Enoch Light. Discotheque, 1964. Designed by George Giusti. Book design is not the only casualty in the rush toward digitization. Cover design in the music world has been pretty much relegated to a thumbnail image for a digital download or an image for a CD case but back in the heyday of the LP the cover design was a vital component to the accompanying music. Over at psd tuts+ Sonali Vora takes on a trip through 50…
Continue readingOn a recent reconnaissance mission for Book Patrol I met Brian Kehew, co-author of Recording the Beatles: The Studio Equipment and Techniques Used to Create Their Classic Albums, a massive eleven pounds of Beatlemania that takes us behind the scenes of the making of the Fab Four’s records. At the end of our interview, he dropped a joy bomb in my lap. Years of research and extensive interviews with the group’s former engineers and technicians…
Continue readingMick Jones, lead guitarist for The Clash, the vanguard group of the punk rock movement, opened the Rock-n-Roll Public Library in London late last week. As reported by the U.K. Guardian, the library is temporarily on display at London’s Chelsea Space gallery near Portobello Road, west London, not far from where Jones formed The Clash with Joe Stummer in 1976. The “guerrilla library” will include 10,000 items from the guitarist’s private collection, including Beatles memorabilia,…
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