Record sleeve
Dick Zimmerman (b.1942)
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
Apr 1982 - Nov 1982
Materials
Cardboard record sleeve
Measurements
315 x 313 mm; 628 mm (Width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672643.2
Summary
A cardboard sleeve for a vinyl record, the album ‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson. The gatefold style sleeve features an image of a reclining Michael Jackson dressed in a white suit and black zip up top on its front cover, with the artists name and the album title printed in the top left corner. The rear of the sleeve has a list of the song titles on the record with production and copyright credits printed below. In the rear top right hand corner, the records catalogue number (EPC 85930) is printed. This number is also printed on the spine of the sleeve along with the artists name and the title of the record. The inside of the sleeve features a wider version of the image from the front cover, with a tiger resting on Jacksons right knee. The front cover and inside images were both taken by the photographer Dick Zimmerman.
Provenance
Cardboard sleeve for the vinyl record Thriller by Michael Jackson released by Epic on November 29th 1982, with photographs taken by Dick Zimmerman. Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood via Discogs on 6th March 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.
Makers and roles
Dick Zimmerman (b.1942), photographer Epic Records, record label