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1000 Record Covers (Bibliotheca Universalis) by Michael Ochs (Hardcover)
Vinyl is back in style and in this selection of 1,000 of the most iconic record sleeves from the 1960s to 1990s, we recall why it’s the biggest and best music format ever. Seminal artwork, memorable cover sleeves, and long-lost classics all jostle for space in this virtual shelf of music history.
Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address issues including 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 for—take Andy Warhol’s covers for example, such as the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers from the ’60s to ’90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs’s enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study of the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an underappreciated art form.
Published by Taschen on March 15, 2014
“Vinyl revival? This book single-handedly champions the cause.”— Inpress
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 as Rock, Melody Maker, Cashbox, and Crawdaddy. He established the Michael Ochs Archives in the mid-70s. The archives currently house millions of photographs and over 100,000 albums and singles.
