{"id":9899,"date":"2018-10-12T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:40:18","slug":"national-album-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/national-album-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Album Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The album is celebrating its 70th birthday! Saturday 13th October marks the first ever National Album Day, commemorating 70 blissful years of the incredible beauty that is the album.<\/p>\n

To properly celebrate the occasion, an expert panel of judges have compiled a list of 70 iconic album covers from the last 70 years. There are plenty of these incredible classics on our store – just check our National Album Day collection!<\/p>\n

Here’s the list of the 70 most iconic album covers:<\/p>\n

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1950s<\/h3>\n

1949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beethoven – Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major opus 55 (Eroica)
\n1950\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra – Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grof\u00c3\u00a9
\n1951\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bernard Herrmann – The Day The Earth Stood Still
\n1952\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Count Basie – Basie Rides Again!
\n1953\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Duke Ellington – Ellington Uptown
\n1954\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins
\n1955\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ and The Blues
\n1956\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley<\/strong>
\n1957\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard
\n1958\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chuck Willis – Chuck Willis, The King of the Stroll
\n1959\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Billy Mure – Supersonic Guitars Volume I<\/p>\n

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1960s<\/h3>\n

1960 Conjunto Primavera – Bailemos Twist Con Texaco
\n1961 Hi! We’re The Miracles – The Miracles
\n1962 The Beach Boys – Surfin’ Safari
\n1963 Freddie Hubbard – Hub-tones
\n1964 Donald Byrd – A New Perspective
\n1965 Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights
\n1966 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators
\n1967 The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/strong>
\n1968 The Beatles – The White Album
\n1969 Scott Walker – Scott 3<\/p>\n

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1970s<\/h3>\n

1970 Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
\n1971 Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
\n1972 Nick Drake – Pink Moon
\n1973 Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
\n1974 Kraftwerk – Autobahn (UK Edition)
\n1975 Brian Eno – Another Green World
\n1976 Ramones – Ramones<\/strong>
\n1977 Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks
\n1978 Blondie – Parallel Lines
\n1979 Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures<\/p>\n

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1980s<\/h3>\n

1980 The Pop Group – For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
\n1981 Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
\n1982 Duran Duran – Rio
\n1983 Billy Bragg \u201d\u201c Life\u2019s a Riot with Spy vs Spy
\n1984 This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears
\n1985 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Firstborn is Dead
\n1986 Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill
\n1987 The Cure – Kiss me kiss me kiss me
\n1988 Pixies – Surfer Rosa
\n1989 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1990s<\/h3>\n

1990 Sonic Youth – Goo
\n1991 Primal Scream – Screamadelica<\/strong>
\n1992 Tom Waits – Bone Machine
\n1993 Suede – Suede
\n1994 Oasis – Definitely Maybe
\n1995 Aphex Twin – I Care Because You Do
\n1996 DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
\n1997 Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen\u201d\u00a6 We Are Floating in Space
\n1998 Massive Attack – Mezzanine
\n1999 The White Stripes – The White Stripes<\/p>\n

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2000s<\/h3>\n

2000 Goldfrapp- Felt Mountain
\n2001 The Strokes – Is this it (UK Edition)
\n2002 Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
\n2003 Blur – Think Tank
\n2004 Kanye West – The College Dropout
\n2005 Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV
\n2006 Thom Yorke – The Eraser
\n2007 The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Need, Whatever<\/strong>
\n2008 Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
\n2009 Muse – The Resistance<\/p>\n

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2010s<\/h3>\n

2010 Klaxons – Surfing The Void
\n2011 Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
\n2012 The Temper Trap – The Temper Trap
\n2013 White Lies – Big TV
\n2014 Royal Blood – Royal Blood<\/strong>
\n2015 David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock
\n2016 The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect
\n2017 Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 3<\/p>\n

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We hope you enjoy National Album Day! Why not check out our dedicated National Album Day collection on musicMagpie Store?<\/p>\n

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