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 So may I introduce to you, the act you've known for all these years, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But who are these people? You won't want to miss this story that our Beatles expert Ken Orth promises is but part one of a two part story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com...
Send us a text Rush-ay? Are you poutine me on? Learn the story of this Canadian prog rock band's pun-filled album art. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Radiohead created the first album cover suitable for an AI artist but they did that 25 years before AI could do that. Dunwood and Dr. Tchock created a chaotic masterpiece in OK Computer. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text This week we cover Jackson Browne, the male Carole King, and one of an endlessly talented stable of Laurel Canyon musicians. If you were a hippie you had a water bag and if by chance you didn't you had this water bag album. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Do you hyphenate After-Math or not? Go ahead and while you're at it put a comma in Paint It, Black. The US cover was the first that was not a traditional studio shot and it launched the Stones into the world of album cover art. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/black-and-blue.pdff We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com...
Send us a text If you missed San Francisco during the hippie era the next best thing may have been Telegraph Avenue on a green day. All of that is captured on this album cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Here it is, the pillar of punk rock music and the punk rock movement. The Ramones is that band you see on this cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Almost heaven, West Virginia, and it truly is. This is the story about the cover of Ghosts of West Virginia a quilt that tells the story of a hardworking underpaid tribe of people who powered much of our country's last century and a half--coal miners. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com...
Send us a text This cover features the most iconic wall in the history of rock music photography, Herb Green's hieroglyphic wall. It also includes the first mention of Jerry Garcia on an album cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Smells Like Teen Spirit is a song that launched several generations of lifelong fans of a band too shortlived. But the cover launched Nirvana into and then out of orbit. It is one of the best known covers of all time. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Nevermind this album spawned some nice Supertramp tunes, the real news is the cover predicted 911 21 years before it happened. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Joy Division's debut album used radio signals that could have been from little green men in a galaxy far far away for the cover art. Instead the image got a female physics student and a new PhD screwed and not in a good way. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text The Stones second greatest hits compilation includes the final shots of the five original Stones together for the last time. It was dedicated to Brian Jones who died soon after the cover shoot. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text School's out for summer, school's out forever, school's been blown to pieces. No one taps, touches and teases teen angst like Alice Cooper. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Once again we bleed on the cutting edge of album art relevance, this time with Queen B and her fabulously successful reclamation project that begins right here on the cover. By the way, Blair Caldwell took the photo. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Looking back, Smith said she had not intended making a big statement with the cover. Her fusion of poetry and rock and roll, along with this iconic photograph has frozen her in the minds of millions. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text This is a punk classic cover for the one record band that spawned the careers of Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious among others. It is the ransom note cover, colored one way for the UK and another for the US. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Nica was Monk's patron. She sacrificed her life for him. This, we believe, is his tribute cover to this French Resistance Freedom Fighter millionairess. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text What do you do to follow Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's album cover? The opposite. This is the story of the Beatles eponymous white cover album. Grab a copy and listen along with us to a special guest, Beatles expert, Ken Orth. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text This album spent 741 consecutive weeks on the Charts and its Hipgnosis designed cover, with an assist from writer/bassist Roger Waters had a significant influence on that run. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text How many know the story behind the photo on the cover of Rage's eponymous debut album? That a photo taken one day in 1963 became the cover of an album almost 30 years later is a story you'll want to hear. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Paul Simonon made rock and roll history at the New York Palladium in September 1979 when he expressed his rage by smashing his London Calling Precision Fender at precisely 9:50 PM. This is the story of one of rock's most famous album covers. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text blink 182 is the only band to ever violate the Geneva Convention and they did it with this album cover. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Is this a resurrection, an escape or an execution? Whatever your answer, it is undeniably one of the more striking album covers of this still young century. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Likely the best artist to ever do a Stones album cover got panned by the fans and loved pissing them off. Learn the story of the Kong-like ape on the cover of a greatest hits album by the silverbacks of rock and roll. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/grrr-2.pdf We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com...
Send us a text This is the story of the most famous vagrant in rock and roll. Is it really Ian Anderson? Did the artist get a fair shake? Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Prince grabbed an available piece of paper and made a list of the things he wanted to see on the cover of this album. A Purple Rain Tour carpenter who also videotaped the shows brought his list to life on this album. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text The first album was a joy, the second was painful, said Crosby, who also kinda sorta named this album. You'll want to hear about the dog. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Ever wonder who did the firsst album cover art? we did. Here's the story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
Send us a text Black and Blue created one of the Stones best controversies, this time it was the title and the way it was marketed. The cover, is in the opinions of many, one of the Stones' best. Grab a copy and listen along with us. For a more complete story or to see the images go to https://iorr.org/albums/black-and-blue.pdff We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com...
