Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers-takes a deep dive into the history of iconic album cover art. Images and additional information on Rolling Stones albums may be found at https://iorr.org/albums/. Find album art images at discogs.com by searching the album title. Look for a new episode each Friday.
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Latest Episodes
Trout Mask Replica--Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band | The Story Behind the Making of the Cover Art
What do you get when an album called Trout Mask Replica needs a cover and the art director goes to a fish market and buys a carp? You hollow out the head, convince Captain Beefheart to hold the stinking thing over his face for a couple of hours...
The Disintegration Loops--William Basinski | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
William Basinski was trying to save some old tapes. Instead, he recorded them dying. Weeks later, he watched the World Trade Center disappear from the Brooklyn skyline and filmed the last hour of daylight over Manhattan. Somehow, the dyin...
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Harvest--Neil Young | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Neil Young sitting on a hay bale at Broken Arrow Ranch, wearing a hat and playing an old Martin guitar. It sounds like the perfect cover for Harvest—and it almost was. Then Neil Young and his longtime art director Gary Burden had a fal...
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Street Survivors--Lynyrd Skynyrd | The Story Behind The Album Cover Art
What are the odds? Ronnie Van Zant said he wouldn't live to see thirty. Steve Gaines got spooked and walked away from the album cover photo shoot after only a handful of pictures. The album was called Street Survivors. The band s...
Honey--Ohio Players | The Story Behind The Album Cover Art
Did a Playboy Playmate get murdered during the recording of an Ohio Players album? Millions of people believed she did—and swore they could hear her dying scream buried in "Love Rollercoaster." The truth is almost as fascinating as the rumor. W...
