A Pig's Tale: Roger Waters Traces the History of Rock's Most Famous Prop Roger Waters talks about Pink Floyd, Battersea Power Station, and the story behind possibly the most famous inflatable pig in musical history, "Algie", who stared on the cover of Pink Floyd's album "Animals" The first day was that beautiful sky, but the pig escaped. The rope broke and it drifted off, up into the flight path ... Read full entry

Cover Stories, Old and New It's not only the quality of music that can decline the longer a recording artist's career spans, but also the artwork on their album covers. Early career album covers of Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, U2, and Madonna, are compared with their latest releases, and yes, there's a definite pattern visible. Another reason is that, past a certain age - or perhaps a certain stage in ... Read full entry

Extending album art Clever album cover graphics showing what's happening outside the border of the cover image. This puts the cover of Oasis' What's The Story Morning Glory into an all too obvious context. Bigger than Abbey Road hey?

Vintage classical album cover graphics A very cool, and colourful, collection of vintage, old skool, album cover art.

Amazing Old Album Covers While perusing Mark Simonson's website earlier I spotted this post featuring some very old record (as in the vinyl variety) covers. Ever wondered why albums are called "albums"? At one time, a record album was literally an album that contained records. A few years ago, I ran across a handful of them in an antique store. They were all from around 1949 or so and ... Read full entry