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10 ALBUM COVERS WITH ARTIST PORTRAITS — FINAL SET
10 ALBUM COVERS WITH ARTIST PORTRAITS — FINAL SET
Welcome to the final part of this meandering series of album covers featuring what we will loosely call portraits of the band.
Once again we’ll begin in the 1960s, with an all-time favourite.
I love the way artist/designer Bernard Yeszin utilised the television image of The Monkees (Davey’s shirt, Mike’s beanie) to create an engaging less-is-more silhouette that transcends the flowery era of its…
10 ALBUM COVERS WITH ARTIST PORTRAITS
10 ALBUM COVERS WITH ARTIST PORTRAITS
Quintessentially Sixties in its technicolour glory, The Beatles 1968 animated film holds up very well due to the sheer vivacity of the artwork. Directed by George Dunning, Time magazine labelled it “a smash”, observing that the film “delighted adolescents and aesthetes alike”.
The album was released in January 1969, by which time it was somewhat out of step with The Beatles themselves. It is…