Rock Covers

The compilers of this book set themselves a task which they couldn't win. Thousands of albums have been released and it's inevitable that personal favourites would be omitted. I looked in vain for 'Dare' by The Human League, 'Down by The Jetty' by Dr Feelgood, 'Faust' by Faust, 'Lexicon of Love' by ABC, 'It Takes a Nation of Millions' by Public Enemy....the list could go on.I suppose this is inevitable as the brief of the book means that a lot of fine work in the jazz, pop, hip-hop and dance genres are overlooked. If Taschen are looking to cover these genres then I'm happy to act as curator ;-)The other slight failing of the book is by listing them alphabetically there's no overriding narrative of the development of the album cover from cheesecake head shots in the 50s through the development of a more opaque graphic design in the late 60s as the album became the format of choice through to the revolution in design from punk and beyond. Ideally it would be great to have individual designers, Hipgnosis, Peter Saville, Vaughan Oliver etc showcased within rather than the pick and mix approach the book chooses.However this shouldn't detract from what's here, a highly attractive (and very large) coffee table book, which demands to be dipped into. The excellent near album size reproductions which will soon have you grabbing the real thing from your shelves or heading to Spotify to stream it.

I bought this as a birthday present for my mate Eddie.He loves it!

The cover of this supposedly new book has some unpleasant marks on it . They only became clear after I had opened the plastic protection

I Purchased this item for my music guru of a friend and he absolutely loves it!!!!!It has taken pride of place in his living room.

This was a Christmas present for my son who used to have many of these albums, and was delighted with it.

Amazing book for music and art lovera

Product was damaged both times it was ordered.

Surprised how many iconic sleeves missing