Episode 58: Andy Warhol: Album Covers Take a Walk on the Wild Side - Part 2
Peel-away bananas. Working zippers. Andy Warhol elevated music album art to a new level. Building on our last episode, we talk about Andy’s influence on other "special" treatments of albums that—especially in our era of digital downloads—make having the real thing from bands like Bob Marley and The Pet Shop Boys (not to mention The Rolling Stones) worth the effort.
E X T R A S :
(Top to bottom): The original album artwork for Sticky Fingers from The Rolling Stones, how opening the zipper works along with the back album artwork
(Top to bottom): Craig Braun who helped implement the zipper idea on the album, Joe D’Allesandro and Glenn O’Brien who are allegedly the two models for the album artwork
(Top to bottom): The original jewel case for Very from The Pet Shop Boys (designed by Daniel Weil from Pentagram), Mountains of Madness from H.P. Zinker (designed by Stefan Sagmeister), Speaking in Tongues from The Talking Heads (designed by David Byrne with disc artwork from Robert Rauschenberg), Big Bambu from Cheech and Chong (designed by Craig Braun based on one of his Sticky Fingers ideas) and Catch a Fire from Bob Marley and the Wailers (designed by Rod Dyer and Bob Weiner)
Andy Warhol Timeline (Rebecca Lowrey)
Andy Warhol Biography
(MoMA, The Andy Warhol Museum, Wikipedia)
“Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film” by Ric Burns
- Part 1 (YouTube), Part 2 (YouTube)
- Craig Braun background (Wikipedia, NY Times article)
- “Interactive Album Covers” (Zembula article)