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Paul Gorman on the Legacy of Barney Bubbles
Thirty-Eight A long time Ago, the excellent, thrilling, daring, tragic, and grievously underappreciated graphic designer Barney Bubbles died. Above the training course of his extraordinary job, he conceptualized visionary album covers for bands ranging from Hawkwind to Elvis Costello to Carlene Carter, and he produced the legendary brand of the NME. To practical experience his get the job done in all of its large comedian and agitprop glory is to be in the existence of a singular and unforgettable sensibility that imprints on your mind as easily as Lichtenstein or Kandinsky. I have wanted to publish a music for Barney Bubbles given that I initial read of him, quite a…