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Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers-takes a deep dive into the history of iconic album cover art. Images and additional information on Rolling Stones albums may be found at https://iorr.org/albums/. Find album art images at discogs.com by searching the album title. Look for a new episode each Friday.
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Average audio length:
35 minutes
English
United States
194 episodes
since March 26, 2023
episodic
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What do you get when an album called Trout Mask Replica needs a cover and the art director goes to a fish market and buys a carp? You hollow out the head, convince Captain Beefheart to hold the stinking thing over his face for a couple of hours, add an enormous black hat and a blaz…
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William Basinski was trying to save some old tapes. Instead, he recorded them dying. Weeks later, he watched the World Trade Center disappear from the Brooklyn skyline and filmed the last hour of daylight over Manhattan. Somehow, the dying music and those haunting images found eac…
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Neil Young sitting on a hay bale at Broken Arrow Ranch, wearing a hat and playing an old Martin guitar. It sounds like the perfect cover for Harvest—and it almost was. Then Neil Young and his longtime art director Gary Burden had a falling out, the photograph disappeared from consi…
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What are the odds? Ronnie Van Zant said he wouldn't live to see thirty. Steve Gaines got spooked and walked away from the album cover photo shoot after only a handful of pictures. The album was called Street Survivors. The band stood surrounded by flames. Three days later, th…
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Did a Playboy Playmate get murdered during the recording of an Ohio Players album? Millions of people believed she did—and swore they could hear her dying scream buried in "Love Rollercoaster." The truth is almost as fascinating as the rumor. We'll separate fact from…
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David Bowie didn't just invent Ziggy Stardust—he invented an entire rock-and-roll mythology. But did you know Ziggy got his first name from a tailor's shop Bowie passed on the train? Or that the "Spiders from Mars" were inspired by real ballooning spiders that p…
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They cut two corners off a perfectly good album cover—and accidentally created one of the most ingenious packages in rock history. A failed movie in Morocco, a mysterious phrase scribbled in a notebook, psychedelic architecture, optical illusions, and a room that seems to open up …
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One college freshman passed on an $18 Woodstock ticket because he thought he'd be watching people make belts and apple butter. Another couple decided to go at the last minute, wrapped themselves in a discarded blanket, and accidentally became the face of an entire generation. …
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Was In Search of the Lost Chord really inspired by meditation and Eastern philosophy—or by acid trips with Timothy Leary? And how did a struggling artist, running out of time and ideas, suddenly discover the album cover by seeing multiple reflections of himself in a studio window?…
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What do an 18th-century French aristocrat, a scandalous painting of a woman on a swing, and Olivia Rodrigo have in common? More than you might imagine. One of the most famous paintings in Western art hides a story of lust, deception, and secret desire—and nearly 260 years later, it…
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