Celebrity Vinyl
Tom Hamling

Celebrity Vinyl er en påminnelse om hva som skjer når kjente mennesker bestemmer seg for at de burde gi verden en gave i form av sang. Bilder av mer enn 100 albumomslag med kjente artister som Burt Reynolds, Shaquille O’Neal, John Travolta, Eddie Murphy, Leonard Nimoy, Alyssa Milano og mange, mange, fler er suplert av en veldig morsom og insiktsfull billedtekst.

Fra forlaget:
Celebrity Vinyl is a laugh-riot reminder of what happens when famous people decide to (unsuccessfully) give singing a try. The number of celebrities, and pseudo-celebrities, that have indulged such hubris boggles the mind: Burt Reynolds, Shaquille O’Neal, John Travolta, Eddie Murphy, Leonard Nimoy, Alyssa Milano – the list goes on and on, as do the laughs. Over 100 photographs of the album art that houses these celebrity recordings are paired with gut-punch funny captions.
The collection started when the advertising agency that author Tom Hamling worked in elected to transfer its audio library to CDs.
Since then, he has spent close to a decade acquiring celebrity vinyl, rooting through record store bins and traveling to far-flung flea markets. Hamling says of his ongoing quest to collect these curiously compelling objects, “Sometimes I feel like Dr. Richard Kimble
in search of the one-armed man. Except my one-armed man is the inaudible shriek of Jennifer Love Hewitt.”
Celebrity Vinyl is a pop-culture microscope that reveals the nuances and blemishes of vinyl and celebrity cultures from a bygone era. Every example is accompanied by riotously hilarious captions that dissect the album’s artwork and graphic design, as well as the
celebrity in question.

Om forfatteren:
Author Tom Hamling is an award-winning advertising creative director whose client list includes adidas, Heineken, Got Milk?, and LEGO. In addition to owning the world’s best collection of awful celebrity-based music, he is known, in some circles, to do a pretty decent squirrel
call. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Bokinfo
Helbind
over 100 illustrasjoner
128 sider
Format: 234 x 231 mm
Forlag: Mark Batty
ISBN 9780979554629