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Cover Stories: 5 Decades of Album Art

English · Hardback

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Bill Smith and his studio have been designing record covers since 1976. In those 5 decades they have worked with over 200 bands and artists, creating hundreds of album covers, single bags and CD covers. Bill Smith Studio has worked with some of the world's best photographers, illustrators and painters on covers for among others, The Jam, The Cure, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, King Crimson and Mike Oldfield.


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Bill Smith was art director at Octopus Books in 1975 and became art director at Polydor Records and worked at Polydor from 1976-78. He left Polydor in '78 to set up Bill Smith Studio. He's designed more than 3000 covers for artists as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald and The Rolling Stones.


Summary

Bill Smith and his Studio have been designing record covers since 1976. Over 5 decades they have worked with over 200 bands and artists, creating hundreds of album covers. Included are some of the world's best photographers, illustrators and painters on covers for among others, the Jam, the Cure, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, the Stones and more

Product details

Authors Bill Smith
Publisher Global Book Sales
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 31.05.2022
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art
 
EAN 9781912733170
ISBN 978-1-912733-17-0
Pages 128
Dimensions (packing) 30.4 x 30.4 x 1.8 cm
Weight (packing) 1,438 g
 
Subjects Kunstgeschichte, Unterhaltungsmusik, Popmusik, Rock, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, ART / Popular Culture
 

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