{"id":17083,"date":"2015-07-30T01:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17083"},"modified":"2015-07-30T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:10:15","slug":"ralph-steadman-record-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/30\/ralph-steadman-record-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Steadman record covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Informal Jazz (1956) by Elmo Hope Sextet.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday’s post made me realise I’d never looked to see how many album covers Ralph Steadman might have designed or illustrated. A quick delve into Discogs revealed the following haul, a couple of which I own on CD. Steadman has worked in a wide range of media but I didn’t know his album work went back into the 1950s. The style of the early sleeves is markedly different to the angry, splattery creations that made his name, and without a signature you’d be unlikely to recognise the artist.<\/p>\n

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Conception (1956) by Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Zoot Sims.<\/em><\/p>\n

Artists known for their work outside the music world tend to have pre-existing art used on record sleeves but Steadman is unusual in creating so much cover art afresh. In light of this I’ve omitted the CD insert for a dramatisation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em> which repeats the drawing familiar from many of the paperback editions.<\/p>\n

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4 Altos (1957) by Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Back Country Suite For Piano, Bass And Drums (1959) by Mose Allison.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Happy Jack\/I’ve Been Away (1966) by The Who.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Streetnoise (1969) by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Phoenix Future (1975) by Paul Brett.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Remember Russia (1979) by Fischer-Z.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Miniatures (A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited by Morgan-Fisher) (1980) by Various Artists.<\/em><\/p>\n

A collection of one-minute songs, readings or musical works. Among the many artists there’s Steadman himself singing a song in his garden.<\/p>\n

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Road Island (1982) by Ambrosia.<\/em><\/p>\n

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John Arlott Talks Cricket (1982) by John Arlott.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Peter O’Sullevan Talks Turf (1983) by Peter O’Sullevan.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dowie (1983) by John Dowie.<\/em><\/p>\n

A video release on the Factory label.<\/p>\n

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Juvenile Delinquent (1984) by Alexis Korner.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A Well Kept Secret (1984) by Beaver Harris \u2013 Don Pullen 360\u00b0 Experience.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Beirut (1984) by Alexis Korner.
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A 7-inch single with fold-out sleeve (unfolded below).<\/p>\n

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The Last Nightingale (1984) by Various Artists.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Abuse: Artists For Animals (1986) by Various Artists.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Force Of Habit (1992) by Exodus.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Closed On Account Of Rabies: Poems And Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe (1997) by Various Artists.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Have I Offended Someone? (1997) by Frank Zappa.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Split 7 Inch (1997) by Remingtin\/Balm In Gilead.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Gonzo Tapes: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) by Hunter S. Thompson.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Slash (2010) by Slash.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved (2012) by Hunter S. Thompson.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Informal Jazz (1956) by Elmo Hope Sextet. Yesterday’s post made me realise I’d never looked to see how many album covers Ralph Steadman might have designed or illustrated. A quick delve into Discogs revealed the following haul, a couple of which I own on CD. Steadman has worked in a wide range of media but … Continue reading “Ralph Steadman record covers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,48,3],"tags":[1198,93,3586,111],"class_list":["post-17083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-illustrators","category-music","tag-brian-auger","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-hunter-s-thompson","tag-ralph-steadman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}