Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs they address such issues as love life death fashion and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand forAndy Warhol's covers for example including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This special edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist disc jockey journalist and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form. The author: Michael Ochs developed an addiction to rock and roll in the early fifties. To feed his habit Ochs headed the publicity departments of Columbia Shelter and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s. He has also been a disc jockey taught a rock-history course for UCLA and written for such magazines as Rock Melody Maker Cashbox and Crawdaddy. Michael Ochs established the Michael Ochs Archives in the mid-70s. The archives currently house millions of photographs and over 100000 albums and singles.