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Author Archives: simon robinson
Billy The Kid
I can remember this sleeve design turning up on a Music For Pleasure catalogue given away in one of the local record shops, and taking one home to admire. And yet it wasn’t adorning a cover on one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Crate Digging
Tagged Billy The Kid, EMI, Geoff Hocking, MFP, Music For Pleasure, sleeve design
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rubber stamps and brown paper
Three more brown paper record bags which give us more glimpses of shopping for records in the past. The London Jazz Club on Bryanston Street, near Marble Arch, was a popular jazz venue in the fifties (referred to as the The … Continue reading
1977 and all that
I was getting a bit nostalgic the other day while playing some tracks from Talking Heads: 77 and wondering where those 40 years had gone! So I thought I would take a look at the sleeve and then perhaps follow … Continue reading
Posted in Sleeve Designers
Tagged 1977, 77, David Byrne, New wave, Sire Records, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth
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Taiwan In Rock
I’ve been getting a book devoted to the Deep Purple In Rock album back into print for the publishers. There is plenty about the cover art in there but tidying the files away I thought this curious Taiwanese version of … Continue reading
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Tagged album sleeve, bootleg, Deep Purple, Herb Alpert, In Rock, pirate, Taiwan, The Brothers Four
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Before and after
I put a gallery of 1950s Hollywood Records sleeves up not long ago. The label revamped some of their earlier covers and here is an example of the before or after treatment which I spotted in the archive. It doesn’t … Continue reading
House Hallucinates!
Sub-titled Pump Up London Volume One, this very groovy gatefold from 1988 turned up in a charity shop in town; has the acid house generation started getting shut of their vinyl already? I say already, but this album is not … Continue reading
Posted in Crate Digging, Sleeve Designers, The cool wall
Tagged Breakout, David Swindells, Graham Tunna, peter saville, sleeve design
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If I Am Dreaming
With Very Lynn’s 100th birthday making the news recently, I thought I would pull out one of her sleeves from the ST33 archive. I picked this one, If I Am Dreaming (“twelve tender romantic ballads”), as a great example of … Continue reading
Hooray for Hollywood
In The Mood (in Full Polyphonic Sound!), one of the better covers from the short lived budget label Hollywood, which ran for three or four years in the late Fifties in America. There is a new album gallery with another … Continue reading
Bottom of The Moor
I do like rescuing the old record shop bags and managed to put together a selection from my modest collection all from the long gone Virgin Records chain recently. Have a look and see if you can add any recollections … Continue reading
Accessorise
I have added an early twenties HMV speed tester advert from the 1920s to our menu of Hi-fi accessories (above). I’m used to stuff like this from the 1970s some of which are posted in this sub-menu, but didn’t know … Continue reading
