Fruit Jamz! Album Covers Featuring Fruit (1950s-1980s)
Andy Warhol’s banana, which adorned the 1967 Velvet Underground & Nico record, is likely the first album that comes to mind when thinking of fruit inspired album covers. Note that the original...
View ArticleHammond Fever! Vintage Sexy Hammond Organ Album Covers
The electric organ came about in the 1930s; a few decades later, it found favor with Mad Men era bachelors and their swingin’ cocktail hour music… or just grocery store background music. Later in the...
View ArticleVintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers
I’ve done many an article on bad album covers over the past several years; you might say Flashbak is the internet’s home for awful vinyl. And you might think that the well would be running dry. I’m...
View ArticleJingle Fails: Awful Christmas Album Covers (Part 4)
It’s the holiday season – and that means another round of bad yuletide vinyl. Also, for previous Christmas editions, see vinyl see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Happy Holidays! Nothing says Christmas...
View ArticleVinyl Athletics: 25 Vintage Album Covers Featuring Sports
Over the years, we’ve provided all manner of record covers, from horrifically awful album art to majestic metal covers. We’ve also focused on themes: record covers featuring fruit, chairs, booze,...
View ArticleHeavenly Vinyl: 20 Christian Album Covers from the Bible Belt
We’ve covered gospel family album covers before; featuring their wonderful matching polyester outfits, and big, big hair. This time around, let’s have a look at Christian vinyl from the Bible Belt –...
View ArticleOn Tour With Bon Jovi In The 1980s
I first photographed Bon Jovi live in 1983, when they opened for ZZ TOP at Madison Square Garden. A couple of years later we met at my studio in New York City. I’d been hired by Polygram Records to...
View Article25 Wild & Wonderful Disco Records from Around the World
Disco always had a tendency toward the audacious and get “crazier than a fish with tits” as they say. So it should come as no surprise that there are more than a few odd and obscenely tacky disco...
View ArticleDance A-Go-Go: Getting Down on Vintage Vinyl
Record companies got a lot of mileage out of pictures of guys and girls (mostly girls) cutting a rug for their album covers – especially for those compilation LPs. When a picture of the actual...
View ArticleThe Beatles Abbey Road Photoshoot – August 8 1969
On August 8 1969, The Beatles were on a photoshoot for their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road. The album’s cover remains as recognisable as the music it holds. Photographer Iain Macmillan (20...
View ArticleHow I Shot The Cover To Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’
“A large record label needed an arresting album cover for one of their newly signed up and coming bands,” writs Kirk Weddle. “The concept was to create a visual statement by capturing an image of a...
View ArticleRod Stewart : The Third Gasoline Alley Jacket
I’m indebted to reader Dave Shaw, who has sent me the photograph above left of himself wearing a very rare rock fashion garment: one of the canvas and leather jackets made famous by Rod Stewart, who...
View ArticleMurder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers
You can judge a book by its cover, it just depends on the talents of the artist and their understanding of the book they are illustrating. Tom Adams (March 29, 1926 – December 9, 2019) was such an...
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