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Aubrey Powell,Storm Thorgerson

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DK (September 23, 1999)

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Together with co-author Aubrey Powell, Storm Thorgerson founded the influential 1960s Hipgnosis design studio. He is the creative genius behind some of rock music's best-known and most compelling album covers, including several classic Pink Floyd sleeves

100 Best Album Covers book. Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell-the legendary graphic designers who founded Hipgnosis, the graphic-design firm that created dozens of the most memorable album covers of the rock-and-roll era-admit as much in their introduction to Best-of lists, much less books containing them, are inherently subjective in their analyses. More often beginning arguments than ending them, such documents illustrate both the compilers' individual tastes and the ultimate judgment calls used to make these decisions.

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View all 100 Best Album Covers pictures. Manufacturer: DK ADULT Release date: 1 November 1999 ISBN-10 : 078944951X ISBN-13: 9780789449511.

The stories behind the sleeves 100 Best Album Covers As chosen by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell Published in 1999

The stories behind the sleeves 100 Best Album Covers As chosen by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell Published in 1999.

DK's 100 Best Album Covers presents the cream of the cover crop, chosen by legendary designer Storm Thorgerson (the . Wisely, authors Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell have anticipated such widespread suspicion.

DK's 100 Best Album Covers presents the cream of the cover crop, chosen by legendary designer Storm Thorgerson (the creator of celebrated sleeves for Pink Floyd, among other artists) and presented in DK's brilliant lexicographic style. No other album cover compilation comes close to 100 Best Album Covers in showing - and telling - the "stories behind the sleeves. The ideal gift for music lovers of all ages.

Led Zeppelin album cover by Hipgnosis & Storm Thorgerson (Houses of the Holy, Photo: Aubrey Powell. Book AC/DC and make your event stand-out - we are a booking agent for AC/DC. HOUSES OF THE HOLY Led Zeppelin album cover photographed at Giant's Causeway. Storm Thorgerson, Designer of Iconic Album Covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon. Possibly the Greatest Rock Album of ALL TIMES. AC/DC are a legendary rock band, find out more about hiring AC/DC & our award-winning service. Night Prowler is the final track on AC/DC's album Highway to Hell.

Storm Thorgerson has worked with many bands over the years including 10cc, Anthrax, Catherine Wheel, Biffy Clyro .

Storm Thorgerson has worked with many bands over the years including 10cc, Anthrax, Catherine Wheel, Biffy Clyro, The Cranberries, Bruce Dickinson, Dream Theater, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Europe, Genesis, David Gilmour, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band, Muse, Offspring, Alan Parsons, Pendulum, Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, Yes and Paul Young. There are several publications based on the work of Storm Thorgerson including 100 Best Album Covers and Taken By Storm, The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson.

Caravan album cover by Hipgnosis & Storm Thorgerson (Cunning Stunts, From June 22 until September A&Gallery invites legendary album cover designer Storm Thorgerson to Fort Napoleon, Ostend. Lomography - Hipgnosis Founder Storm Thorgerson: The Man Behind the Album Covers of the. Hipgnosis was a British design group that made some of the best album covers in history. The group consisted of Storm Thogerson, Aubrey Powell & Peter Christopherson.

Other books have already praised the music inside the sleeves of these musical masterpiences, but "DK 100 Best Album Covers" focuses exclusively on 100 of the most striking and lasting images in popular music. Charting the changes and developments in album design since the 1960s, each of the world-famous covers has been specially chosen as a classic document of its time. From the 60s psychedelia of Pink Floyd to the Britpop of Blur, all the covers are reproduced in full colour. Detailed annotations explain the creative genius involved in their production and lively text provides anecdotes about the work of the designers from Andy Warhol to Peter Saville.

Nayatol

A brillant "100 Best Album Covers." People complain about the selection, but you can't please everyone. I got into rock art posters and now album covers, and the selection of the album covers is fine. It even includes BRUNO WALTER, Mahler - Symphony No. 9, on page 98.
Each entry is a potpourri of information, consisting of the album cover and various vignettes of the music artist and the art artists. Each entry has "Specification; Artiste (sic); Title; Design; Illustration; and Record Co.; along with a myriad of other information in various boxes, along with many photographs.
E.g. "CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, Doc At The Radar Station," pp. 52-53, has five of Don Van Vliet's (Captain Beefhart) paintings included in the two page spread: "Boat And Blue Bodagress," 1984; "Ghost Red Wire," 1967; "Bezoo, Bezoo," 1985; "Middle Flower," 1991; "Dreams In The Daytime Colored With Sunshine," 1995. You can find more of his art at: Don Van Vliet art (on Goggle).
Buy it and enjoy!

avanger

This is a fantastic gift for an album nerd (that's who we got it for)... he loved it. FABULOUS visually and with just enough in-depth info to inform the casual/intense scrutineer of album artwork and performer history.

Ramsey`s

Although the information about each album cover is intriguing, I'd be hard pressed to agree that these are the top 100 best (or creative) album covers of all time. As a graphic designer, I feel that some of covers are downright dull - definately not worthy of the title bestowed upon them.

ZloyGenii

Bought as a gift, the recepient was extremely happy to get this book and raves about all the great content. Very good buy.

Winn

I have owned this book for several years and I finally decided to write a review on it now. Why did I wait so long? Well, this is not the kind of book that you'll likely pick up right away and read all the way through. In fact, I constantly find myself going back to this book whenever I'm bored. It's fun, even after many years, to flip to an album cover and read all of the interesting details on the concept, artist, design, and history. The book is laid out in such a fashion that each time you look at a represented cover, you discover new details and gain a new perspective.
As to the question of whether or not these are truly the best 100 album covers of all time, I really can't say. In fact, in that regard I think the title is misleading because it forces the reader into thinking this is some type of a ranking or countdown. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. This is simply a really cool collection of 100 great album covers and their history. And, in that respect, this book really delivers.
Buy it today. I promise you, it will never get dull.

Gribandis

At least half of the featured album covers were familiar to me, and the book did contain interesting and informative snippets of information. However I was a bit dismayed that some album covers were overlooked, memorable covers by such popular bands as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Meatloaf, ELO, Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, and Iron Maiden (for their frightening Eddie character that graced so many of their albums).
As an art book, this book is a joke. I have many coffee-table and art books, and "100 Best Album Covers" is the only one I have that centers some featured graphics in the CENTER of the book. By that, I mean that a picture is centered in a two page spread, which runs the spine of the book right down the middle of the picture. All of the other art books I have put a graphic on one page so that you can see it (unless it's oversized). The pictures here aren't oversized and would easily fit on one page. It's hard to appreciate even a nifty album cover when you can only see the outer edges of it clearly. Far too many of the album covers are centered on the spine this way. The emphasis in this book is on the commentary it seems, and not so much the picture. Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" (an impressive work by the famous artist Giger) isn't quite as breathtaking when you have to pry and bend the book open and crack the spine to see it.
The publishers should revise this book and reissue it.

Steelrunner

There are so many albums out there, but I have to question some of the album covers that were chosen.
I think that part of the problem with this book is that it tries to catagorize the covers, which is the downfall. For some of the catagories, it seems that they are reaching on covers just so they have enough album covers to sustain that catagory.
I also think there were albums, too numerous to miss.
That all being said, the information was very interesting and it was good to see that one time period or genre was not dwelled upon.

100 Best Album Covers is a great book that details the stories behind some of the best album covers of all time. Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell formed the duo Hipgnosis and they designed most of Pink Floyd's albums and others as well, so their opinions on what makes a great album cover carry alot of weight. Some of the albums you'll recognize, some you've never seen or even heard of the artist, but they are all visually interesting and the tidbits of information about them are highly interesting.

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