A couple of weeks ago I was contacted independently by a French guy and an American who lives in Hungary. They tracked me down and both wanted me to do a similar thing , a cover for a CD. Let me explain what led them to me, in the early 1980's I did a number of record covers as they were then known, later CD covers and lyric booklets and other stuff ,for several bands, the "Young Marble Giants", "Weekend ", "The Gist" and later when I had moved to the US, the "Magnetic Fields"
For Weekend I did the album cover "La Variete", some singles covers, a lyric booklet also I did a backdrop they used for a photo shoot and a TV appearance. These various covers seem to have been really beloved by fans, who also love the music. I actually had a few fan letters.
With this request to do two new CD covers I looked through my box marked sketchbooks and found some from that era. Unfortunately all the drawings I did before I left for the US seem to have disappeared. All the many drawings I did of the "Young Marble Giants" on tour in Europe , the UK and the US seem to have gone. I managed to find some images, that I think will work for these new CD's. Quite a coincidence two such requests in the same. This blog should have been posted in July 2016.
