Taschen-Verlag 1000 Record Covers Michael Ochs

Record covers are more than just profane protective covers, they are always also mirrors and expressions of their time. Like the music on a record, they also address our feelings - love, life, death, fashion or rebellion. Many people associate a certain cover with a very special situation or mood in their lives. Some have become at least as legendary as the music they represent, such as Andy Warhol's work for the Stones and Velvet Underground.

TASCHEN's 1000 Record Covers brings together a selection of the best record covers in rock history from the sixties to the nineties. The vinyl collector, DJ and journalist Michael Ochs opens his private collection and invites us on a journey into the world of memory. By the way, we experience the album cover as an independent graphic art form.

The author

Michael Ochs worked for Columbia, Shelter and ABC Records in the sixties and seventies, worked as a disc jockey, taught rock history and wrote for magazines such as Rock, Melody Maker, Cashbox and Crawdaddy. In the mid-seventies he founded the Michael Ochs Archives with millions of photographs and more than a hundred thousand record albums and singles.