I loved Roger Dean’s cover art as a kid rummaging through classic record collections in the 1970’s 80’s His work really stood out. It inspired me to be a an artist and painter myself.
Wow! I love artwork on CDs/albums! Thank you for this video! The artwork is so cool, it's hot and spot on! I'm looking forward to your next video/review!🎤🎸🎵🥁
There's a book I might still own called The Album Cover Album. Bought it decades ago and it has not only Roger Dean's work but others as well. Great book.
I had the pleasure of meeting Roger on the Royal Affair tour. Super nice gentlemen and an amazing artist! My favorite of his is the Asia album and The Magician's Birthday.
When I was around 14 years old I got hold of all the artwork from ‘Yessongs’ by Yes in poster form. Bedroom walls instantly transformed. They lasted a couple of years until I obtained my life size poster of Kate Bush in a leotard.
OK, don't kill me.......but I wish you had included "Close to The Edge". Not only is it my fave Yes album, and fave album of all time by any band, but I love the cover the best of any of them. Not only did I, of course, love the gatefold, but I actually loved the front cover! Also, I loved that Dean hand-wrote the lyrics sheet/notes/credits. I enjoyed looking at all the different Dean work!
@@mvunit3 It was truly unique! I didn't even really know about calligraphy until that album! I don't really know why I did not know, since I took art for 3 years in high school.
@@MissAstorDancer Thats my education as well ;). The only classes I ever liked in school, the rest was unfortunately a waste of life, too bad I never went to a all Art school. But unfortunately, there is no appreciation for the craft anymore, logo and cover artists don't make the big money anymore without the bigger labels backing them :(. Even Roger sells his "preliminary sketches" these days. Concept Designers out of art colleges, currently make what us veterans made back in the 90's. The studios have them do lots more, for the same pay when we "specialized" in certain design aspects of film or video games :/.
I know you saw The Royal Affair at Bethel Woods and I was there too and I had an amazing time. Talked with Roger for 30-45 minutes and he was blown away by my knowledge of music as I am 16. Mr.Dean not only signed my poster for the VIP but he also signed vinyl copies of Tales, Drama and Yessongs, the latter of which I had the whole band sign and I gave to my music teacher. Such a great show. I loved his artwork he had on display, especially the Badger one.
I am a BIG fan of OSIBISA, and I was very well aware of the artwork by Roger Dean on their first two albums. I see that the CD versions You have are cluttered with text, especially on the back. The VINYL LP versions are NOT cluttered, they are gatefold, and when they (first 2 albums) are opened up, the artwork is SPECTACULAR! Thanks!
I was studying art in college some years ago and when I informed our tutor that I liked Roger Dean's art-work he almost had a fit and started swearing , throwing his hands up and his head back whilst he exclaimed ... 'Why do students always like Roger Dean ?'
Rodger Dean is definitely my favorite artist. But, Rodger Dean did not do the artwork for John Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow album. It was David Fairbrother Roe.
Cristian Varga those I think were the only ones I ever came across .. could never find out anything more on that guy. the Hair of the Dog one is super cool, the back I think is even better on the vinyl, always breaks my brain how they work both as squares AND a gatefold. No Mean City as well.
I understand how you have not been a fan of most of the later releases of yes studio albums. I too was in that same mindset. However, seeing how your a big fan of the Drama album you really should give Fly From Here - Return Trip a few listens. I enjoy it more every time I listen to it. In case you missed it, it's basically a re-release of Fly From Here but with Trevor Horn doing the vocals, along with the majority of it being remixed, and including an additional Steve Howe song that he sings. Seeing how the majority of the songs were written by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, its another album by the Drama line-up of the band, as a tribute to Chris Squire, due to his death something they would not be able to do again. You really owe it to one of your favorite bands to give that version a few listens if you have not, pick it up.
Roger Dean's artwork always feels like peering through a window into some strange mystical world. Sometimes I wish that I could just live in one of those beautiful Roger Dean landscapes.
I'm so fortunate to have his studio only just down the road at Fletching Green and to visit his workshops .. My bedroom wall was covered with posters of his stuff and I had the Yes logo hand drawn on my school books and was pleased and amazed to see Saskia, my daughter, with the same thing on hers ... lol ... :-)
My older brother gave me the first Roger Dean "Views" Book from Dragons Dream, publishing. This was when I was 13, which blew Me into a Whole New World of Art and Music! At that time I was just in a world of RUSH, Triumph and KISS.. Thank You, Brother! I learned about YES, Uriah Heep and others because of that book.. :-)
I lived for years in a remote, mountainous and very green region of Spain called Asturias. I used to say to my family 'it,s like living in a Roger Dean painting'.
Relayer is definitely where it's at for me, that cover is STUNNING, so majestic. Also, I like snakes =D Close To The Edge is no doubt the most simple, unassuming cover he ever did, but imagine being a budding Yes fan in 1972, buying that album after really liking Fragile, being a bit underwhelmed by the actual cover and then opening up the gatefold and feasting your eyes on the inner sleeve picture. I sort of did have that experience myself in 2004 when I first bought CTTE but in my case it was the smaller CD version, of course. Still, that lovely gatefold drawing is one of my favs for sure.
Roger Dean from those classic yes and Uriah Heep..and the late Storm Thorgorson of Hipgnosis made some of my favorite album covers for years😊 of course I also some of my other favorite created album covers back in the day where the classic country ones of the late 60s through mid-70s.. where are the settings look like they were cheating on their spouse loool😆
That was fun, thanks Pete. I do think Roger Dean's artwork improved with each decade, so that his latter album covers have become my favorites. They are absolutely stunning!
My favorite Roger Dean covers have been the ones where the the landscapes are more ambiguous and less define. Having said that, everything he did was distinct and head and shoulders above most other album artwork. P.S. I thought for sure you would have featured Budgie.
Scott McGregor I think that’s really true. I liked his art when he basically concentrated on landscapes and architecture. His stage designs for Yes in the 1970s were extraordinary too.
I’m with you (and Roger) Pete, Octopus is my fave, but Relayer is a close second for sure ! I met Roger at Newrfest as well (can’t recall which one now it’s been a long while) really nice approachable guy !
If you like Sci-fi fantasy art look at this video it shows some of Rodney Matthews' work. He designed Asia's Aqua, Arena, And Both Archiva vol 1 and vol 2. and Asia, Different Worlds Live czcams.com/video/ZCuGAfBYl0Y/video.html&feature=emb_logo
Without a doubt, Roger Dean is the most well-known Artist for his album art contributions for various artists. Probably has done more than any other artist also. The other big one was a group of 3 people known as Hipgnosis. Some of my favorite album art other than the above 2 mentioned major contributors are . . . ELP's Brain Salad Surgery by H. R. Giger King Crimson's In The Court of The Crimson King by Barry Godber King Crimson's In the Wake of Poseidon by Tammo De Jongh Cream's Disraeli Gears by Martin Sharp Blue Öyster Cult's 1st album by Bill Gawlik Blue Öyster Cult's On Your Feet or on Your Knees by John Berg Blue Öyster Cult's Cultösaurus Erectus by Richard Clifton-Dey Blue Öyster Cult's Fire of Unknown Origin by Greg Scott The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth The Beatles' Abbey Road by John Kosh Led Zeppelin's 1st album by Sam Shere Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti by Peter Corriston Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door by Storm Thorgerson
@@roxannewalsh Storm Thorgerson is credited for designing it, however, he was with Hipgnosis at the time, and it is listed as a Hipgnosis project. Hipgnosis dissolved in 1983. Led Zep's Coda album art was the last Album cover designed by Hipgnosis. As I said above there were 3 people in Hipgnosis originally founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, later added Peter Christopherson in 1974.
The gatefold interior artwork for Close to the Edge is so special to me and really drew me in when I was first discovering Yes. I ended getting a 3/4 tattoo sleeve done which is heavily inspired by that painting with some inspiration from Relayer.
Ahh, I was waiting to see if you'd include AD INFINITUM! That is one of my desert island discs!! Like a long-lost Yes-Genesis collaboration. Just played it a few weeks ago. Perfection...
Never noticed until I purchased Demons and Wizards on LP recently-the phallus and female genitalia/cave. I was stunned I had never noticed it before! Killer artist-one of my favorites!
Talking about album art brings back memories of a different attitude towards albums you bought in general. For me it connects to a time when you could not get every bit of music at any given place or time by a simple download. Often you did not even know about a new release until you took a trip to a record store and searched through the new arrivals. The cover many times was the introduction to an album, especially when you preferred music from artists that had no chart hits and therefore were rarely played on the radio. The cover art and other information on the cover was the introduction to an album before you decided to buy and listen to it. That first listen to a new purchase was always with the album cover in hand and studying every detail of it. That was an important part of acquainting yourself to a new companion, because this is what a new LP meant to me at the time. Yes, today I have my albums in CD format and I also ripped my rare LPs that I could not find as CDs to flac-files but sometimes I miss the old rituals that were connected with the LP + cover medium. And I often find myself thinking and talking in the LP format, e.g. track 4 is the last of side 1 of that album and track 5 is actually track 1 of side 2. In a record shop you always recognised a Roger Dean cover and it made me look at the record even if I did not know the artist. It was a first indication that the sleeve might contain something I might like. Very often it was true.
Your comments took me back to my teenage years. The 70's and 80's will never be topped. Spending hours on a Saturday afternoon in the record store going through every single one.
I remember discovering Asia at 15 or 16 years old. It was their third album - Astra. Not only was I captivated by the music, I was also mesmerized by the purple science-fiction cover with a cool robot on it.
Good show Pete. I’d love to see one about Hugh Syme who’s created some pretty cool album covers over the years. The Olias of Sunhillow artwork isn’t Roger Dean though, it’s by David Fairbrother-Roe.
I love the Work of Roger Dean, My first contact was with Uriah Heep and Yes albuns. The Two Covers he designed for Budgie are really cool too!! Underrated Band Budgie
I hear it more about the artwork for Fragile.., But it is so cool and wel done artwork.., and i like the use of the beautiful colors around the globe I love it,, have it to wear as t shirt ! thank you for this great video.. love and cheers my friend
Cool idea for a series Pete! Love it, love it, love it! 🥰 The beauty of cover art is it can be interpreted countless ways. Gentle Giant Octopus looks incredible! Absolutely terrifying! Good luck finding your Badger CD 🤞 My favorite cover art probably comes from Frank Zappa's discography. He thought of some really creative designs 😍 I can see you discussing Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills cover art since it looks similar to a comic book
Reminds me that I should have taken pictures of my college dorm room with all the promo posters that a buddy of mine at the local record shop shot my way. Great trip down memory lane Pete.
Hey Pete, hope you are well. I'm not normally a compilation album guy but I did pick up a copy of classic yes from 1981 a few years ago and I gotta say it has fantastic artwork on the inside of the booklet of a long bridge cutting through some trees. Definitely Roger Dean at his best
I’ve always loved the first Virgin record label art by Roger, as well as his work on the second album by Gracious!, “This is Gracious!”, and Magna Carta’s “Lord of the Ages”.
I just Love great albumcovers and in the Hard Rock and Progressive Rock genres there are so many great artist and art work. It's just as importent to have a great cover as the music on them. Popmusic's foto orientet are just boring and has no fantasy to it. Great to see this carry on.
I've always loved Roger Dean's art. Amazing. One technical note, I don't know how you're encoding your videos, but I can't hear the audio if I'm using an external audio interface in my studio. I can only hear it when switching to the internal speakers in my Mac. I don't have the this problem with any other videos or the ads that play before this one. I don't know if anyone else has had this problem. Thanks.
First Roger Dean album i owned was Uriah Heep’s Demons and Wizards.Loved the album and cover so much that I went straight out and bought Magicians Birthday
Roger signed my Asia poster and his two books in the 90’s at at a Philly record store. As a high school art teacher I always showed Roger’s art when my students did surrealism illustration.
Rodney’s work on the Magnum albums is great, I would add Mark Wilkinson, and Bruce Pennington, along with Necrolord (mainly death and black metal bands but stellar stuff), Zdislaw Becksinski and Travis Smith as other faves !
@@GMHG777 - "Chase the Dragon", "On a Storytellers Night" and "The 11th Hour" (especially) are the reason I bought those Magnum albums, and Chase the Dragon made me a fan of their music :). I know Mark and Bruce's work, and Travis work has really made its way since doing covers for Opeth, and he even manipulated one of my Logos for a Thrash band. I need to checkout Zdislaw and Necrolord.
Oh jeez! I know their work as well! I especially like "Kristian Wåhlin" latest artworks for "Witherfall", very intricate. Zdislaw's art is VERY unique and recognized it right off :D.
Same here I bought Storyteller Night solely based on the killer artwork, some thing to Script and Wilkinson. Thankfully both worked out fantastically ! Necrolord he done King Diamond, Emperor, Dissection, lots of cool stuff, and Becksinski’s material has been hot the last several years with bunches of metal bands, Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper being a fave !
Found a copy of the album Bootleg Him, by Alexis Korner. Kind of an early one. Love that Palladin cover. Had had the Views and Magnetic Storm books for years. He really took off in the late 80s and early 90s doing much more painterly stuff. Great artist. Don't listen to the haters!
You know I'm a hugh fan of Roger Deans artwork myself...and if you can find it... there's a book that came out in the 70's called "Views" that really does justice to all his best work...and that's all you need cause the book is a big as a record album and you get to see his art In a larger format.
Loved the video. I’ve always liked the album cover art. Questions: Do you know who did the cover art for Spooky Tooth - The Lost Puff and the Graeme Edge Band - Kick off your Boots.
Aahhhh..... Roger Dean. One of my favorite artists, always just loved his work. I had a period in my early 20's where my walls were plastered with huge Roger Dean posters (later to be replaced with Salvadore Dali). So unique and creative. Within minutes of the start of watching Avatar I knew where the artwork (or inspiration for it) came from, even though Dean wasn't involved. Dean actually sued James Cameron for stealing his work but lost. Just the best stuff man.
One Live Badger by Badger is one of my favorites by him. He had it on display at Bethel and I asked him about it and he informed me of its origin. I had forgot Tony Kaye had a band called Badger
In the mid-late ‘70s a couple of large format coffee table books of Roger’s artwork and set designs were produced. One of my cousins had them. Wish I’d been able to afford them back then!
A couple I like that you didn't mention are Earth & Fire's debut and the inner gatefold of Close to the Edge. I had that album on my iPod for years and always thought the album art was pretty lame but I changed my mind once I bought it on vinyl!
The Jon Anderson album was done by David Fairbrother-Roe, not Roger Dean. I got into Yes when a friend gave me the Roger Dean book 'Magnetic Storm' for my 18th Birthday. The music lived up to the artwork, thankfully... never looked back.
Dean was a huge influence on me. I can't say I ever made anything anywhere close to his level but he really got my imagination going. He got me to look at landscapes as something exciting all on their own, not just as a setting for the action. I don't know why James Cameron copied his style for Avatar instead of just hiring him.
What do the floating rocks mean? Don't know! And Pete is so cool not to pretend that he knows. But great album art that we could explore and contemplate while listening to the album.
An earlier Roger Dean cover that is often overlooked because it is quite different in style is the 1971 Atomic Rooster album ‘In Hearing Of’. It’s also a great album - arguably the best by the band (alongside ‘Death Walks Behind You’). www.discogs.com/Atomic-Rooster-In-Hearing-Of/release/518871 For those who collect Roger Dean artwork, there is even a set of postage stamps (some taken from album cover designs) commissioned by the Isle of Man Post Office - called The Island and Bridges Set. (For non-Brits who may not be aware - The Isle of Man is an island in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.) www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/collection/islands-and-bridges---the-art-of-roger-dean/islands-and-bridges-set/
I think I read that the Relayer cover was done in pencil. And some of the reddish hue was actually rusty water. I think I read this on Dean's website...maybe..
I loved Roger Dean’s cover art as a kid rummaging through classic record collections in the 1970’s 80’s His work really stood out. It inspired me to be a an artist and painter myself.
Wow! I love artwork on CDs/albums! Thank you for this video! The artwork is so cool, it's hot and spot on! I'm looking forward to your next video/review!🎤🎸🎵🥁
There's a book I might still own called The Album Cover Album. Bought it decades ago and it has not only Roger Dean's work but others as well. Great book.
I just saw this and wanted to let you know in case you didn't that there was a second volume of the Album Cover Album.. As good as the first.
@@earlecrocker2791 Thanks.
I had the pleasure of meeting Roger on the Royal Affair tour. Super nice gentlemen and an amazing artist! My favorite of his is the Asia album and The Magician's Birthday.
tales of topographic oceans from yes was another really cool Roger Dean one
When I was around 14 years old I got hold of all the artwork from ‘Yessongs’ by Yes in poster form. Bedroom walls instantly transformed. They lasted a couple of years until I obtained my life size poster of Kate Bush in a leotard.
Same here - The Yessongs when I was 14. Kate Bush was not my cup of tea, but for probably obvious reasons we differ on that...
OK, don't kill me.......but I wish you had included "Close to The Edge". Not only is it my fave Yes album, and fave album of all time by any band, but I love the cover the best of any of them. Not only did I, of course, love the gatefold, but I actually loved the front cover! Also, I loved that Dean hand-wrote the lyrics sheet/notes/credits.
I enjoyed looking at all the different Dean work!
The calligraphy he created for the lyric sheet inspired me to change the way I handwrit everything at the age of 17 :p.
@@mvunit3 It was truly unique! I didn't even really know about calligraphy until that album! I don't really know why I did not know, since I took art for 3 years in high school.
@@MissAstorDancer Thats my education as well ;). The only classes I ever liked in school, the rest was unfortunately a waste of life, too bad I never went to a all Art school. But unfortunately, there is no appreciation for the craft anymore, logo and cover artists don't make the big money anymore without the bigger labels backing them :(. Even Roger sells his "preliminary sketches" these days. Concept Designers out of art colleges, currently make what us veterans made back in the 90's. The studios have them do lots more, for the same pay when we "specialized" in certain design aspects of film or video games :/.
The colors that are used on that cover are literally my favorite colors I love it
Have to throw Yes Drama cover in there as well.
I know you saw The Royal Affair at Bethel Woods and I was there too and I had an amazing time. Talked with Roger for 30-45 minutes and he was blown away by my knowledge of music as I am 16. Mr.Dean not only signed my poster for the VIP but he also signed vinyl copies of Tales, Drama and Yessongs, the latter of which I had the whole band sign and I gave to my music teacher. Such a great show. I loved his artwork he had on display, especially the Badger one.
I am a BIG fan of OSIBISA, and I was very well aware of the artwork by Roger Dean on their first two albums. I see that the CD versions You have are cluttered with text, especially on the back. The VINYL LP versions are NOT cluttered, they are gatefold, and when they (first 2 albums) are opened up, the artwork is SPECTACULAR! Thanks!
Roger Dean and Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson are the greatest ever... What a fabulous art they created. Pure Poetry!!
I was studying art in college some years ago and when I informed our tutor that I liked Roger Dean's art-work he almost had a fit and started swearing , throwing his hands up and his head back whilst he exclaimed ... 'Why do students always like Roger Dean ?'
Rodger Dean is definitely my favorite artist. But, Rodger Dean did not do the artwork for John Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow album. It was David Fairbrother Roe.
That's right. I have the vinyl copy and dug it out before watching this. Although there is a thank you to Roger Dean inside the gatefold.
Thanks for that. I always thought he had done that album. Completely inspired by him no doubt!
exactly. he did Nazareth "Hair of the dog" too among other stuff
@@seaoftranquilityprog The cover art is of an ornithopter... a flying machine that basically 'flaps it's wings.'
Cristian Varga those I think were the only ones I ever came across .. could never find out anything more on that guy. the Hair of the Dog one is super cool, the back I think is even better on the vinyl, always breaks my brain how they work both as squares AND a gatefold. No Mean City as well.
I understand how you have not been a fan of most of the later releases of yes studio albums. I too was in that same mindset. However, seeing how your a big fan of the Drama album you really should give Fly From Here - Return Trip a few listens. I enjoy it more every time I listen to it. In case you missed it, it's basically a re-release of Fly From Here but with Trevor Horn doing the vocals, along with the majority of it being remixed, and including an additional Steve Howe song that he sings. Seeing how the majority of the songs were written by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, its another album by the Drama line-up of the band, as a tribute to Chris Squire, due to his death something they would not be able to do again. You really owe it to one of your favorite bands to give that version a few listens if you have not, pick it up.
Roger Dean's artwork always feels like peering through a window into some strange mystical world. Sometimes I wish that I could just live in one of those beautiful Roger Dean landscapes.
I'm so fortunate to have his studio only just down the road at Fletching Green and to visit his workshops .. My bedroom wall was covered with posters of his stuff and I had the Yes logo hand drawn on my school books and was pleased and amazed to see Saskia, my daughter, with the same thing on hers ... lol ... :-)
My older brother gave me the first Roger Dean "Views" Book from Dragons Dream, publishing. This was when I was 13, which blew Me into a Whole New World of Art and Music! At that time I was just in a world of RUSH, Triumph and KISS.. Thank You, Brother! I learned about YES, Uriah Heep and others because of that book.. :-)
One of his greatest album covers is Space Hymns by Ramases. Absolutely stunning and it's an amazing album as well.
I lived for years in a remote, mountainous and very green region of Spain called Asturias. I used to say to my family 'it,s like living in a Roger Dean painting'.
The artwork suffered when we left LPs and went to cassettes and CDs.
Great video.
Great show Pete! Really loved it. And so many memories of sitting in my room admiring gatefold sleeves. Thanks!
Olias of Sunhillow! Argh... Loved that sleeve. Had some texture to it. Really missing gatefolds now. Digipacks just are not the same
Caspar Bielok Olias was not Roger Dean, though. Roger was committed on other projects and the artwork was done by David Fairbrother-Roe.
@@DpHsHd something new is learned everyday!
I used to copy Roger Dean artwork. Love him. Have a book of all his artwork which he signed for my Dad.
Fantastic topic! Thanks so much for starting this.
awesome vid Pete, yeah man, Dean is the shit!!!!!!!!! have always been totally blown away with his work.
Relayer is definitely where it's at for me, that cover is STUNNING, so majestic. Also, I like snakes =D Close To The Edge is no doubt the most simple, unassuming cover he ever did, but imagine being a budding Yes fan in 1972, buying that album after really liking Fragile, being a bit underwhelmed by the actual cover and then opening up the gatefold and feasting your eyes on the inner sleeve picture. I sort of did have that experience myself in 2004 when I first bought CTTE but in my case it was the smaller CD version, of course. Still, that lovely gatefold drawing is one of my favs for sure.
love the covers..keep 'em comin'.....
Loved it so much, got a big wall calendar every year of his artwork.
Glad you finally decided to do album covers I suggested this back over a year ago in one of your questions and answers videos.
THE LAST ARMADA WAS A POSTER I HAD WITH THE BUTTERFLIES IN SPACE
I would love to see classic jazz album covers. Blue Note, ECM,even Columbia jazz had some great distinct style.
Roger Dean from those classic yes and Uriah Heep..and the late Storm Thorgorson of Hipgnosis made some of my favorite album covers for years😊
of course I also some of my other favorite created album covers back in the day where the classic country ones of the late 60s through mid-70s.. where are the settings look like they were cheating on their spouse loool😆
Fantastic show! More like this...
That was fun, thanks Pete. I do think Roger Dean's artwork improved with each decade, so that his latter album covers have become my favorites. They are absolutely stunning!
Excellent Pete. Thank you. I met Roger on the last Yes tour. He graciously signed the tour poster and was such a gentleman.
My favorite Roger Dean covers have been the ones where the the landscapes are more ambiguous and less define. Having said that, everything he did was distinct and head and shoulders above most other album artwork.
P.S. I thought for sure you would have featured Budgie.
Crap!!!! Forgot those!!!
@@seaoftranquilityprog I don't mean to rub it in, But Badger also comes to mind.
Scott McGregor Pete couldn’t find his One Live Badger cd... but the Budgie omission made me laugh - Pete’s memory is not infallible after all!
@@DpHsHd oh I totally relate. Hell, I forgot about him mentioning "One Live Badger" at the beginning of the video.😅
Scott McGregor I think that’s really true. I liked his art when he basically concentrated on landscapes and architecture. His stage designs for Yes in the 1970s were extraordinary too.
Great theme, thanx for the show !
I’m with you (and Roger) Pete, Octopus is my fave, but Relayer is a close second for sure ! I met Roger at Newrfest as well (can’t recall which one now it’s been a long while) really nice approachable guy !
Thanks for featuring the work of one of my favorite artists. Other than the Olias miss, another fine video Pete.
Thank you!! I really enjoyed this video. Roger Dean was the reason I studied graphic design.
My honorable mentions are Asia Astra and Aqua albums. Especially Astra. Would be curious to see more of his sci-fi oriented art.
Aqua was done by Rodney Matthews ;) Checkout his art as well!
If you like Sci-fi fantasy art look at this video it shows some of Rodney Matthews' work. He designed Asia's Aqua, Arena, And Both Archiva vol 1 and vol 2. and Asia, Different Worlds Live czcams.com/video/ZCuGAfBYl0Y/video.html&feature=emb_logo
Without a doubt, Roger Dean is the most well-known Artist for his album art contributions for various artists. Probably has done more than any other artist also. The other big one was a group of 3 people known as Hipgnosis.
Some of my favorite album art other than the above 2 mentioned major contributors are . . .
ELP's Brain Salad Surgery by H. R. Giger
King Crimson's In The Court of The Crimson King by Barry Godber
King Crimson's In the Wake of Poseidon by Tammo De Jongh
Cream's Disraeli Gears by Martin Sharp
Blue Öyster Cult's 1st album by Bill Gawlik
Blue Öyster Cult's On Your Feet or on Your Knees by John Berg
Blue Öyster Cult's Cultösaurus Erectus by Richard Clifton-Dey
Blue Öyster Cult's Fire of Unknown Origin by Greg Scott
The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth
The Beatles' Abbey Road by John Kosh
Led Zeppelin's 1st album by Sam Shere
Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti by Peter Corriston
Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door by Storm Thorgerson
I think that Storm Thorgerson was part of Hipgnosis.
@@roxannewalsh Storm Thorgerson is credited for designing it, however, he was with Hipgnosis at the time, and it is listed as a Hipgnosis project. Hipgnosis dissolved in 1983. Led Zep's Coda album art was the last Album cover designed by Hipgnosis. As I said above there were 3 people in Hipgnosis originally founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, later added Peter Christopherson in 1974.
Good solid list, but I also would have included BOC's Extraterrestrial Live by Greg Scott.
The gatefold interior artwork for Close to the Edge is so special to me and really drew me in when I was first discovering Yes. I ended getting a 3/4 tattoo sleeve done which is heavily inspired by that painting with some inspiration from Relayer.
Hi Pete. Really cool idea to feature the fantastic Roger Dean. Babe Ruth - First Base one of my faves.
awesome show, always respected Roger Dean as the greatest album artist of all time. Relayer is probably my favourite album cover of all time
Ahh, I was waiting to see if you'd include AD INFINITUM! That is one of my desert island discs!! Like a long-lost Yes-Genesis collaboration. Just played it a few weeks ago. Perfection...
Never noticed until I purchased Demons and Wizards on LP recently-the phallus and female genitalia/cave. I was stunned I had never noticed it before! Killer artist-one of my favorites!
Talking about album art brings back memories of a different attitude towards albums you bought in general. For me it connects to a time when you could not get every bit of music at any given place or time by a simple download. Often you did not even know about a new release until you took a trip to a record store and searched through the new arrivals. The cover many times was the introduction to an album, especially when you preferred music from artists that had no chart hits and therefore were rarely played on the radio. The cover art and other information on the cover was the introduction to an album before you decided to buy and listen to it.
That first listen to a new purchase was always with the album cover in hand and studying every detail of it. That was an important part of acquainting yourself to a new companion, because this is what a new LP meant to me at the time.
Yes, today I have my albums in CD format and I also ripped my rare LPs that I could not find as CDs to flac-files but sometimes I miss the old rituals that were connected with the LP + cover medium. And I often find myself thinking and talking in the LP format, e.g. track 4 is the last of side 1 of that album and track 5 is actually track 1 of side 2.
In a record shop you always recognised a Roger Dean cover and it made me look at the record even if I did not know the artist. It was a first indication that the sleeve might contain something I might like. Very often it was true.
Your comments took me back to my teenage years. The 70's and 80's will never be topped. Spending hours on a Saturday afternoon in the record store going through every single one.
I remember discovering Asia at 15 or 16 years old. It was their third album - Astra. Not only was I captivated by the music, I was also mesmerized by the purple science-fiction cover with a cool robot on it.
Good show Pete. I’d love to see one about Hugh Syme who’s created some pretty cool album covers over the years.
The Olias of Sunhillow artwork isn’t Roger Dean though, it’s by David Fairbrother-Roe.
Love this Pete who's the next one ? Pete you left out the gateway fold from close to the edge
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I love the Work of Roger Dean, My first contact was with Uriah Heep and Yes albuns.
The Two Covers he designed for Budgie are really cool too!!
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Love Dean's work I have his whole card set. his Virgin Rec. logo is one of my favorite pieces of his with the girl and the red dragon.
I hear it more about the artwork for Fragile.., But it is so cool and wel done artwork.., and i like the use of the beautiful colors around the globe
I love it,, have it to wear as t shirt ! thank you for this great video.. love and cheers my friend
Very good idea Pete. Never seen the octopus cover before but have to agree with you it’s amazing. How about music tshirts you own show one day
Cool idea for a series Pete! Love it, love it, love it! 🥰 The beauty of cover art is it can be interpreted countless ways. Gentle Giant Octopus looks incredible! Absolutely terrifying! Good luck finding your Badger CD 🤞 My favorite cover art probably comes from Frank Zappa's discography. He thought of some really creative designs 😍 I can see you discussing Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills cover art since it looks similar to a comic book
Love Roger's art! I just bought the Yessongs LP a little while ago and made sure to find the 4-panel gatefold so I got all the artwork.
Reminds me that I should have taken pictures of my college dorm room with all the promo posters that a buddy of mine at the local record shop shot my way. Great trip down memory lane Pete.
Hey Pete, hope you are well. I'm not normally a compilation album guy but I did pick up a copy of classic yes from 1981 a few years ago and I gotta say it has fantastic artwork on the inside of the booklet of a long bridge cutting through some trees. Definitely Roger Dean at his best
Rainbow Rising my favourite album cover of all time!
I’ve always loved the first Virgin record label art by Roger, as well as his work on the second album by Gracious!, “This is Gracious!”, and Magna Carta’s “Lord of the Ages”.
The Gun album was Roger Dean’s first cover art in case you didn’t know.
I just Love great albumcovers and in the Hard Rock and Progressive Rock genres there are so many great artist and art work. It's just as importent to have a great cover as the music on them. Popmusic's foto orientet are just boring and has no fantasy to it. Great to see this carry on.
Looking at Rogers work is like reading a fantasy novel.
Videos on album cover art is genius! It was a big part of the looking and buying process that kind of died when the CD largely replace the LP.
Dean didn't do Olias! That was Dave Roe, admittedly doing something Dean-like.
Cleaned out a lot of seeds on that yessongs cover. Great memories.
Pretty soon Pete will have 20,000 subscribers !!
Could you do a short video on The Gun? I just loved their first album, "Race with the Devil" and especially "Yellow Cab Man".
I've always loved Roger Dean's art. Amazing.
One technical note, I don't know how you're encoding your videos, but I can't hear the audio if I'm using an external audio interface in my studio. I can only hear it when switching to the internal speakers in my Mac. I don't have the this problem with any other videos or the ads that play before this one. I don't know if anyone else has had this problem. Thanks.
Never heard anyone mention that before.
First Roger Dean album i owned was Uriah Heep’s Demons and Wizards.Loved the album and cover so much that I went straight out and bought Magicians Birthday
Ok...now I'm subscribed! Looking forward to Hipgnosis! Did ya ever see their book?
Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
Yep, COMPLETELY forgot to mention those couple Budgie albums he did!
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Roger signed my Asia poster and his two books in the 90’s at at a Philly record store. As a high school art teacher I always showed Roger’s art when my students did surrealism illustration.
Roger Dean is a favorite artist of mine. Along side Rodney Matthews.
2 main influences of my Logo works :). I love Rodney's versions of "Elric" too!
Rodney’s work on the Magnum albums is great, I would add Mark Wilkinson, and Bruce Pennington, along with Necrolord (mainly death and black metal bands but stellar stuff), Zdislaw Becksinski and Travis Smith as other faves !
@@GMHG777 - "Chase the Dragon", "On a Storytellers Night" and "The 11th Hour" (especially) are the reason I bought those Magnum albums, and Chase the Dragon made me a fan of their music :). I know Mark and Bruce's work, and Travis work has really made its way since doing covers for Opeth, and he even manipulated one of my Logos for a Thrash band. I need to checkout Zdislaw and Necrolord.
Oh jeez! I know their work as well! I especially like "Kristian Wåhlin" latest artworks for "Witherfall", very intricate. Zdislaw's art is VERY unique and recognized it right off :D.
Same here I bought Storyteller Night solely based on the killer artwork, some thing to Script and Wilkinson. Thankfully both worked out fantastically ! Necrolord he done King Diamond, Emperor, Dissection, lots of cool stuff, and Becksinski’s material has been hot the last several years with bunches of metal bands, Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper being a fave !
Found a copy of the album Bootleg Him, by Alexis Korner. Kind of an early one. Love that Palladin cover. Had had the Views and Magnetic Storm books for years. He really took off in the late 80s and early 90s doing much more painterly stuff. Great artist. Don't listen to the haters!
Dude you need the LPs for this one :)
One of my fave cover from Yes is the cover of "Drama"
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Great item, Pete! Love the artwork of Roger Dean & your take on that. What do you think of the artwork by H.R. Giger?
You know I'm a hugh fan of Roger Deans artwork myself...and if you can find it... there's a book that came out in the 70's called "Views" that really does justice to all his best work...and that's all you need cause the book is a big as a record album and you get to see his art In a larger format.
I have One Live Badger, both vinyl and cd. I have an original Gun vinyl. Always enjoy Roger Dean. Get his three books.
One Live Badger....A Roger Dean Classic!
"Sea of Light" is my favorite.
Loved the video. I’ve always liked the album cover art. Questions: Do you know who did the cover art for Spooky Tooth - The Lost Puff and the Graeme Edge Band - Kick off your Boots.
Relayer e fragile as minhas artes favoritas fe roger Dean saido desde brasil
Aahhhh..... Roger Dean. One of my favorite artists, always just loved his work. I had a period in my early 20's where my walls were plastered with huge Roger Dean posters (later to be replaced with Salvadore Dali). So unique and creative. Within minutes of the start of watching Avatar I knew where the artwork (or inspiration for it) came from, even though Dean wasn't involved. Dean actually sued James Cameron for stealing his work but lost. Just the best stuff man.
One Live Badger by Badger is one of my favorites by him. He had it on display at Bethel and I asked him about it and he informed me of its origin. I had forgot Tony Kaye had a band called Badger
He did the last few album covers for Focus.
In the mid-late ‘70s a couple of large format coffee table books of Roger’s artwork and set designs were produced. One of my cousins had them. Wish I’d been able to afford them back then!
One of the books I was thinking of was entitled “Views”. Amazon lists a used hardcover at $511!!!
@@DpHsHd - look for the softcovers, and they were re-issued, so check them out at finer book stores (Barnes & Noble, etc.).
mvunit3 Thanks for the info!!!
A couple I like that you didn't mention are Earth & Fire's debut and the inner gatefold of Close to the Edge. I had that album on my iPod for years and always thought the album art was pretty lame but I changed my mind once I bought it on vinyl!
Never Turn Your Back On a Friend, Relayer, and Close to the Edge are my top 3 Roger Dean covers. Even though CTTE was simple, it was still fantastic
The Jon Anderson album was done by David Fairbrother-Roe, not Roger Dean. I got into Yes when a friend gave me the Roger Dean book 'Magnetic Storm' for my 18th Birthday. The music lived up to the artwork, thankfully... never looked back.
As an artist myself, Roger Dean along with Frank Frazetta are two of my favorite artists.
Loved Asia debut album ,but Octopus Gentle Giant my favourite.
Put the left edge of the back cover of Relayer next to the right edge of the front cover of Tales...the rocks match up!
Dean was a huge influence on me. I can't say I ever made anything anywhere close to his level but he really got my imagination going. He got me to look at landscapes as something exciting all on their own, not just as a setting for the action. I don't know why James Cameron copied his style for Avatar instead of just hiring him.
What do the floating rocks mean? Don't know! And Pete is so cool not to pretend that he knows. But great album art that we could explore and contemplate while listening to the album.
He's also an amazing sculptor, architect, set designer (the giant, laser shooting crab from the Relayer tour)
An earlier Roger Dean cover that is often overlooked because it is quite different in style is the 1971 Atomic Rooster album ‘In Hearing Of’. It’s also a great album - arguably the best by the band (alongside ‘Death Walks Behind You’).
www.discogs.com/Atomic-Rooster-In-Hearing-Of/release/518871
For those who collect Roger Dean artwork, there is even a set of postage stamps (some taken from album cover designs) commissioned by the Isle of Man Post Office - called The Island and Bridges Set.
(For non-Brits who may not be aware - The Isle of Man is an island in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.)
www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/collection/islands-and-bridges---the-art-of-roger-dean/islands-and-bridges-set/
Saga's Images at Twilight and Silent Knight also have some really cool artwork!
I think I read that the Relayer cover was done in pencil. And some of the reddish hue was actually rusty water. I think I read this on Dean's website...maybe..