You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Even thought this book has little text, just looking at covers your brain starts to develop context: American propaganda, hippie movement, gender issues, racial context and you can see that the records shown here say a lot about the collector who owns them. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the puplicity departments of Columbia, Shelter, and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s. I do wish there could've been included some more covers, but I guess they have to stick to that number - and the book *is* pretty thick already.

Cada portada está acompañada de una breve reseña que proporciona información sobre el álbum, la banda y el artista. Would make a great gift, too, for people who didn't live through the era in which the LP cover was a deliberate art form unto itself. My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection.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. The text at the start of each each decade was really quite dull and bore little or no relation to the album covers that followed.

A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. El libro es una excelente fuente para los fanáticos del rock que buscan una visión general de las mejores portadas de álbumes de la era del rock clásico. from the 1960's; 17 from the 1970's; 5 from the 1980's and 90's) Many I had not even heard of either the album or the group.

There's not a lot to actually *read* in this 50-year survey of LP record-cover design, but the absence of text is more than compensated for by high-quality photo reproductions of a huge representative sample of what was a thriving art-form until the demise of vinyl records in the 1990s - and may yet become so again now the format has regained popularity.