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Art director Hugh Syme talks to UCR about the prog-rock trio's playful cover of the 1989 LP. How an Unused Jimi Hendrix Album Cover Led to Journey's Scarab How an Unused Jimi Hendrix Album Cover ...
Before the age of the internet and social media, it was all about album covers. And London-based art design studio Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic art, for classic rock acts such as Pink ...
Luckily, the 2023 remaster gave the album a much cleaner sound and used a simple photo of the band for cover art, ditching the stark coloring of the past. 3. Beck - Mellow Gold ...
S ome classic rock musicians aspired to tour the world and become the biggest superstars possible. Others enjoyed the art of creating music, taking every opportunity to play. Then there were those ...
These classic rock album covers were more or less hated by some fans and critics upon their release, ... Quite a few people weren’t happy about the album cover art for Black Sabbath’s Born Again.
Some classic rock albums have cover art so trippy, it could be pulp science-fiction book covers. (Like that Queen one.) Can you tell the difference ...
7. Ramones – Ramones (1976). The band from New York nailed it right from the get-go. The self-titled debut album is often described as the first punk rock album.
Yet more than any other album from the classic-rock era, this Rolling Stones double LP makes the best case for a band playing rock & roll as a legit art form. Not in some super-creative-studio ...
The Rush discography is full of beautiful album covers, and artist Hugh Syme has been there every step of the way. On May 1, he's getting his due with a new book, The Art of Rush: Serving a Life ...
In the new book “Rock Covers” (Taschen, $69.99), authors Robbie Busch and Jon Kirby show that it isn’t just rock ‘n’ roll music that made history—album-cover imagery helped too. In 550 ...