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.
Podcasting since 2023 • 167 episodes
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
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Anarchy--Chumbawamba | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
A baby’s head emerging from a birth canal. That’s it. No skulls. No guns. No Satan. Just birth — the most ordinary, universal human event imaginable. And yet when Chumbawamba released Anarchy in 1994, record stores banned it, hid it un...
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Animals--Pink Floyd | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
A 40-foot inflatable pig. A power station. A missing police marksman. What could possibly go wrong?When Pink Floyd set out to photograph a flying pig over London’s Battersea Power Station, they didn’t plan on grounding flights a...
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Humble Pie--Humble Pie | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
A scandalous Victorian ink drawing by Aubrey Beardsley ends up on the cover of a 1970 blues-rock album by Humble Pie. How did an erotic illustration created for **Oscar Wilde’s Salomé—once deemed too grotesque for polite society—become...
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I'm the Problem--Morgan Wallen | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
He’s messy, talented, frustrating, and impossible to look away from—and somehow all of that ends up right there on the cover. In this episode, we dig into I’m the Problem, the Morgan Wallen album that turns a court date into a co...
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Legend--Poco | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Before he was Troy McClure, Lionel Hutz, or the guy who redesigned Pee-wee Herman, Phil Hartman was quietly shaping the sound of the 1970s—one album cover at a time. A single black horse, frozen mid-gallop, helped a struggling country-roc...
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