Cover Stories: Five Decades of Album Art - 1977-2019 (Signed copies)

Bill Smith

Hardcover | 30.5 x 30.5 x 1.6 | 128 pp

Red Planet Books | 2021 | 9781912733170

All copies signed by Bill Smith

Limited quantity available with special edition slipcase
With Slipcase £27.50
Without Slipcase £17.50

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

This book tells 70 cover stories, including contributions from the bands, the artists, photographers and painters involved. Cover Stories is a unique look at the magic behind the Album Cover, the photography, the art and images helping us to understand why we've come to treasure the 'sleeve' that supports the artist's vision and become works of art in themselves.