Mike Goldstein, AlbumCoverHallofFame.com – Larry, I’d like you to think back and tell me how it was that you were first introduced to the notion of doing album artwork for clients in the music business. Was it something you’d set out…
This is one of six covers I did for Boney James and by far the most controversial. We’d met when I was hired to work on the package for his Seduction album and he’d had something in mind – an image of…
I don’t know if any of you reading this have ever had the joy of throwing a cream pie in someone’s face but, as an art director, I have. This is beyond a doubt the funniest photo shoot I ever…
I met Danny Elfman in L.A. in 1985. He told me he had just written some theme music for a new TV show and that he had loved the experience and was looking forward to doing more theme music. I…
I met with the band’s singer and song-writer Adam Duritz at the Geffen Records office on Sunset Blvd. in 1993. We spoke for about an hour and he said the band was signed mainly because of his writing, not his…
It was 1984 and I was in London. Warner Bros. asked me to do the sleeve for next Eric Clapton album and so I met with Eric’s manager at the time, Roger Forrester. Roger said this new album was much…
As I said before, you never know when you are doing the next big album, and Chicago 17 turned out to be their biggest selling album ever. The “Chicago” logo was well established (Editor’s note – originally designed by John Berg and Nick…
About this image – My wife Sandra and I were in Paris, and one night we went to a burlesque club with Mick Fleetwood and his security man, Dennis Dunstan. There was a great atmosphere in the club, a smoke-filled…
About this cover – I was in New York for work but I had some time off, which I spent at an art museum. As I was leaving MOMA, I saw a…
A six week course led by artists Larry Vigon and Thomas Van Stein ‘It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child.’ Pablo Picasso Give yourself permission to put your heart…
