LED ZEPPELIN, PINK FLOYD, THE ROLLING STONES Commemorative Stamps Available For Pre-Order
December 13, 2009, 14 years ago
As previously reported, on January 7th, Royal Mail, Britain's postal service, will be issuing a series of 10 stamps commemorating classic album covers from the last 40 years. According to a Royal Mail press release, the stamps were chosen solely for their art design based on the input of British music editors, design writers and graphic designers. In addition to the album cover art, each stamp depicts a portion of a vinyl record coming out of the sleeve.
"For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world," Julietta Edgar, the Royal Mail's head of special stamps, said in a statement, "and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples."Here is the full list of albums that will be featured on the stamps:
- THE ROLLING STONES' 'Let It Bleed' (1969)- LED ZEPPELIN's untitled fourth album (1971)
- DAVID BOWIE's 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' (1972)
- MIKE OLDFIELD's 'Tubular Bells' (1973)
- THE CLASH's 'London Calling' (1979)
- NEW ORDER's 'Power, Corruption and Lies' (1983)
- PRIMAL SCREAM's 'Screamdelica' (1991)
- PINK FLOYD's 'The Division Bell' (1994)
- BLUR's 'Parklife' (1994)
- COLDPLAYS's 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' (2002)
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