He has been a consulting editor on such books as the New York Times best-selling Hippie and The Clash by the Clash. 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. Read moreabout condition Price: US 14.21 Add to Watchlist Oops Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server. Wardle is the coauthor of The Virgin Internet Music Guide, and currently writes the blog A&Rmchair. 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. It is from music journalist and BBC Radio 4 presenter, Ben Wardle and best-selling editor, author and journalist Johnny Morgan. The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955-1995 by Morgan, Johnny Wardle, Ben Item Information Condition: Very GoodVery Good May have limited writing in cover pages. 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. 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. 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. 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.

The Art of the LP by Johnny Morgan