Poster Child
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A stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock ’n’ roll’s most influential cover artistsBeginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock ’n’ roll. Byrd created poster, concert, and album art for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Traffic, Van Halen, the Grateful Dead, and KISS, among others. In fact, the 1968 poster that Byrd created for the Jimi Hendrix Experience was voted #8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by Billboard. Beyond this, he created the iconic imagery for many Broadway shows, including Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, and more. Byrd is considered one of the foremost graphic artists of 20th-century pop culture, and yet, he has never achieved widespread name recognition. Poster Child shares the artwork of Byrd with incredible accompanying anecdotes about his encounters with rock ’n’ roll legends. Music lovers and cultural connoisseurs alike will gravitate to this book for its visual vibrance and storytelling.
David Edward Byrd is considered one of the foremost graphic artists of the 20th century. Byrd created art for Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Lou Reed, Traffic, Van Halen, and the Grateful Dead, among many others. He lives in Los Angeles. Robert von Goeben has contributed to many publications, including Upside magazine, CNET, HotWired, the Good Men Project, and the Bold Italic. Based in Portland, Oregon, he is the author of seven published books on lifestyle and business, and is also the producer of Deep Cuts Music Trivia, a popular music trivia program. Marc Myers, a music journalist who regularly contributes to the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Why Jazz Happened, Rock Concert: An Oral History and Anatomy of 55 More Songs; and founder of JazzWax, which is a three-time winner of the Jazz Journalist Association’s best blog award. He lives in New York City.