- Paul Whitehead
Paul Whitehead is a painter and graphic artist known for his surrealistic album covers for artists on the
Charisma Records label in the 1970s, such as Genesis andVan der Graaf Generator .An art show in
London in the mid-sixties, led to Whitehead being picked up as an in-house artist for the London office ofJazz record labelLiberty Records . The first record cover he designed was for a repackagedFats Domino album. This was followed by a series of work for other reissues for the UK market.In 1968, Whitehead became the original art director for "Time Out in London" magazine. This job led to further commissions for album covers.
After a meeting with producer John Anthony, Whitehead was introduced to the band Genesis. He was hired to do the cover to their 1970 album, Trespass. The band's record label, Charisma Records, gave Whitehead complete creative control over his work. Fruitful work in collaboration with Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Lindisfarne, and
Peter Hammill followed at Charisma. Whitehead is also credited with playing the drums on the Peter Hammill album Fool's Mate and percussion on In Camera.Since moving from the UK to the
United States , Whitehead has continued to work on album covers. He has also done murals and designed corporate logos. He is still most associated withProgressive rock , and designed the 2000 logo forNEARfest .elected list of album covers
=Genesis=*1970 "Trespass"
*1971 "Nursery Cryme "
*1972 "Foxtrot"Van der Graaf Generator *1970 "
H to He, Who Am the Only One "
*1971 "Pawn Hearts "Peter Hammill *1971 "Fool's Mate"
*1973 "Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night "Le Orme *1975 "Smogmagica"
*2001 "Elementi"
*2004 "L'infinito"Miscellaneous
*1971 "Illusion", Renaissance
*1975 "Myopia",Tom Fogerty
*2001 "Submarine Silence", [http://www.cristianoroversi.com/subsilence.htm]
*2004 "The Colossus of Rhodes",Various Artists (Colossus/Musea) References
* [http://www.paulwhitehead.com/ official site]
* [http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/paulw.htm interview]
* [http://www.worldofgenesis.com/PaulWhiteheadInt.htm World of Genesis interview]
* [http://madaboutasia.blogspot.com/2008/09/paul-whitehead-turns-it-on-again-for.html Paul Whitehead Turns It On Again for Genesis]
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