THE ONLY ROCK & ROLL BOOK YOU NEED – 1000 RECORD COVERS

, A must for those who share the author’s addiction to rock and roll – specifically its heyday of the 60s to 90s. To give an idea of the obsession harboured by Michael Ochs – a music archivist, disc jockey, journalist and ex-record publicity executive – in the mid-70s he established the Michael Ochs Archives, currently housing a million photographs and over 100,000 albums and singles. Over 100,000 albums and singles – music patently is his narcotic.

This special edition (celebrating 25 years of Taschen), 1000 Record Covers, portrays exactly this and presents a selection of the best rock album covers of this chosen era from his vast private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form. Like the music featured on the discs, covers address such issues as love, life, death, fashion and rebellion.

In these pages, Michael Ochs gives them the recognition he and so many others feel they merit.

Available from Taschen