Jacket Madness

Album art from the 1960s to the 90s

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 forAndy Warhol’s covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.

This edition ofRecord Coverspresents a selection of thebest rock album covers of the 60s to 90sfrom music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochss enormous private collection. Botha trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form.

The author

Michael Ochs developed an addiction to rock and roll in the early 50s. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the publicity 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 asRock, Melody Maker, Cashbox,andCrawdaddy. He established the Michael Ochs Archives in the mid-70s. The archives currently house millions of photographs and over 100,000 albums and singles.

Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.7in., 576pages

ISBN: 9783836550581