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Stamp Of Approval For Classic Album Covers
Mark Langford, Sky News Online
Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has launched a new set of stamps featuring classic album covers from the last 40 years.
Jimmy Page launches the Royal Mail classic album covers range of stamps
Royal Mail went through thousands of pieces of artwork to draw up a shortlist of 10 for the set, released today.
They include Led Zeppelin IV, the classic 1971 allbum that contained Stairway To Heaven and which sold 32 million copies.
Page, who helped design the artwork for IV, 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."
The stamps depict the covers of albums from the past 40 years including Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, The Division Bell by Pink Floyd and Parklife by Blur.
See all the new stamps here.
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.
"We hope customers will enjoy the opportunity to send or collect these classic album designs in their smallest format yet - as miniature works of art on millions of 1st class stamps."
The other albums featured are: A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay; Power, Corruption And Lies - New Order; Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones; London Calling - The Clash; Screamadelica - Primal Scream; The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
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Mark Langford, Sky News Online
Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has launched a new set of stamps featuring classic album covers from the last 40 years.
Jimmy Page launches the Royal Mail classic album covers range of stamps
Royal Mail went through thousands of pieces of artwork to draw up a shortlist of 10 for the set, released today.
They include Led Zeppelin IV, the classic 1971 allbum that contained Stairway To Heaven and which sold 32 million copies.
Page, who helped design the artwork for IV, 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."
The stamps depict the covers of albums from the past 40 years including Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, The Division Bell by Pink Floyd and Parklife by Blur.
See all the new stamps here.
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.
"We hope customers will enjoy the opportunity to send or collect these classic album designs in their smallest format yet - as miniature works of art on millions of 1st class stamps."
The other albums featured are: A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay; Power, Corruption And Lies - New Order; Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones; London Calling - The Clash; Screamadelica - Primal Scream; The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
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