London Calling Sex: The Ohio Players Honey; Robert Palmer Double Fun; Pulp This Is Hardcore Real World: The Allman Brothers Brothers & Sisters; Bob Marley Catch a Fire; Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road