The Editors|Observer Quarterly
June 17, 2016
King of Pop
The album sleeve as we know it today— and have known it since its introduction in the early 1940s — was the invention and passion of Alex Steinweiss, whose desire to pair art and music (and sell more records for his employer Columbia Records) was as much human nature as it was good business.
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