Before he became an instrument-smashing, windmilling rock star, Pete Townshend was a student at Ealing Art College in London, studying kinetic sculpture. Around the same time, he developed an ...

Hip-hop artists in particular have used album art to make a statement and contextualize their legacy, from Method Man channeling Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” for the cover of his 1994 “Dare ...

In the new book “Rock Covers” (Taschen, $69.99), authors Robbie Busch and Jon Kirby show that it isn’t just rock ‘n’ roll music that made history—album-cover imagery helped too. In 550 ...

The list of album cover archetypes goes on endlessly. There are good covers for bad albums, bad covers for good ones, ones that seem entirely separated from the music and some that can’t be separated ...

The quirkiest Hipgnosis album covers have typical art-school backstories, the testy Thorgerson being “a man who wouldn’t take ‘yes’ for an answer.” ...