Rock 'N' Roll Artwork #1

This is my first post about art pieces. The subject will mostly cover album covers, show posters, etc.

I've many framed pieces upon my walls from some great artists from the beginning of Rock 'n' Roll to now. (none that command prices like these do!)
 Not a lot of words on these posts, just really great artwork.

Original art for "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"

One of my all-time favorite classic artists is Drew Struzan, who is nowadays most famous for hundreds of pieces for the Star Wars franchise, as well as Indiana Jones movies.

He got his start at the infamous Pacific Eye and Ear after a fateful trip to the unemployment office shortly after graduating college. Pacific Eye and Ear in the 70's, was THE place for state of the art album cover designs.

He is now the #1 most collected artist in the world.

Among the bands Struzan personally designed were albums by Black Sabbath, Roy Orbison, Iron Butterfly, The Beach Boys, Earth, Wind & Fire, & The Bee-Gee's.

Struzan also illustrated Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare", which Rolling Stone has declared one of the 100 best album covers of all time.

The original piece.

Back cover of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"

These are just a few of my favorite designs (and albums!)
For more info and examples of his work, as well as tons of killer Album covers, check out originalalbumcoverart.com That is where I found these examples.
 This is a quote from the website, about Struzan: "When Drew applied his talents to album covers, his abilities, coupled with the creative that I brought to the collaboration, produced a body of work the likes of which the music industry had never seen." I also recommend www.drewstruzan.com



Another cellebrated artist from the Metal world is Joe Petagno. Petagno is the designer of the Motorhead "Warpig", and the cover artist for nearly all of their albums.

Joe worked for another of the the companies who set the standards for album cover art, Hipgnosis. Joe met Lemmy while designing  space warriors for Hawkwind. He had previously done work for Led Zeppelin, Roy Harper, and Nazareth.

Do yourself a favor and pick up "Orgasmatron - The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno"
if you can find one. It's chock full of great pieces. A lot of dark, Satanic type works, along with an outstanding collection of Warpig paintings. Both used, and not. And be sure to check out www.petagno.dk