Rock Covers. 45th Ed.

Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers.

Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks

-the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture.

Paying tribute to this art form,

Rock Covers

brings you a compilation of

more than 750 remarkable album covers

, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as

Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden

, and

Sonic Youth

are presented in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions.

This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with

insider interviews

with professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by

top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors

.