He has been a consulting editor on such books as the New York Times best-selling Hippie and The Clash by the Clash. MP3 players and I-Pods, the art of packaging music seems to be fading away. Johnny Morgan, coauthor of The Greatest Album Covers of All Time, is an editor, author, and journalist who has contributed to a variety of popular music titles. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the LP chart, this superb and visually.

This fascinating book forms a wonderful visual record of this popular art form, and is an essential read for. Wardle is the coauthor of The Virgin Internet Music Guide, and currently writes the blog A&Rmchair. by Barry Miles Grant Scott Johnny Morgan. He worked in A&R for both BMG Music and V2 Music, and has been an editor at several music-industry websites, such as AOL Radio and Clickmusic. Skip to main content Save 10 through Sunday. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 2.62.

Many of us remember the iconic album-cover images that defined our collective and individual histories – such as the smoldering pinup girl on the Cars’ Candy-O, the plaintive baby following a dollar bill through water on Nirvana’s Nevermind, and Andy Warhol’s controversial zippered pants on the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers.įrom perennial classics to lesser-known gems, here is the LP art that shook, rattled, and rolled us through music’s early formative years.īen Wardle is a music journalist who writes regularly for BBC Radio 4’s “Front Row,” The Guardian, and . Pop music writer Morgan (coauthor of The Art of the LP) presents more than 100 mesmerizing color photographs that trace the rise to fame of the charismatic. Disco: The Music, the Times, the Era by Johnny Morgan, Gloria Gaynor (Foreword by) - Alibris Buy Disco: The Music, the Times, the Era by Johnny Morgan, Gloria Gaynor (Foreword by) online at Alibris. This celebration of album artistry presents more than 350 of the best covers, and departs from the usual approach by organising the images by visual theme. Sexy, provocative, playful, beautiful: from their earliest days, LP covers have been objects of art and fascination.

The Art of the LP by Johnny Morgan