Two decades later, The Clash and photographer Pennie Smith felt there was still none more rock’n’roll, and nicked the idea for the epochal London Calling vinyl album cover. Click here for an ...
but in some cases album cover designers have themselves attracted a degree of fame thanks to their iconic design work. Whether helping to shape the vision of a label, like Reid Miles (Blue Note ...
The 12-inch 33rpm vinyl LP began to oust the 45rpm single in the later 1960s. Peter Blake’s endlessly imitated design for the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper ... heard of again’ applies to 90 per ...
Since their introduction in 1948 by engineer Peter Carl Goldmark, vinyl records have undergone a fascinating journey. The long-playing microgroove record revolutionized music listening, offering up to ...
But the real treasure isn’t the cardboard, or the vinyl itself necessarily. It’s the music, which sounds both rich and jaunty. Composed by Michael Gatt, the album feels like the soundtrack to ...