Street art developed in the seventies and one of the first protagonists in New York was Keith Haring (1958 – 1990). Haring’s graphics found their way onto record covers.​​​ Jean-Michel Basquiat, another New York street artist also designed record covers. This one from 1983 is the cover for Rammellzee vs. K-Rob’s “Beat Bop” 12”. A growing street culture evolved in Bristol in south west England. Artists like 3D, who would later emerge as Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, along

The record cover had become Fine Art. Even in England cover art was moving in a similar direction. Many musicians in sixties’ bands had a background in studies at art schools and this was reflected in album cover design, most famously in the design of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. John Lennon had asked his old Hamburg chum Klaus Voormann to design the cover for “Revolver”, The Beatles’ preceding album, and this design had resulted in a Grammy for best

The LP’s death knell has been heard several times over the past thirty or so years. First the arrival of the CD was thought to mean its demise and then the advent music streaming was felt to mean the end of music in physical formats. Somehow, though the LP has not only survived, but has grown in popularity, dur in no small part to its format. The 31.5 x 31.5 cm cover affords the music lover not only brilliant art but can be made into a gatefold or shaped. During the nineties,