Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers-takes a deep dive into the history of iconic album cover art. Images and additional information on Rolling Stones albums may be found at https://iorr.org/albums/. Find album art images at discogs.com by searching the album title. Look for a new episode each Friday.
Send us a text We'd love to know your favorites-your favorite cover, favorite back story, and favorite all round package, but we have no idea how to hear from you. So, instead we tell you ours. Let us know what album covers you'd like us to cover at albumartthe coverstories@gmail.com.
Send us a text This is one of the most unique covers we have encountered on one of the most forgettable albums by a super group. Find out why it often lands on worst covers of all times lists. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text What a difference an apostrophe makes. Miles Davis and artist Mati Klarwein manage to produce music and cover art that are perfectly in sync with each other and the possibilites that surround us. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Mystery solved, the man on the cover is now known and the Balck Dog is real, even if it creator is not. This is the story of Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth studio album. Grab a copy and listen along with us. To see the black dog go to our Instagram site https://www.instagram.com/coverstories_charlie_and_adam/ We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com...
Send us a text If you'd like to be able to see images of the covers we cover here are a couple of suggestions.
Send us a text Who would be arrested first for a cover like this today? The record company? The band? The parents? The buyers? Ah, but this was the good old days of the extended Sixties and all those groups did quite well by this cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text They're back, our favorite Stones album cover duo Peter Corriston and Hubert Kretzschmar team up yet again to create a sticker porn album cover while Bill Smith gets done out of a cover by the ongoing Jagger-Richards feud. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/undercover-2.pdf
Send us a text Pain, suffering, vulnerability? The Holy Bible and the story behind this cover and it making has all of that and courage too. This is the story of the cover for The Holy Bible. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Born during the globally televised Live Aid concert, this album may reveal more about James Hetfield than he ever intended. This is the story of the cover for Metallica's Master of Puppets. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Building on a visual brand introduced with Fleetwood Mac , Rumours is the Renaissance Fair cover that helped convince 10 million people to buy this album in its first month. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Far out! Psychedelic! Outta sight, man! Looks great under a blacklight. This is the story of the cover for Disraeli Gears. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text No one on the planet outside of the Stones inner circle has held this album in their hands as this hot take on the album art drops. Grab a digital copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images keep an eye on iorr.org Album Art where we'll post after we have actually held and examined the album!
Send us a text Our friend Ken Orth is back to tell us about his band's album cover for NUJV or whatever the Beatles are spelling. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Learn more about Beatles covers from Ken's work in the archives of https://beatlefan.com/
Send us a text If there is a heaven then Charlie Watts on the cover of this album shows us what it is like. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/get-yer-ya-yas-out.pdf
Send us a text Carlos Santana saw it in a magazine and knew it had to be the cover of his next album. The Annunciation, better known to us as Anraxas, is one of the most enigmatic album covers of all time. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text The first 30000 covers sneaked thru then the cover changed to this iconic GNR logo. This is the story of the cover for Appetite For Destruction. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text The Doors stole a photo and named an upscale burger chain with this album. This is the story of the Morrison Hotel Cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Hey, Michael, where'd you get that suit? It was the biggest selling album ever according to some websites. This is the story of the Thriller cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Album art spreads to the stage to the merch to the adverts in the dawning digital age of Steel Wheels. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/steel-wheels.pdf
Send us a text A gifted musician hires an ex-NFL player to provide the art for the cover of I Want You. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text This is the story of Barry Godber's terrifying glimpse of his own future that became the cover for King Crimson's inaugural album. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text This is the story of the album art that did not match the names. How come? It's CS&N's first album released May 29, 1969. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text This is the story of the dramatic cover that launched the identity of Led Zeppelin on an unsuspecting world. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text This is the story of the album cover that serendipitously shows Young passing an old woman on the streets of New York. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text This is the story of the cover of what is, so far, the Stones last studio album of orignal material. It was Charlie Watts' last complete album. Listen and find out. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/a-bigger-bang.pdf
Send us a text Frank Zappa showed Neon Park a copy of Man's Life magazine and asked, "Can you do worse than this?" And he could. He did. This is the story of the Mothers' most iconic album cover, Weasles Ripped My Flesh. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text With this episode we introduce the first in a series of shorter stories. This one is the story of the album cover that sports Telemachus and his owner, Carole King. Tapestry was a culturally significant phenomenon with an intriguing cover story. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text Do you see the lion or the woman? This is the story of the cover of Santana's eponymous first album after his Woodstock explosion. It is fantatsic optical illusion and a classic album cover done by Lee Conklin. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
Send us a text This is the story of trendy cutting edge art cover that fails to hold up as anything other than the Stones worst cover ever. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/emotional-rescue.pdf
Send us a text This is the story of Voodoo Lounge, the Stones album cover that introduced the world to the bunnyman. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/voodoo-lounge.pdf
