CLASSIC ORIGINAL ROCK AND POP POSTERS

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ELVIS COSTELLO - SPIKE, THE BELOVED ENTERTAINER, 1989

Original in-store U.S. promo card stock poster.
Photograph by Brian Griffin.
12.5"x12.5"

Brian Griffin, the wonderfully versatile and surrealistic photographer of business tycoons and musicians alike, shot this cover in his studio in London studio using a 10" x 8" camera. Costello had conceived the idea.

£55.00

THE STONE ROSES - THE STONE ROSES, 1989

Original in-store U.S. promo card stock poster.
Art by John Squire
12.5"x12.5"

The painting 'Bye Bye Badman', with the addition of three lemons and the title - became the the cover of The Stone Roses' epochal first album. Squire has said "It was based on the colour of the water and the foam at the Giant's Causeway."


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THE ROLLING STONES - GOAT'S HEAD SOUP, 1973


Original promo poster.
Photograph by David Bailey.
12.5"x12.5"

Still one of the funniest and most bizarre album covers ever. Bailey had previously taken the cover shots for some of their earliest albums, 'The Rolling Stones' '12x5' and 'Rolling Stones Now!'


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SUPERTRAMP - BREAKFAST IN AMERICA, 1979


Original in-store card stock circular promo display.
36"x36"

Very scarce original in-store circular wall display display, with small hole at top for hanging up. Beautiful colours



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YES - YESSONGS, 1973.

Art by Roger Dean.

Published by Big O Posters.
24"x33"

The album 'Yessongs' was released on three discs in a unique fold-out package featuring four narrative artwork panels by Roger Dean, continuing the theme that began with 'Fragile' in 1971. "Escape", showing the craft leading the planetary fragment through space, is the first panel.

£250.00 conservation framed.

YES - YES YEARS, 1991.

Art by Roger Dean.

Original Atlantic Records promo poster.
24"x35"

Special double-sided promo poster (the Yes logo is on the reverse) for the band's 1991 mega-compilation. The stunning artwork by Roger Dean, 'YELLOW CITY', is rated by many as his finest ever.

£120.00.




JOY DIVISION - SUBSTANCE, 1988.

Original Factory promo poster, 20"x30".
Art Direction Peter Saville, Photography Trevor Key, Typography Brett Wickens.

The image is a detail from a 1981 work by Dutch sculptor Jan Van Munster - 'Energie-Piek ijs'.


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JOY DIVISION - UNKNOWN PLEASURES, 1979.

Original 1980 first release Factory Australia promo poster (FACOZ 1003), 19.5"x28".
Design by Peter Saville and Joy Division.

A true icon of graphic design for an album of equal repute. The image was found in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy by guitarist Barney Sumner, originally black lines on a white background. It shows exactly 100 successive pulses from the first Pulsar discovered, CP 1919, in 1967.


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QUADROPHENIA, 1979.

Special soundtrack poster, 20"x30".
Photography by Frank Connor.

Scarce poster with the Levis logo bottom left. Excellent image, which shows four quadrophenic images of Jimmy.

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SPARKS - BIG BEAT, 1976

Original Columbia promo poster.
23.5"x23.5"

Wonderfully classical portrait of the most unorthodox pair imaginable.



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