L’empresa de correus del Regne Unit, el Royal Mail, ha dedicat una sèrie de segells per a celebrar deu de les portades de LPs més icòniques dels últims 40 anys.Concretament han triat les portades de Let it Bleed (Rolling Stones, 1969), Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin, 1971), Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield, 1973), Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie, 1972), London Calling (The Clash, 1979), Power, Corruption and Lies (New Order, 1983), Screamadelica (Primal Scream, 1991), Division Bell (Pink Floyd, 1994), Parklife (Blur, 1994), i A Rush of Blood to the Head (Coldplay, 2002).
Suposo que es pot discutir la selecció ja que tothom tenim les nostres preferides, però no està mal per a representar l’art dels LPs, un art en camí a l’oblivió amb el canvi que estem experimentant, deixant els albums i CDs a banda per dedicar-nos a les descarregues i MP3s ...
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Avui escoltem a Ziggy Stardust del LP de Bowie, però 30 anys desprès.
The Royal Mail have produced a set of stamps celebrating ten of the best album covers of the last few decades. See above for the choice ... of course, any such list can be questioned as we all have our own favourites, but it’s not a bad one – in my opinion.
It’s a worthy idea to celebrate this kind of art as pretty soon it will be a thing of the past, alongside the cave paintings, as LPs and CDs disappear while we all download image-less tracks ... or not?
The Royal Mail have produced a set of stamps celebrating ten of the best album covers of the last few decades. See above for the choice ... of course, any such list can be questioned as we all have our own favourites, but it’s not a bad one – in my opinion.
It’s a worthy idea to celebrate this kind of art as pretty soon it will be a thing of the past, alongside the cave paintings, as LPs and CDs disappear while we all download image-less tracks ... or not?
More information here.
Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie, 30 years later.