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http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/art/royal+mail+launches+rock+album+stamps/3491252
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Album sales in Britain have fallen for the fifth year running according to new figures out today, but undeterred Royal Mail has released a collectors edition of twelve stamps of classic covers, from The Clash to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. Stephanie West has been speaking to designers behind the famous images.
The Royal Mail's latest set of special stamps showcases artwork made famous on the record sleeves of celebrated rock albums.
With David Bowie featured on one, they challenge the rule that no living personality other than royalty is supposed to appear on a stamp.
The stamps depict the covers of albums from the past forty years, from (relatively) recent hits such as Primal Scream's Screamadelica (released 1991) and Blur's Parklife (1994), to older classics, which include Led Zeppelin's IV (1971) and The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed (1969).
Royal Mail went through thousands of pieces of artwork to draw up a shortlist of ten for the set which is released tomorrow.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who launched the set of stamps today, helped design the artwork for IV, which sold 32 million copies. He said: "Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him - that sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."
Royal Mail's head of special stamps Julietta Edgar said: "For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world, and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples."
In a design twist, the cerrated edge of each stamp is slightly obscured by a hint of black vinyl pertruding from the miniature record sleeve.
Perhaps this drops a hint; that vinyl is now practically obsolete, more a collectors format than a commonplace one, holds with a more general tradition in Royal Mail special edition stamps: celebrating people and things that are no more.
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Album sales in Britain have fallen for the fifth year running according to new figures out today, but undeterred Royal Mail has released a collectors edition of twelve stamps of classic covers, from The Clash to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. Stephanie West has been speaking to designers behind the famous images.
The Royal Mail's latest set of special stamps showcases artwork made famous on the record sleeves of celebrated rock albums.
With David Bowie featured on one, they challenge the rule that no living personality other than royalty is supposed to appear on a stamp.
The stamps depict the covers of albums from the past forty years, from (relatively) recent hits such as Primal Scream's Screamadelica (released 1991) and Blur's Parklife (1994), to older classics, which include Led Zeppelin's IV (1971) and The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed (1969).
Royal Mail went through thousands of pieces of artwork to draw up a shortlist of ten for the set which is released tomorrow.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who launched the set of stamps today, helped design the artwork for IV, which sold 32 million copies. He said: "Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him - that sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."
Royal Mail's head of special stamps Julietta Edgar said: "For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world, and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples."
In a design twist, the cerrated edge of each stamp is slightly obscured by a hint of black vinyl pertruding from the miniature record sleeve.
Perhaps this drops a hint; that vinyl is now practically obsolete, more a collectors format than a commonplace one, holds with a more general tradition in Royal Mail special edition stamps: celebrating people and things that are no more.
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